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noriam_reads's review
3.0
Overall enthusiastic and positive. Suitable for when you're having a bad day and questioning your financial choices. Now! if it's accurate or not I can't tell since I don't live in the US or am able to use interest since it's forbidden in Islam. Maybe with some slight changes, one can dream of actually reaching certain financial freedom.
appaloosa05's review
2.0
Mixed feelings about this one. Any financial
book that begins with the assumption that I buy coffee out every morning, buy my lunch every day, spend $7 on a juice ever or pay for cable is going to mostly annoy me for awhile. There were some good points, but nothing all that new to me. I'm certainly glad I borrowed the audiobook from the library and didn't pay for this. It did inspire me to take another look at the budget tomorrow so I guess that's good? *shrugs*
book that begins with the assumption that I buy coffee out every morning, buy my lunch every day, spend $7 on a juice ever or pay for cable is going to mostly annoy me for awhile. There were some good points, but nothing all that new to me. I'm certainly glad I borrowed the audiobook from the library and didn't pay for this. It did inspire me to take another look at the budget tomorrow so I guess that's good? *shrugs*
holly_keimig's review
4.0
This book will not be for everyone. It is written in a very different style and it can easily be misunderstood as a rich guy telling everyone else what to do. That said, some of the underlying messages of this book have stuck with me. It is told as a parable almost or a fictional story where a barista explains to a younger adult how to fix her money woes. It does not tell you to skip coffee everyday which was refreshing from a money book. It is a good book to get people thinking about their money habits and why they are doing what they are doing with their careers. It gives a sliver of hope to anyone who is in debt or not good with money that they too can fix their financial situation. This would be a good book for someone in their early 20s to read. It is short and easy to get through. I read it in an afternoon all in one go.
mosthumanrobot's review
4.0
I was a bit of a pessimist going into this book, as I was thinking it was just another one of those self-help books by a millionaire telling poor people to 'save up!'. In a way, it is a bit like that, but I genuinely enjoyed the message this book purveyed.
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I found the fact that it was written like a fiction novel a bit cheesy, but it unexpectedly made it more palatable and enjoyable to read. The characters were pretty stock - but in a way - I feel many people can relate to the stock character of Zoey, working her 9-5 trying to get ahead in life.
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The '3 Rules' that it lists are easy enough to apply to your life, and don't neccesarily feel like lofty advice from someone significantly wealthier than you.
After finishing it, It had me doing some serious financial introspection.
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The rating is somewhere lost between 3 and 4 stars.
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I found the fact that it was written like a fiction novel a bit cheesy, but it unexpectedly made it more palatable and enjoyable to read. The characters were pretty stock - but in a way - I feel many people can relate to the stock character of Zoey, working her 9-5 trying to get ahead in life.
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The '3 Rules' that it lists are easy enough to apply to your life, and don't neccesarily feel like lofty advice from someone significantly wealthier than you.
After finishing it, It had me doing some serious financial introspection.
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The rating is somewhere lost between 3 and 4 stars.
antmacro's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
2.25
Just a book convincing you to save money, what more can I say.
imogenreads's review
2.0
What an incredibly irritating and boring way to detail out what could have been a 2500 word article.