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Must Be Nice

Jason Kotecki · 2023
60/100
👎 Skip It

The reframe at the heart of this book — turn envy into self-discovery — is genuinely useful and Kotecki's cartoonist sensibility likely keeps the tone from getting heavy-handed. But the dossier finds no independent critical coverage and the audience appears to be largely the authors' own speaking-circuit community, which makes it hard to know whether the tools actually land for readers outside that world. A promising premise that lacks the evidence base to confidently recommend.

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safety95
substance58
craft60
originality62
accuracy55
hype62
age-fit78
human-eye55
Penny’s verdict60
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