Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

According to the product description, this book promised to "focus on the importance of self-advocating and valuing personal safety over being ‘nice’ or ‘helpful'" which was exactly what I wanted to read. A book about staying true to yourself and staying safe. So, what went wrong with this one: 1. The book is written by two writers. This in itself is not a bad thing, but in all the chapters it started as a conversation and parts of each chapter were narrated by Karen while other parts were narrated by Georgia. This was very confusing and made me lose track of who was saying what. The writing felt disjointed as if there were several books in this one. 2. The amount of bad language used was staggering. The F bomb was dropped almost in each sentence. Mainly, as in "F*** politeness". So, maybe not a bad message here, but could have and should have been delivered in a more literary way. It is a book and not a fish market after all. 3. Some of the personal anecdotes told were irrelevant to the subject matter. Why would i be interested to know that one of the co writers (couldn't be bothered to remember which one) touched a P**** and did Meth at 13? 4. Not enough emphasis was given on the subject at hand- too much uninteresting personal anecdotes instead of true crime stories, and discussion of meaningful cultural and societal issues. Felt immensely disappointed, and hence a one star review. My first.