plot so unbelievable and very boring..
592227
over acting big time by davis.  plot so  unbelievable and  very boring...the movie did not make you want to follow alomg in fact, i feel  asleep and it was still on..the end was a dumb ending too so  stupid  don't waste your time its so unbelievanle as a plot.
1632503
How anyone gave this five stars is amazing.  The characters are over-drawn and unbelievable.  The plot bounces around from one unbelievable disaster to another.  The science and medical theories are absurd and numerous plot lines are left hanging.  For instance, one main character is somehow turned into an completely alien being due to something -- a virus? -- acting on his DNA.  Other similar aliens appear throughout the book for no particular reason, with no connections drawn and no resolution of their existence other than as plot fillers.  Several times I stopped reading, resolved not to waste my time further.  Alas, I hate to leave a book in the middle and I drudged through it to the silly ending.  Very poor...
2328121
I really do not understand all the 5 star reviews.  I was completely bored by this book. Usually if the mystery isn't that great at least the humor is there...but this book had neither.  The main plot was underdeveloped and nearly incoherent.  Stephanie still sucks as a bounty hunter which is simply tiring. This series would be so much better if she evolved...at all.  She hasn't matured since book 1.  This whole Ranger/Morelli subplot is old.  Pick already!  It was awesome for awhile that two super hot guys wanted her, but now it is simply ridiculous and she is acting like a sex crazed teenager rather than a woman in her 30's.  Then Diesel??  Really?  His presence was completely unnecessary and now Stephanie is tempted by him too? You've got to be kidding.
The whole "Stephanie can't keep a car" thing....  That gag has been done to death.  There is nothing new or exciting about this book. That characters have not evolved in the slightest.  Don't waste your time.
4033578
I don't get why this is so highly rated.  Sure, it is fairly well written (grammar and editing wise) for a .99 cent book, but holy god the plot is ridiculous!

First off, does no one else think it's weird to hook up with a step brother?  I do.  But I'd be willing to let that go for the sake of fiction.

Second, there were just too many complicated plot details.  Being attracted to your step brother, having a twin sister, mom died from cancer, rich vs. poor, rock star father living a rock star lifestyle, living under the stairs, virginity, evil sister, cheating...Usually you only use one of these and stick with it, but not this author! She throws it all in there and grazes over each of them.  Honestly, half of it was unnecessary and it took me out of the plot.

Third, The only character who is likable is Blair.  You really do feel bad for her and she's so nice even though life handed her a crappy deal...But in the end, the author just turns her into a hussy.  Even the nicer side characters knew about this supposedly giant "secret" (which, btw, is not a secret since EVERYONE knows about it) and no one tells her?  WTF!  That would never happen! If for no other reason, because the secret is so stupid no one even consider keeping it a secret!  Also because the person who they are protecting by keeping it secret is a huge bitch who everyone hates -- you'd think they'd rat her out just to spite her.

Lastly, the plot twist was so strange! So their super convoluted family is even more convoluted?  Who cares?

Honestly, I won't read the next one.  ::SPOILER::  I'm glad she leaves those awful people behind to choke on their hatred and selfishness.  I don't her to go back so I'm leaving it right there.
2550015
this movie is so unbelievable and unrealistic.  The writers know absolutely nothing about racism and discrimination in the real world.  How in the world did this move even get nominated for best pic by the academy, let alone win??  Oh yeah, the academy voters don't watch the movies.  jeez, this movie is pathetic.
561367
This plot was completely unbelievable. The first book was brilliant. The second was very disturbing, but believable. I don't know how the author got so off track. I found it unconvincing that a psychopath would date a woman as a cover story and that her kids would turn out to be young psychopaths and that he would "love" them. But I could wait and see on all that improbability. But an ancient demon that can remote control Dexter and a number of other people? Really? I am so glad I borrowed this from the library. If I had paid I would want my money back.
3303831
Plot is unbelievable.  Boring characters.  Really not up to standard.
560006
I would have given this a 1/2 star it was so bad. I tried to get through 100 pages...but the "science" and boyish 13 year old plot was just too ridiculous. I wanted to like it, but it was one let down after another. A typical plot hole was an Admiral leading an away team...really? Is this Captain Kirk time?? Supposedly professionals yet they do and react like newbies.
Sorry, but good soldiers don't freak that easily, a littke consistency in the very weak science and flag officers don't go on scouting missions. Too much to suspend disbelief. Only select if you WANT to read a teenage concept and laughable characters with no decent concept of a military action/life.
4719033
The best thing I can say is this movie has some retro appeal.  That said, the plot is ridiculously unbelievable.  Even allowing that this is a B movie from the 1950's  I still cannot give it more than 2 stars.  Also, this movie has to have some of the most unattractive people to ever make a film.
3032763
I received and ARC to review and I am leaving a voluntary assessment.

