This is an adult dystopian which means a teenage love triangle doesn't dominate the storyline and there's little whining. The beginning was slow for me as you're dumped into a world in the far distant future. It takes a while to learn about the hero and set up his back story. I personally could have done without all the details on his transformation. It does pick up once he's in the school and the war games begin so I started to like it more and more. If I had the second book, I would jump right in to the next part of the trilogy.

I'm not sure where I heard about this book, but I was really excited for it. It starts off great with a strong heroine who has special powers and is returned to the cool alternate world her parents were from, but then the junior high romance takes over. I wasn't expecting it since it's shelved in adult science fiction. In my opinion this is a YA book. It's too bad the dumb romance saturates the rest of the story because it could have been a really great book. I wanted to give it 4 stars, but I got too irritated with the whiny crap. In fact, I may end up downgrading it as I keep thinking about how annoying it got.

Starts off really funny when the alien narrator first arrives on Earth and is confused by how strange humans are. I wish the comedy had continued because my attention started to wander as the story grew more serious. Love the Dickinson and Talking Heads references.

This was my first Stephen King novel, and I really liked it. However, it was too long in my opinion. There is so much detail that my mind would start to wander when a part was slow and didn't seem to be vital to the story. For instance, there's a part where Jake begins to write his book. There is a long description of how he attempts to start and then wanders around his apartment and then goes back to the book. There is a whole page here that could be deleted and have zero impact on the story. Overall though, I loved the time travel and the characters, but I don't know that I'll pick up another King novel any time soon.

Such a great story full of characters. A little slow to start, but fun and heartwarming overall. I was pretty teary by the end of it. The first sentence really annoyed me though when it states that Ove is fifty-nine. That's not old. I pictured Ove as a grouchy old man in his 70s or 80s. He reminded me a lot of my grandpa, who likes to grumble but has a heart of gold.

A fascinating look at a local news story that the entire country followed. Arthur Waite was ruthless and seemed to have no conscience. Also he didn't seem to think things through. If this was a CSI episode, it would have been solved by the first commercial break. He sucked at covering his tracks.

This is a great book and will likely be a great movie. Some parts were really intense even though logically I knew the main character wasn't going to die because I still had a lot of pages left to read. I didn't expect the great sense of humor throughout. It kept the story from being too dry and dull. I couldn't give it 5 stars because of all the math and science. There was a lot of it being a book about space, but I skimmed most of it.

I'm sorry to say I did not enjoy this and chose to stop reading about 30% in. I got tired of all the bad things that happened to Resolute. It seemed like Turner wanted to check off every dire situation possible in 1730. First she's a pampered daughter of a plantation owner, then she's captured by pirates, then she's captured by a different set of pirates, then she's sold to Puritans as an indentured servant, then she's captured by Indians, and then she ends up in a French monastery. Again, this all happened in the first 200 of 600 pages. I can't take any more!