This book was wonderful .
Echo and Noah's relationship is very sweet and it was nice to see that they saved each other.
I found this section of the book personally interesting because I read through it going, "Oh, That's why I am like that."
The characters could not have been better , the story is based on something which in 1964 would have been nothing short of revolutionary and finally the writing style is smooth like calm waters.
 On the strong side , the writing is superior and the post-apocalyptic world that Cole creates is imaginative and she builds it well.
His dialogue rings true, and with such an expansive cast of characters, sometimes it can be hard to remember them all or they end up sounding alike, but all these characters are easily identifiable as themselves .
It was better than good it was GREAT! The characters are rich and fantastic and devious and wonderful and heart-breaking and maddening.
Every now and then Brimstone calls for her to run an errand.
This book ran true to my memories of the South.
 But I absolutely loved it .
My favorite aspect of this book is the fact that the ending had my stomach in knots and gripped with suspense .
Her writing style and perspective was great .
 He has some good info  but I was just not overly impressed
The plot device of finding each clue and solving it got a little bit tedious at times .
but I enjoyed being with the characters so much and the writing is just terrific that I enjoyed spending the time with this book.
The beginning was interesting .
All this happened because I was interested in a single  book .
The overall story was good, but not really intriguing to me .
I even recommended it to my mother! The characters are memorable and well written .
Wow! The ending was interesting .. not sure its what I would have done, in Nicks place, however I can see his reasoning.
I really enjoyed both the characters and the story setting .
Imagine living during the middle 19th century as a free man in New York State with a wonderful family and having the talent to play the fiddle so well that you are requested to play numerous venues for pay.
Michel Thomas's, the Pimsleur series, and the Barron's version of the Foreign Service Institute course are the three top-selling courses on Spanish, and I did extensive research on the various high end courses before buying his.
Though the individual sections were interesting, I was disappointed that there wasn't an overall theme .
The idea for the plot is an interesting one .
Before I forget- 4 stars for me means that I enjoyed reading it, but would not have it on my own personal shelf .
So beautifully written, so uplifting, I am so happy that I gave this book a chance .Thank
That is why I gave it one star because I hated it .
 All the characters are so rich in their descriptions that I feel I would recognize them on the street if I was to run into them.
When I saw this book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain, I knew I had to choose it for my review .
-- A Romantic Book Affairs ReviewOkay, I've obviously lost cool points for not reading Hopeless sooner.
Story line was very interesting .
Still, it is very good and worth the time and money .
Whether or not you believe in heaven, this story is exceptional! The journey that this little boy took is absolutely amazing and worth the little bit of time it will take to read.
The characters were interesting and the history was sad and powerful not only the history from 80 years ago but from the communication just 40 years ago.
All good characters have flaws .
She creates some complete characters alongside some comical stock characters.
 I see why the reviews are less than the other books, although I have a different set of reasons than most .
 Character development is very intricate , as is the story line.
 And, because she is so utterly sweet, is cajoled into interviewing Christian Grey, a mega rich , surprisingly young man with a million dollar company, for her best friend's school paper.
Like everyone else who read it, I loved "Seabiscuit".  Loved it.  I found this surprising given the fact that I had never had any interest in horses or horse racing before.  But from the first sentence, the prose in that book is as beautiful and engaging as prose can be."Unbroken" is not "Seabiscuit".  Don't get me wrong, the story is remarkable, and it's exhaustively researched.  You can't sneeze at 397 endnotes.  But Laura Hillenbrand's writing in this outing is less like poetry and more like reporting.  Jammed with details, the book reads like the world's longest New Yorker article.The topic is hardly new.  WWII has been pretty exhaustively covered, and this particular story has been told before.  The hero of the book, Louis Zamperini, published his own memoirs only a few years ago.  The hardships of war and the cruelty of the Japanese come as no surprise.Louie's story is so remarkable and so detailed that, frankly, it strains the limits of credulity.  I'm not challenging the facts; I'm just saying that it's a lot to remember.  Personally, I wouldn't even want to.  I wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes drifting in that life raft.  I would have eaten all the chocolate and stuck my head in a shark.  How anyone could remember the ordeal in hour-by-hour detail is beyond me.Ultimately, I couldn't finish the book.  I feel bad that I didn't have the strength to read the experiences someone else had to live, but I gave up on about my third POW camp.  Starvation, deprivation, cruelty, disease, humiliation, I got the picture.  Repeated cycles don't necessarily make for a great story; it just makes for a tedious narrative.Which made me ponder the purpose of the book.  As a moving story, it's too detailed to carry a theme.  As reporting, it's redundant and profoundly out of date.  What's the take-away message supposed to be?I tried to skip to the end, but the `redemption' part just didn't grab me.  It's not hard to believe that someone who lived this life would be scarred forever.  I practically got PTSD just reading it.  It's also not hard to believe someone who got that scarred would find religion.
