Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'll be totally honest; I hate these shears. I had a small little pair that I randomly bought at a hardware store a few years ago that I LOVED, but have no idea what brand they were. When they disappeared in my garden somewhere, I turned to Amazon to help me pick a new pair. The reviews on these shears were so overwhelmingly positive that I thought I couldn't go wrong. Buuuuut, I hate them. They're much larger than I expected, and for a person with small hands (which I have), that's a big deal. The size I dislike, but I can get over. It's their lack of cutting ability that's the real problem. For as large as they are, they're not particularly sharp and have a hard time with woody or stringy vegetation, such as rose stalks or tall grasses. When trying to cut a rose stalk (of average size - I'm not trying to cut anything for which long-handled pruners would be more appropriate), for example, the blades separate and veer away from each other so that they don't actually sever the stem, forcing me to stick both my arms into the base of my rose bush so that I can get both hands on the shears and force them closed. Then, on the other end of the spectrum, with thinner materials, like reedy grasses or dead Birds of Paradise leaves, the blades aren't close enough together to make a clean cut - I usually have to grab the item with the shears, and then twist and yank repeatedly before muscling the leaf off the plant. Definitely a substandard product.