I was really looking forward to this author's books, as I like historical mysteries. This first book of hers was a big disappointment: the main character was obnoxiously self-centered, women continually fell over for him for no reason that the author made clear, and the mystery plot was ridiculously contrived and full of holes. For me, there are too many good historical mysteries to waste time on this author.

A friend of mine who has great taste in books bought me a copy of Perfume by Patrick Suskind a few years ago and said I would adore it.

I finished the novel and was quite disappointed by the whole book.

I find the more praise heaped onto something (whether it be a book, film, album etc) the more disappointed I am when I read it.

I think my expectations get raised too highly

I've just finished WH, feeling that it was one of the canon that I hadn't read and should and can't help wondering what all the fuss was about. Lots of people being angry and selfish and seeing the consequences of that. It's my own fault though really... I expected it to be like Jane Eyre :)

I had heard so many people talk about The Time Traveler's Wife, and when the movie came out (which I never saw), I decided I should read it. Oh man, I found it sooo boring and I could not get into it at all. The idea of the plot was interesting, but the characters just seemed really distant and unsympathetic to me. I rarely stop reading a book once I start it, but this was one exception. I read about 1/3 of the book when I realized I dreaded picking it up again to continue reading. I figured I was wasting time I could use to read something I actually enjoyed, so I posted the book to give away. I hope someone else is now enjoying it :)

Everyone told me this would be the book for me as i like dystopian blah blah blah. But i really didn't like it. I found it boring and the story felt like it was just a way to get people to read the underlying message. Don't get me wrong, i like books with a message but i also like the story to be enjoyable too. Not a fan of this one and i was really looking forward to reading it.

Very recently, I picked up the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. The first two books were very good, and I was so absorbed by the second that I read it in a day. Unfortunately, the next book, A Letter of Mary, didn't live up to its claim of "a novel of suspense." It was actually fairly boring. I think I will put aside the series for a bit before I return and pick up the fourth.

While I wouldn't class this book as a complete disappointment, I don't think it lived up to the praise I'd read of it. It was good, just not as good as I'd been led to expect.

For me, it ranks below the great classics of SF and is closer to the ranks of books you are unexpectedly pleased by.

I was really looking forward to reading William Peter Blatty's new book, Dimiter and got a copy when it first came out - but I didn't like it at all. I was bored and frustrated with the subject matter and found the narrative confusing. I went on Amazon to check out other people's opinions and some readers gave it very high praise, so maybe it's just me.

I put it in my inventory and it was immediately mooched, so hopefully the next reader will enjoy it more than I did!