It gets a star because the cover is so pretty .Where
The characters were entertaining and the banter was witty and hilarious .
And while we learn about a lot of his past, he ends the story still being somewhat mysterious .I really liked Nora's character.
 I thought the cover was interesting the idea was unique .
 They still are drawn to one another and love each other, but their trust is being taxed and their reliance on the strengths of the other is not assured.
 The characters have an amazing relationship and nothing happens between them until after TJ is a legal adult .
I really liked that the romance with the conflicts it had was quite believable.....not just the wine and roses and the crazy lengths of character development with their thoughts and conflicts that sometimes go on and on !
The other character, Hassan, is genuinely, perhaps, the most decent human being you can ever come across out there .
 How Ms. Tartt was able to get into this young man's psyche is incredible!
It is such a clever book, all the details neatly come together, every detail is of some importance, the writing is straightforward, but amazingly descriptive, the characters are so realistic ( I actually know people like them
I have a personal interest in the machinations of Rome and the Knights Templar.
It didn't  really hold my interest and I found the characters to be one -dimensional and rather dull.
Perfect development of the characters - the bond they build is palpable, believable and quite beautiful.
Both have the main male character being drop dead sexy, rich businessmen that are very protective over the women they love, and have also been through terrible tragedy.
Suzy Wilson's review Apr 23 , 20135 of 5 starsbookshelves: dystopia, strong-female-protagonistRead in April, 2013I received a copy of this novel as an electronic Advance Reader Copy from NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin, in return for an honest review.
This is my only problem really , in that the other characters feel quite undeveloped - i don't feel I know, or care about them very much.
The plot is compelling if gruesome and disturbing at several points .
 Women are always stronger than men .
They have great character development !
But the journey they take was exciting and an absolute blast to read, and I actually like the way things wrapped up.
 The first is that of "time slicing", which demonstrates how important information can be encoded in a very short period of time.  Most of Gladwell's examples are socioloical, and the most striking of which was research which aimed to predict whether married couples would get divorced after analyzing a single conversation with them.The other concept is how the brain acts subconsciously to certain stimulus .
Gillian Flynn has a great writing style and her characters are perfectly and realistically twisted .
The characters are completely unbelievable in their roles .
The book is amazing, and I would definately would have given it 5 stars but for certain aspects of the book, but I think parts of the book made some people, especially men, uncomfortable given the extremely detailed romantic impulses and actions of the female protagonist and her lover .
Being a person who rarely reads fantasy , I was a little uneasy about reading this book, especially when I looked at the character log in the back, with all the houses listed and its history.
The tragic story of a woman with 5 young children who, by way of her death from a particularly vicious cancer, should help save the lives of probably almost every one of us, is positively fascinating.
 Billionaire falls for a girl and likes to be in charge of all aspects of his life .
4.5 starsMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is one of those books that is completely unexpected and almost swathed in mystery .
Jodi Picoult's The Storyteller is a fictional account of a young woman-Sage- who befriends an older gentleman-Josef- she meets at a grief group.
I loved that Sam wasn't an alpha wolf .
Also, there were time where the lengthy descriptions of unnecessary things (furniture, for example) got so detailed that it would take you out of the book; I'd find myself skipping paragraphs a time and losing nothing from the story.
 "Divergent" has an amazing plot and I think its a fairly unique one when you think about how many dystopian novels are hitting the shelves.
The mystery and the romance combined are just perfect .
It took half the book to develop the main character .
Stop saving everyone else and save himself.
Fantastic characterisation and an always exciting plot .
I find that the plot is excellent in terms of its riveting sequence of events .
 His description about sitting in the dining room was so real .
The story line was easy to follow and while it was difficult at times to like Joss, the main character, I fell in love with Braden and Ellie !
 I really loved this book, and thought it brought together the characters endings in a lovely way .
Perhaps it's a reinforcement of the story setting where no one is enlightened and all kings are blood-thirsty savages with no brains that need Aes Sedai to guide them and all women are helpless and need men around to protect them, but I seem to have higher expectations.Edit update: 1/3 of the way through Book 10Ok, things did slow down a bit. Part of the issue is that there are so many players and so many tangents that it takes forever to tell one and get back to another. Still, petty good overall so I'll try and finish it out. 
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire is exactly as the title says.
 Mr. Zusak has a wonderful and unique way with words .