This book had such a convoluted plot that you kept trying to follow down the rabbit hole only to find a dead end. We get to meet our female lead Lily as two gossiping co-workers are maligning her about a possible sexual relationship with her boss James.

We are told many things throughout this story but we are never shown much concrete proof of anything. Its all smoke and mirrors with no real substance.

I applaud the author for wanting to try a different angle with having our two male leads Cameron and Liam overcoming a difficult childhood of being commune escapees.

We find out James is not the good guy that poor Lily is infatuated with when he leaves her alone and goes to go hide in his safe room when Cameron and Liam storm his house.

The kidnapping made no sense at all. If these men were as great as the writing indicated they would have known that he had a safe room and he had an innocent person with him. They take her even thou they can see that James has no regard for her as he left her defenseless and exposed while he hid.

I mean after their childhood they would be super careful to not expose an innocent to the mental trauma that goes along with being kidnapped and possibly hurt even though they knew they were not going to hurt her, she didn't know that.

The author tried to make the characters tough but it comes across very forced and not in keeping with they way they men are portrayed at times. They are obviously not scumbags as they take a somewhat protective stand with Lily even with the growing attraction they all feel towards each other and do not allow themselves to cross the line.

Lily must have been the most repressed twenty four year old virgin before these guys. Once she meets them she becomes sexually world wise and is able to suddenly take care of her bodies needs and her desires for these men have now made her a nymph? She goes from not wanting anyone to get close to her to spilling everything to a person she ignored for years.

There are multiple kidnappings, rescues, sudden sexual knowledge, running away to strange places, plot lines that made no sense. This book had so many unbelievable turns it just kind of left you going huh?!!? They are couple of nice moments that keeps it from getting one star, a few nice moments however just don't add up to a good book.
2044321
This was one of the worst books I have ever read.  It was the most corny and predictable plot I have encountered since middle school.  I had never read Patterson before, but having heard such great things and seeing that he is always on the best sellers list, I decided to give this a try.  What a complete waste of time.  I thought it stunk a few chapters in. but continued because I thought it would get better.  It never did, and in fact, it got worse and more unrealistic as the plot went on.  The latter parts of the book are cheesier than a soap opera.  I don't want to give anything away in case someone out there is crazy enough to want to waste their life away, but the ending is absolutely ridiculous.  Please don't buy this book.  Do something productive with your life and read something that you won't have figured out in the first 10 pages.
3161448
The plots is silly, everyone is stupid from the word go and the characters are 100% unbelievable.  The gags are grade-school level and for a comdey to really work it must have some base in reality.  This has nothing even close.  Save your money, don't bother.
2022860
I find it difficult to understand this book, as the plot moves at a snail's pace, the alternating viewpoints adding little to the story, and seem to be a trope employed by romance authors. Nothing much happens in this book despite all the attempts to setup the characters, Lauri (aka Ellia) and Rowan and the supporting cast.

