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Underqualified Advice
by Drew Hayes
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
I wanted to like this book.
Drew Hayes is one of my favorite authors. I eagerly await the remainder of his Spells Swords and Stealth series (starting with [b:NPCs|22088245|NPCs (Spells, Swords, & Stealth, #1)|Drew Hayes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1400095217l/22088245._SY75_.jpg|41426688] ) and I voraciously consumed his Super Powereds series ( [b:Super Powereds: Year 1|17879100|Super Powereds Year 1 (Super Powereds, #1)|Drew Hayes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1368127021l/17879100._SX50_.jpg|25037508] ).
There are things to appreciate about this book. There's interesting bits of short fiction. There's advice in here for aspiring and early career authors. It's a grab bag of stuff and I ought to be able to find useful bits of it to carry away, to find myself mulling over days or weeks or months later.
And I expect I will, a little.
The problem with this book is the over the top, continual dedication to the theme of binge drinking and alcoholism. I think maybe the author thought it was funny. It wasn't funny. It went so far past anything I could pretend was funny, straight through uncomfortable, and beyond uncomfortable well into whatever is after uncomfortable. The bits I take from this book aren't worth that.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/42a9ae9a-465c-44ee-a6a2-61e769492276
Drew Hayes is one of my favorite authors. I eagerly await the remainder of his Spells Swords and Stealth series (starting with [b:NPCs|22088245|NPCs (Spells, Swords, & Stealth, #1)|Drew Hayes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1400095217l/22088245._SY75_.jpg|41426688] ) and I voraciously consumed his Super Powereds series ( [b:Super Powereds: Year 1|17879100|Super Powereds Year 1 (Super Powereds, #1)|Drew Hayes|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1368127021l/17879100._SX50_.jpg|25037508] ).
There are things to appreciate about this book. There's interesting bits of short fiction. There's advice in here for aspiring and early career authors. It's a grab bag of stuff and I ought to be able to find useful bits of it to carry away, to find myself mulling over days or weeks or months later.
And I expect I will, a little.
The problem with this book is the over the top, continual dedication to the theme of binge drinking and alcoholism. I think maybe the author thought it was funny. It wasn't funny. It went so far past anything I could pretend was funny, straight through uncomfortable, and beyond uncomfortable well into whatever is after uncomfortable. The bits I take from this book aren't worth that.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/42a9ae9a-465c-44ee-a6a2-61e769492276
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Alcohol