The love story was beautiful, the characters loveable .
In this wonderful book, set in Jackson, Mississippi in the years 1962-1964, we meet three unforgettable women: Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young white woman, who is 22, a budding social activist and writer; Aibileen, a black maid raising her 17th white child; and Minny, Aibileen's best friend, who has just lost another job for speaking out to the white woman she worked for.
When Jacqueline follows her high school sweetheart, Kennedy, to the college of his dreams she thinks that they are the perfect couple but just months later he tears her heart out by breaking up with her and she falls into a deep depression.
What ugly, disgusting language used over and over and to no disernable purpose .
At over 700 pages it isn't a quick read , but GRRM does a great job of making an already excellent story even better.
The characters are rich and wonderful and the imagery is immersive .
 What you can expect from J. Lynn (a.k.a Jennifer L. Armentrout) is solid writing , a great push and pull between Cam and Avery, witty banter and a touching story.
 It was hard to read some of this, but the character development was excellent .
It's hard to write about this book .
The setting and characters are perfect !
The characters in the book are very likeable and you can very easily sympathize with them .
I like that the characters felt real .Then came the end, more so the last few chapters.
His past is so dark that haunts his dreams , so dark even he has great fear confronting it.
Have you every started a book and it just wasn't good but you read through it because eventually it did or because the rest of the series was good, well that's not the case here.
This was recommended to me by another bibliophile who loves a good yarn , great plot development and real characters.
But the thing I liked most was how he managed to portray Christopher as the only character with real depth and texture .
When I started this book I had high hopes and the information about Berlin and the change to Nazism and the often cruelty and attacks on American citizens were very interesting.
 It was a great story, The characters were wonderful, I just didn't want it to end .
 This one had a surprising number of pretty high reviews
The cover is really pretty (though am I the only one who thinks the cover model looks like Mandy Moore?) and draws you into the story .
Incarnate by Jodi MeadowsPrint Length: 400 pagesPublisher: Katherine Tegen Books (January 31, 2012)Sold by: HarperCollins PublishersASIN: B005GG0K80My Review~ The cover is stunning !!
 The two main characters, Anna and Christian are not believable and to me, annoying.
What a funny, funny read .
Of course, the purpose of this review is not to compare two books side-by-side, but to review Suzanne Collins's "The Hunger Games" as a standalone novel .The premise is simple.
The characters have more depth, and the jumping from place to place makes more sense .
They are fleshed out more than well enough, as the plot of necessity relies -- Landay intended it to rely -- more on the swift action provided by any excellent legal thriller .
Erik Larson has a unique ability to write about historical events in a truly intriguing way .
She is a writer in charge of her craft .
Compelling, cool story, solid character development, and well-constructed plot .
The storyline is fascinating and compelling .
The pacing is excellent, and the mystery in the book keeps feeding you enough clues to keep you interested.
 Best of all, the book had real depth and the romance was not the least bit one dimensional .
It was like reading the same awful book three times in a row.1) Characters:The characters are uninteresting and boring .
 I was always heartened to see another Bailey chapter in the book as I read, while the Celia and Marco chapters didn't hold my interest as well, as the characters were too lifeless for me to be emotionally invested in them .That's my only quibble with this book, however -- the rest is one of the most enthralling and beautiful fictional worlds I have ever come across in a work of fiction.
The scene setting, the character development, the plot twists, and the dialogue are all superb .
This is hand-down the most beautiful cover I have ever seen before (and I have seen some pretty beautiful covers before like "Fallen" and "Torment" by Lauren Kate, "Halo", and whatnot).
I just loved this book .
No really, the characters are fabulous and addictive. I felt the heartbreaking tale of Joss' loss and subsequent lifestyle. I loved every step of her journey .
Rowling manages to write characters that aren’t exactly likeable , yet she still manages to make them likeable, if that makes any sense at all.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book , and its sequels.
Just the word "maze" incites an instant mental picture of adventure, mystery, danger, and bravery.
 Several twists and turns keeps interesting .
This probably wasn't the best of the trilogy...perhaps the worse .
I really like this book - the character were likable , it was a good length, there wasn't too much angst
It is a whirlwind romance , emotions are high but when the secret is revealed, Ethan stands to lose the one thing he loves the most..
 The romance is very light and sweet .
 I get the feeling the author wanted to create the perfect family who focus on the right things but are just too poor, but there's not enough human flaws.
 Though the background is quick, it is efficiently concise.
 That it was not over the second they found relief .
 The characters were delightful , both the main character and all the others.
Conflicted. Frustrated .
