Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm about a third of the way though this, um, thriller, and maybe I'm dense but I don't see the problem here. So Jake read a few pages about a mother/daughter duo who didn't like each other and "absorbed" some of the weird sleazy life they led. So? It's a scenario. An idea. Ideas are not copyrightable. Plenty of writers have cribbed (ha) ideas from each other. The whole premise is faulty imo. and overblown. He didn't "steal" anything. And I don't get the praise for this book. I find the writing dull, the characters uninteresting, Jake a jerk, and . . . there's nothing left to say. I'm not even going to bother finishing it. I just don't care. And that's the cardinal sin an author commits--creating characters about whom the reader doesn't care. Shame on the media and PW and KR for lavishing such praise on this clunker. I think it shows how impoverished we are for really good stories. Sadly, this isn't one of them.