A fun sweet read! Highly recommend.

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for my ARC.

This book felt like one of those where you start reading a couple paragraphs and start understanding what you’re going to get out of the whole book. Quick stories making this a quick book to get through - often making me wish they went on just a bit more.

I get the idea of what this book was aiming at, but the execution was poor. Similar to ‘The Defining Decade’, this book attempts to answer the racing thoughts and worries of post grads to people in their mid 20s about what impact they can make while they are still young and full of energy and hope, but the execution was not clean. The mixture of biography and the writer’s thoughts on the subject were clunky; I would have introduced the subject THEN relay my thoughts on why this person is a great example of [insert characteristic], instead of the intermingling I was subjected to. Furthermore, the author could have dug deeper to provide an analysis or perspective that would not be so obvious to a reader after a precursor search answering, “where were they in life at 25, what put them in the history books, how did they do it?” The usual questions an elementary schooler needs to answer when writing a book report on an important figure.

Overall, this book could be better.

This was so close to being really good, but it fell a little flat. Would have liked a more modern take on things.

I really wanted to like this book, but I found it difficult to get through. I felt like it focused so much on the people they discussed and less about the implications of the people today. I thought it would be similar to the defining decade, but unfortunately not quite there.

I just reviewed Nailing It by Robert L. Dilenschneider. #NailingIt #NetGalley