Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is frustrating, and annoying. Have you ever read a book that COULD be good, but WASN'T? Have you ever read a book you had to WORK to finish reading (fiction, not college text on labwork)? For all the layout, the slowwwww layout, it was lacking needed build. Content was all over the place, sometimes great and sometimes my head hurt just trying to get past it. The characters are ok... thats all. (I'll explain) I don't care if characters do things I expect or like (or not), it's a book and I'm open to the story. But, these characters are missing things...they are a mix; Super detailed in their buildout...but for only half of their story (like a portrait, half completed nicely and half with missing details ,colors, and dented canvas.) Some are also barely constructed and paper flat in creation. I would like Poppy as a charcter, but she can honestly shut up for about 70% of her inner crap. I would like Hawke/Cass but he is written so shallowly repetitive. The banter is dismal. I feel like I shoved myself through the first book (literally scanning to read the parts about the characters that mattered), and was genuinely mad because I wanted to know about the charcters enough that I bought the second book to just get done. (I'm a finisher) And getting done meant exactly nothing, the ending is as hacked as the rest of the two books. My only consolation was it cost me less $ than lunch to read both books, and I finished them in less than 24 hrs. Would I buy them again? No. I wouldn't have missed anything. Now that I'm done I have zero desire to know these characters better and zero desire to follow this worlds other characters (which is also frustrating, because several characters had such potential for more) These books remind me of a lush salad that looks really good, but has little chunks of mushy brown hiding under and stuck to the crispy green, and off tasting dressing coating all the best parts. I literally scraped dressing and picked through the salad eating what good stuff I could just to get done enough to feel like I had a salad. Would I order it again? Not worth the risk.