Ellia Baldini was marked for a hit by her own husband Lorenzo "Renzo" Baldini, except the the hitman he hired, Rowan, had previously made a promise to Ellia's father, Mick, to watch for his little girl, the one girl that he should never touch, but only watch from afar. Except Ellia had a nightmare marriage... as her husband Baldini only married her to take revenge on her father, by abusing the **** out of her for EIGHT YEARS (and Rowan never found out). Every measure had been taken, including beatings, stabbings, rapes and abortions, it's all there. Somehow Ellia knew Rowan from back then too and probably had a secret crush on him since. So when Rowan got the contract, he can't go through with it. So he kidnapped her and faked her death in an explosion.

The rest of the book has little happening except Ellia, going back to her original name Lauri, adjusts to life with Rowan, a contract killer, and perhaps even love again. And Rowan tries to adjust to having a woman in the house, while still taking on various... jobs. Near the end of the book "Renzo" apparently found out she's alive... because they didn't bother hiding. She even opened a restaurant, for Pete's sake!  So... what? Frankly, by this time I'm so bored with the book I stopped reading.

The writing is also atrocious as all the characters sound alike, and the author has apparently a broken ENTER key as a lot of dialog was written with NO paragraph breaks. And yes, there's graphic violence since Rowan is a contract killer, and there were several kills in the book.

All in all, this is one atrocious book to read, one of the few I didn't bother to finish.
129456
I did not know this was one of those "assistant written" books when I got it. The plot is completely uncredible (since INcredible has come to mean something else.) Patterson has some kind of 'Thou doth protesteth too much' statement at the beginning about how great this book is. I am on the last tape and barely can struggle through it. Only my depression era Mother's voice about wasting money has me finishing it. The characters are also not believable. About as silly as the TV show they spawned. Finally,Jeremy Piven does fine in his part as the bad guy but the woman reading most of the book would be gnawing the scenery if there was any. WAY overplayed. Patterson is going the way that Patricia (Isle of Dogs) Cornwell went all by herself and probably Clancy went with all the 'not really me' books he wrote. Though in fairness to Tom he made that clear on the covers and I avoided them. Restaurants can sometimes be successfully franchised but this writer stuff mostly stinks. Good luck.
499306
I was very disappointed by the plot of this book which began badly and got worse.  As with her earlier books, I enjoyed the lovely depiction of characters and Venice.  The plot was unbelievable.  How the 'accident' of a grand daughter of a noble Venician family with clear signs of a crime was not investigated at the time made no sense to me.  In many of Brunetti's interviews he failed to follow up on important comments from an old friend of the family to that with the girl's mother.  The latter was really strange: he asked two questions, one was 'how damaged is she?'  Important sources like the girl's friends were never interviewed about the all important time just prior to the incident.  Then, Leon solves the case by adding a very hard-to-believe incident on the street.  Given the very weak investigation Brunetti conducted, the may have been the only way to solve the crime.
3720472
Actually I wouldn't even give this one star.. very boring and couldn't even finish.......
3464105
This is comically bad. With the very suspicious number of high reviews of a book with a plot so ludicrous, with characters so unbelievable, and so clumsily edited I can only think that the system is being gamed. This reminds me of the John Locke fiasco. NONE of the plot is believable. Firstly there is no way that TV is live broadcast - it has to have a time loop in place to stop offensive or illegal material being broadcast. Remember Janet Jackson? There is no way that a reward could be paid to a successful killer, anyone involved in trying to would be imprisoned very quickly. As for the technical and forensic aspects, this seems to be written by someone who has watched one or two Police procedural shows but failed to understand them. Cell phones do not need to be answered in order to track them. Maybe they had a tracking "crystal ball" like the one they used to find a surfer on a beach at night. Don't know why they would bother, the idea of the FBI hiring a private citizen on the basis that he could do a job that they couldn't is puerile. There is no way that a radio DJ could deliberately put lives at risk and not immediately end up in a cell. You have to wonder whether this might not have been written by a ten year old kid - it was certainly someone with no concept of reality.