Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

"Coach" Corey Wayne honestly seems like a really good guy that I'd like to have a beer with, and he has some genuinely good insight into women and how to maintain healthy interactions with them. However, this book is a disorganized mess. It feels archaic, anarchic, and in need of a professional editor. Starting with the title page: it literally says "Written by Corey Wayne". A professional writer doesn't use "written by" because we KNOW it was "written by" the name on the COVER OF THE BOOK. I think the last time I saw someone use "Written by" in a book was one of my kids when they were pretending to write a book. It just doesn't feel professional. And that feeling carries through the whole book. Wayne meanders around, digressing, repeating stories, failing to get to the point so much that by the time you get close to the end of the book, he's telling you that in order to get a handle on his infinite wisdom, you need to read it "10-15 times," also a refrain you hear over and over in his YouTube videos. But, if the book was better organized, and more well edited, you wouldn't need to read it that much. Let's talk for a moment about the layout and design. The book uses roman numerals to section off the content. Why? Use chapter numbers man, nobody wants your high-falootin roman numerals. It's just another layer of weird pretension and confusion. What about the spacing/font? It's double spaced!!! WHY???? PLEASE HIRE A DESIGNER. Hire a designer and editor to work together to organize your information in a way that actually flows and becomes linear. Honestly, look at something like the "For Dummies" books (not that I love those books, but I'm just saying, at least they are well laid out) - use sectioning, callouts, margins, etc. At least break out the quotes you cite, put them in the front of each section in a separate font to call attention to them! Something! Anything! Make the book interesting to page through instead of what feels like a never-ending diatribe where you never take a breath. The whole thing just feels so amateurish. It feels like something from 1995, not 2020. Another aggravating thing is the constant presence of "google corey wayne blah blah blah" to make you go look up his website or youtube. As Corey would say, COME ON MAN! Who are you trying to kid? We GET IT! You want clickety-clicks, right? But if I'm holding a PHYSICAL PAPERBACK BOOK in my hand, I DO NOT want to read "google corey wayne blah blah" every other paragraph. Seriously. WRITE A BETTER BOOK that includes the content you are constantly telling me to put down the book to look up. SO lazy and irritating. I only say this because I think there's a lot of good insight in there, but you're killing it with the disorganized, sloppy writing and layout. Each section should have a thesis that you build on, and each paragraph should have its subthesis, which should reinforce main points. You dip and out of your main points so much and digress so much that it's impossible to follow the logic. One other thing that drove me crazy about his book is the repeated statement that "it is a scientific fact that women are more attracted to men whose feelings are unclear." Okay, fine. But PROVE IT. If you're going to go to the trouble to claim (over and over and over) that something is a "scientific fact" then EXPLAIN IT. If something is a "scientific fact" then surely there are studies you could refer to? Something you can quote? You do realize that many of us actually read other books on relationships and social science where actual studies are referenced in such a way that a reasonably intelligent person can go look up the "scientific fact" that is being referred to, right? So when you use such a "fact" and don't provide any citation for it, it just feels extremely lazy and calls your whole pedagogy into question. All that said, there's some insight to be gained in this books (as you can tell from the many positive reviews) but in order to get there, you have to claw your way through a thicket of gobbledeegook, or attempt to parse extremely undeveloped thoughts and ideas. If this book was better written, you wouldn't need to read it "10-15 times".