sarahetc 's review for:

The Hour That Matters Most: The Surprising Power of the Family Meal by Les Parrott III

1.0

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Super duh for me, but maybe not for you. That said, there's so much of this book that is just so very square one, for lack of a better term, that I don't know how anybody who cares enough to understand that a family eating together is a good thing and goes so far as to seek out a book about it, will not already know half of this. For real, I'm trying to picture the moms and dads for whom this book is a revelation and I can't because I don't want to think about people like that existing. I know they do, but I don't want to think about it.

This book isn't about meals so much as it's a respectful communication manual with a few recipes thrown in. There are large chunks dedicated to pull-quotes and vaugely off-topic annecdotes. The whole thing comes across like three friends got together and said, "I'm a shrink and you have a frozen meal business. We could totes make bank with a book!" Hodge-podge together some recipes and tips on active listening and voila! For sale on Kindle, $1.99.

Long story short (too late), it wasn't bad. It just wasn't worthwhile.