Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I pre-ordered this new Chloe cookbook back in July and eagerly awaited for this for months. Her first cookbook is unbelievably good, and my copy is torn, tattered, food-soaked, falling apart, and rubber-banded together b/c I've used it so much and have made those recipes over and over again. Meat eaters in my family are amazed by the recipes and several have become staples in our typical weekly rotations. (BTW, I also have her Italian cookbook and the desserts cookbook, as well as literally hundreds of cookbooks from all types of authors, including Moskowitz, Romero, Patrick-Goudreau, Ronnen, Kenney, etc.) This new one? Really sad to say that I'm disappointed in it. A few things - a .The recipes have way more ingredients than her other cookbooks and do not seem as "down-to-earth accessible" as the past (i.e. the Fiesta Taco Bowl has almost 20 ingredients alone to serve 4). Yes, I know that she never titled the book "easy, 5-ingredients, and painless." That's not my point; I'm simply comparing to past works that are excellent and tried-and-true. b. There are more recipes where she now uses multiple forms of protein in the same recipe (i.e. McVegan Breakfast Sandwich takes silken tofu, extra-firm tofu, AND seitan - in the same recipe!). This is unlike her past cookbooks where pretty much one type of protein was used and things were less complicated. Also, as one other reviewer pointed out, there's more emphasis on seitan in 7 recipes (i.e. meatball parm, nachos, no-huevos rancheros, taco bowl, BBQ burgers, etc.) versus past cookbooks where she was more reliant on tofu and tempeh. If you are gluten sensitive, be aware. c. The photography seems disjointed and inconsistent (between angles, light vs. dark, backgrounds, etc.) and strangely too "creative" on certain pages (i.e. p. 83's Healing Soup where the center of the pic is white space and the actual food in the corners; just seems unbalanced?). d. The "voice" that it's written in seems more cliché too (i.e. title for desserts section is "Sweet Yo' Self") and / or too cutesy sometimes for each recipe's intro (i.e. "One fish, two fish..."). It just seems different from the very authentic voice of the past cookbooks. I'm sure I'll eventually make a few recipes from it, but none are super appealing at the moment (i.e. more bowls, more salads, more burgers, more vegan takes on the usual). I suppose I was just thinking it was going to better. Just my honest opinion.