If you've read any of my other recent book reviews, you'll prolly already know that I start them all off by saying that every book I read and review starts off with the full shed-load of 5 stars and that I'm always hopefully that they'll still be stuck firmly in place by the time I close the back cover. You'll also know that I'm not shy about knocking stars off if I feel it's necessary, but I always give my reasons for doing so within the review. There has been one book that has had a magic little sentence right at the back that made me put a star back on and I've been hopeful that it'll happen again each time I've removed a star.
My confidence is through the floor at the best of times so I'm hoping that this book will help me to start to re-build that confidence back up.
Let's get going with the reading and reviewing shall we?
I've read the first law and while it was great to read, it needs to go through an edit on the Kindle 'cos there are numbers and a capital N mid-way through a paragraph rather than at the start of it as well as all kinds of numbers all over the place that are weirdly placed 'cos they are out of sequence in the lists and the page numbers are part of the way through pages instead of at the bottom. It's not enough for me to take a star off, but the first star is significantly wobbly already and I'm only 5% of the way through the book!
I'm at 7% and it could definitely have done with at least a look-through, or ideally a read-through of every page 'cos the first letter of the paragraph is out of place again and the heading is on a different page to the contents, which is very confusing for me at least. I hope the author still has confidence when he realises that his hard work has already dropped a star at less than 10% of the way through.
I've made it to 12% before I knock off the second star for repetition. I'm up to law 5 and the author is saying the same thing using different words as the previous 4 laws, so we're now down to 3 stars and if it doesn't pick up my interest very soon, it'll be down to 2 stars unfortunately. That'll teach me for having such high hopes from this book! I'm giving it until 15% for the boredom star, but right now it's not looking promising unfortunately.
Well, I'm at 15% and it hasn't improved, I'm bored out of my brain, so another star is coming off unfortunately. It's been a complete, total and utter disappointment so far.
The final star is dropping off at the start of law 7 because the author has decided to go back into rap as opposed to writing and it's the final nail in the coffin of this book for me. At 16% I've officially given up.
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