Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don’t normally leave one star reviews. Even if a book isn’t good I’d hate for my one star review to hurt an author’s career. People can read the book themselves and realize how bad it is on their own. But with this book, the only reason it has any success is the author’s fame. This book is bad. This book is really bad. In the acknowledgments Bobby says that he binge-read a bunch of novels for the first time in his twenties and then just decided to write his own. It shows. I was actually kind of surprised he had ever read a novel. Bobby’s prose is horrific. I’m sorry but he doesn’t know how to write, and it seems that he’s attracted a lot of people who don’t read, but just like his music. I could predict the ending a third of the way through the book. The characters are somewhat nuanced, but the way they are characterized is awful. He sticks to weird movie and tv show stereotypes. From what I can tell Flynn is based off Bobby himself, except without any musical talent, which is odd, because Flynn spends a lot of time talking about what type of music he likes but as far as I can tell never mentions a book or author he likes. I think Bobby should take that as a hint that he should stick to rapping. Literally every single author who’s ever given writing advice says that the most important thing you need to do is read a lot. A week does not cut it. A week of reading books will not fix Bobby’s painful prose or blindingly obvious foreshadowing or lack of plot. Bobby spends all his time trying to be artistic, with cringey fourth wall breaks and flashbacks and flash forwards that just don’t work. Inexperienced readers might look at that and think it’s pure literary brilliance, but anybody who’ve actually read a few books will just find it disgusting. If you’re reading this Bobby you should stop. Stop writing novels. You’re getting a lot of credit for terrible work because your rap fans decided to support you. I guarantee you most of them didn’t really enjoy reading your book that much, or if they did they just liked that you made your character so relatable by including some popular bands and life as a minimum wage worker at a grocery store. I’ll give you that, your description of working in a supermarket is pretty accurate. Even with all that I don’t think most of your readers even finished the book. Look at the reviews, even in most of the glowing ones the reviewers say they’re only part of the way through the book. I’ve read my fair share of book reviews and have never seen anybody write a review when they’re part way through a book unless it was a terrible book they couldn’t finish. This is not a good book. I just want that to be on record somewhere, because almost everything else I see is purely delusional.