Yesterday I reviewed a paperback about the superhero, the Flash, whom I love, but the book didn't catch me. Today, I'm going to tell you about a multiple award winning mystery series I couldn't get through. However, if you want to read them, I'll mail them to you! 
On vacation, I started reading the British Mystery series called "Masie Dobbs" by Jacqueline Winspear. (I also have the second novel, "Birds of a Feather" but won't read it).
Usually I give a novel about 100-120 pages to get into it. I stopped at 120 in this book. I will say that the mystery solved in the first 75 pages or so, was enjoyable. I like the main character, and the mystery was intriguing about a mystery figure buried in a grave and a woman who was visiting the gravesite without telling her husband.
Then, the novel flashed back to when Masie was a child, and became somewhat tedious to read about her day to day learning, working, living at someone else's house (her dad sent her to a well-to-do family to live and do housework, after Masie's mother died). That part of the story continued for the 50+ pages and I couldn't get into it. -
I think there was another mystery at the end, but didn't want to continue through the story of a young girl's school years. I think that women may find this more interesting than men, because they could related to Masie's childhood as a young girl trying to get a great education.
BTW- I NEVER leave bad reviews on Amazon.com, because everyone is different. Obviously, this series appealed to a lot of people and won awards. I think that if you like something, tell people why. If you didn't like something, don't post a bad review.
Like moms always say "If you have nothing good to say, say nothing."
