Status Updates From Protectors of the Written Word

Continues to be deeply aggravating as at least the first 80 pages presented a handful of different stories related to the central theme - then it’s 100 pages straight of booksellers in European countries whose stories all have the same conclusion - amazon bad, embrace tourism, books good, resilience, resilience, resilience. If I read resilience one more time…

When not written like a freshman english major churning out content for LinkedIn posts, just absolutely rife with typos, repeated clauses, paragraphs out of order or repeated wholesale (the Mohammed Aziz chapter has an entire page repeated!), overwritten speaker tags, illogical transitions - a mess. $125k in Kickstarter funding and not a single beta reader apparently.

My dad has to be stopped from spending money on things he sees on Facebook. The idea behind this book is admirable - I too enjoy stories and am all for the promotion of literacy - but it’s very clear that it’s a self-published vanity object - the back has a pull quote from the author, the side has a big ugly FIRST EDITION tag (that only matters if it’s a book people want to buy…), and the editing? Non-existent.

DNF due to too many sentences appearing twice. Contacted publisher and will adjust review when answered.