This is a great book for anyone about to be turning 13 or 18 years old. It has everything you need to know as you enter those stages in life. It has things like career choices, home chores, tax filing, how to respect others, and many more. I would recommend this book to anyone becoming a teen or adult. It would be very helpful to them. I would also buy this book when it officially comes out.

While it doesn't contain any problematic or innacurate content—though maybe an American reviewer could check the accuracy of its contents about taxes and part-time work—the Life Skills Book for Teens simply doesn't deliver on its promise of preparing its readers for "everything you need to know" about adulthood. A lot of very elementary skills took up the pages, such as how to wash the dishes or fold one's laundry. For teenagers in the age range the book targets (16+), this information simply isn't useful.

Even when the book attempts to tackle more relevant information—the last chapter pivots from car maintenance to living with roommates—it often falls flat. Most of these chapters read like half-baked listicles due to their general, one-paragraph "advice" and lack of actual insight. Once, the author suggested, in the context of registering for the Selective Service, the author simply tells the reader to go to the website. There's no explanation for what the Selective Service is (unfamiliar to me as a non-American reader) or anecdotal comparisons for what one might expect. Half of this advice could be tweets and it wouldn't make a difference.

Ultimately, I left this book disappointed, frustrated, and more than a little puzzled as to how it could be marketed for 16+ readers.

Thank you to NetGalley and Callisto Teens for providing me with a digital ARC of this title.