Good read but too much advertising
594669
Interesting read if you are here in Florida but too much advertising for Walmart and Bass Pro Shops.  Story line is cute and will continue reading it.
641326
Overall a good book, but the author needs to be made aware that slandering local Denver businesses by name and location is immediate grounds for a lawsuit.  In addition, a few subjects like mirepoix are not really secrets.  Any cook trying to start a catering business should know what that is or they shouldn't be a cook.  The content is relatively useful, but nothing that new in the world of catering.  There are more informative books out there, but this is still an entertaining read.  Ms. George also includes a part about cooking near a toilet???  Not appropriate when discussing food.  Ewww.  I'll leave my review at that.  Judge for yourself.
4694433
It's a fascinating magazine with great articles.  It is for your wealthier backpacker.  It would be nice to see some features that include a few less new fangled gadgets, because I'm guessing the average reader back packs and camps and would like to do it on the cheap.  And there are so many sponsors for this writers that the articles are littered with product placement. Still informative and fun to read.
4552321
It was a good read with a good message.  I will definitely use a lot of the information from the book.

But, it got redundant.  It seemed like the author was repeating the same thing over and over just to fill in space.  I am a fan of Apple.  But, I got sick of hearing over and over about how great Apple is.

I read the whole book.  But, I was tuned out and just going through the motions about halfway through.
4059512
I found this book interesting but too commercialized by adding their website for further guidance re their beliefs which contained too many offshoot programs relating specifically to this book and too many pushy emails.
832724
I liked the story and the mystery was fairly decent, but they give away too much information in the product description and the book jacket.
That information covers more than the first fourth of the book!
I would rather have found out about the murder on my own (by reading the story) instead of reading about it on the back of the book before I
had even started.

It is interesting how Darko manages with so few resources, he has to provide his own vehicle and often works odd hours.
The interplay between the murder victim, her husband, and her inlaws at the beginning of the book was quite compelling.

The friction between Darko, an atheist, and his religious wife that crops up during the murder investigation seemed very
realistic.

I was rather disappointed by the very end of the story, but I can't say more than that without getting into spoilers.

Recommended
913347
The author does a terrific job explaining in great detail what Hinduism is all about.  But I must agree with another reviewer that it often comes across as a sales pitch, sprinkled with anti-American political swipes throughout.  If you ignore these shortcomings, it's a pretty good overview.
4207807
Helped me understand what is going on with my body during this strange menopausal phase.  However, I hate it when I get a good book with great information and it ends up with a suggestion to buy some product from the author.... to be it deducts some of the author's legitimacy as their premise is weakened as the book ends up to be a sales promotion tool instead of a knowledge tool.
1172778
This book has many great insights, but I will not give it 5 stars because in too many parts (and it is annoying) it looks like its main purpose was advertisement and promotion of Investors business daily and bragging how good the tools are. It reminds any next investment guru, which claims my system works very well, but only if you buy my super duper software for 5 grand.
3690886
I buy an Almanac every year. I'd give it five stars if not for the oppressive number of advertisements.
4208966
The book is decent for giving common sense advice on how to not let too many distractions effect your business. However, there is way too much content from their other book to justify this book as being separate.
1347363
A valuable book, but with one basic message that is repeated over and over: bloggers will write anything to get get page views to make money from advertising. This was written in 2012, however. Now that we have Adblocker, how has the business changed?
241523
I agree with every other reviewers that there are way too many Ads in this magazine. However, I do like the content of it. Its healthy to keep reading these small yet informative and entertaining articles. I also like the way they are keeping up with new-age social media.
2761323
Very good read. However, though I can't remember which, one of the chapters pushes an agenda just enough to be tacky.
3464943
Hey , I like this author, this particular book and the series it ends.  Solid story with good.moral lessons, plus some prepping and self-reliance tips sprinkled throughout. Great stuff.

I do have a  beef, though.  Way too much space in each book is given to summarizing all of the previous books, characters, etc.  Then of course, at the end they have to advertise not only the next book in the series, but every other series.the author has ever written.

Altogether, that adds up to about 25 to 35% of each book being, essentially,  advertising for other works by the authors.  That leaves precious little room to actually deliver the current plot and character development.  This last book in the series, especially,  suffers from this problem.

Please, give us more story and less advertising.
3198077
The story was good but it was made clunky by so much social info.  Too much info it may as well be a public service announcement.
4320265
This is a well written story, the plot is entertaining and the ending, though obvious, welcome.  The one thing I didn't like is the constant and repetitive use of brand names... it is very annoying, a flaw that is all over her other books as well. Clearly not enough to not make them readable, just bothersome and unnecessary