Max and Jakob have a podcast called "Beste Freundinnen" where they talk about love, sex and relationships. I did not know their podcast. They also published books and I listened to this one here as audio book. So I do not know if their podcast is better, more fun or whatever.
I saw this audio book read by the authors themselves (the voices were pleasant) in my audio book newsfeed and spontaneously started it. I was ready for them being honest, calling the things by their names and that I do not have to agree with them or whatever. But I simply did not enjoy it.
You can take a look at the table of contents and it is just such a mess. The topic switched from one thing to another and between the chapters the break was not long enough. The title of the next chapter felt glued to the last sentence of the last chapter, so the new title was closer to the end of the last chapter then to the beginning of the new story. There was a mix out of stories of their past (f.e. "Hannah"), followed by a letter of a follower of them and asking for their advice, followed by some random question you could ask on your first date, followed by some rambling about soulmates or why and how to argue, followed by a love letter to one of their mothers???
I did not find it diverse, I just found it out of place and a mess. Also the stories about some of their ex-partners should display how a love or a relationship or a feeling to another person could look like and how it ended, but I just did not care about the stories. The letters to the editor were sometimes answered in like a few lines or they were beating around the bush, so weird.
Later they talked a bit about their childhood and I also did not care, even though it was there to explain a bit why people are like they are.
I do not want to be hypocritical and say I was never in for some drama and deny every train of thought Max & Jakob were admitting, but all in all it just feels so far away and then the talk about their mothers or they being or becoming fathers did not interested me either at all.
Of course they were using "fun" names for genitals or having sex and I accepted it for some kind of insider or running gag they came up with during their podcasts, but it just sounded childish and were not my taste of humor.
I could sugarcoat it, because this book gave me emotions and I value when a book manages to do this or that they talk honestly and open about things others would try to brush off and there some gleams of interesting input that made me think, but I can find this sparks of hope in pretty much any book the same as I can find a nice part of ANY Eurovision Song Contest song, but I just have to start cutting somewhere.
I did not like it. I did not like the structure (order and topics and how much space what part got), I did not like the humor, I did not like the stories, I did not like the book. I felt cringe all the time and I am just amazed a book could give me this feeling pretty much non-stop.