Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

With so many good reviews, I was excited to read this book. I didn't make it past the 1% marker. Reading it was like listening to my young nephew tell me about a movie he had watched. "He did this, and then he did this, and then he did this!" The author continually *tells* me about "Dan" (Dan. never "he," always "Dan" by name "Dan did this and then Dan did that...") but never seems to *show anything or allow the reader into the story. "Dan tried to turn his bike away but the man ran straight into the side it, dropping everything in his hands and sending Dan crashing to the ground. The man fell, too, but Dan cushioned his fall. Through the intense pain of an impact that felt like it had scraped off half of the skin on his left side, Dan grabbed the man's legs and tried to push the bike aside with his body." Just couldn't make myself read it. I am wildly confused by the massive number of good reviews this book received (and equally confused to note that, although this book has well over 1,000 reviews, not *one of the authors other titles has even 100. Apparently, people LOVED this book but not enough to read anything else by the same author...?).