I don’t think I’ve ever said the word “duck” so much while reading a book in my entire life as I did while reading Bang.
There are a few other characters in this book that I liked as well.
I don't read a lot of mystery's, but I found a lot of the plot points to be pretty transparent that details seemingly mentioned off handedly by characters are going to be important in the solution to the mystery, almost like having it highlighted IMPORTANT POINT HERE!
This book has some good , reasonable advice.
The characters are very endearing and lovable .
 She has some major mental problems and is under guardianship, but we also see early on that there is some sort of genius within.
but I will not go into details (yet) as I have other more important things to do than rant about this piece of bull.
The narration switches mostly between Cinder and Prince Kai , giving a well-rounded view the events taking place as the intimidating Queen Levana of the Lunars visits....and things get pretty complex once she shows up.
When you see over 3,000 4 or 5-star reviews (over 90% of the total reviews), then this book has to be good - and it is!
 That the storyteller was "Death" was also strange for me .
I often find that books in these categories are either a) completely unbelievable and I get eye strain from rolling my eyes so often, or b) the characters are so flat and transparent that I really don't give a fig about what happens to them.
This book was interesting to read but I was disappointing in the subject matter.
The characters are strong women , and triumphant.
how the characters are related and involved .
Unfortunately since his first book Nassim Taleb has become more and more unbearable from my perspective .
 Overall it could have been good but instead just became annoyingly predictable .
Now remember, these characters are in their late 40s .
The characters and plot line in this novel are very entertaining and thankfully , clean and upscale.
There's just too much setting up for it to get far enough into the story that it'll be done at the end of 374 pages.
Overall, if you are looking for answers to the big questions in life, or just some really good food for thought, this book is well worth reading .Other recommended reading:Create Your Own Reality - The Ancient Wisdom
The entire plot was lame only to be surpassed by a terrible ending .
But the information in the book is truly fascinating and worth putting up with the clumsy format to dig it out.
The plot was exciting, and I thought the characters were marvelous .
The characters are funny , and monologue between them is hilarious!
The characters are believeable and the plot line moves along at a good pace.
The plot is fast -paced and full of plenty of twists, which made it a blast to read.
The plot, characters, and setting is much more interesting and developed than the other series .When
 When I had only a few more chapters to read I went back to Amazon and looked to see if the author had any other books published, since I enjoyed this one so much .
 The characters are rich, complex , and pull at your heart on every page.
 It's just a fun read and a book I feel is a must read .
 The story was a bit slow for me at first, but once I became invested in the characters and plot , I could hardly put it down.
His characters are full of life and substance .
This book started out with such promise .
 The characters were original, but deep down just like every other teenager .
 If someone is looking for an informative read that is inspiring and interesting, this is an excellent book .
I find that my favorite books are the ones where none of the characters are all good or all bad .
The first half was super slow and it wasn't until the second half that the character s came together and the story line rolled on .
The mystery is creative if a bit inscrutable .
The Kite Runner is very easy to read , because it keeps your interest throughout the entire book.
I LOVE THIS BOOK.Don't let what others say make you shy away from this book or series; some people, it seems, get a little too into a story and forget that this is only a fiction piece.
 Figured the book had to have more information about everything (books are always better than the movie) -
If I didn't already have a great appreciation for the Seals, and the great men and women that also serve, this book really enhances my understanding and gratitude. It does not compromise national security or seek personal agrandizement.
I absolutely loved Ms. Tartt's other books, "The Secret History" and "The little Friend".
 All I can say  is that, like so many before and after me, this book captivated my interest  and set up some great characters, and in the books to come, the new  characters to arrive are all at least as cleverly developed... and let me  just say that, if you are a fantasy-lover newcome to Jordan, you will  UNDOUBTEDLY enjoy this and the next 2-3 books.
It's a good read too - he was a difficult man , with the temperment and sensibility of an artist, not an engineer, which makes for good drama in the narrative of his life.
no matter, the premise of the story is clever .
 It also helped that I got the audio book featuring the performing talent of the impressive Linda Stephens.
The writing was choppy and poor and the characters were never really defined .
By page 200, the story had become a Lifetime Movie with caricatures instead of complicated and complex characters .
This is the first book in the Trylle trilogy by Hocking .
Do the strategies work? I implemented three different strategies described in the book in my own companies, and I am ecstatically pleased with the results.
I liked this serie very much! I found it poetic and sensitive .
 The characters are excellent and their personalities are very individual .
 The story is gripping and well -written, but it's the characters more than anything else that kept me coming back.
 The character development was great .
The characters were bland ; the writing poor; and the imagination was unimaginative.