Skimming reviews and I feel compelled to say this: If you didn’t think there were social and political undertones in the first three books of this series, you need to reread them.

Predictable, but fascinating. I couldn’t put it down and read it in a day. In the acknowledgments section in the back of the book, the author writes that when she wrote it she didn’t know if it was brilliant and bizarre or just bizarre. I think brilliant is quite a stretch, but it was definitely engrossing and also bizarre.

There is some good stuff in here, but anything that basically says if you work harder and think about money, you’ll get richer is just the most obnoxious advice that makes my skin crawl. It’s a total disregard, again and again, that the hardest working people are often far from the wealthiest. In fact, they’re usually being controlled and oppressed by the world’s wealthiest. Not to mention inherent systemic racism and sexism combined with fundamental class warfare which are all such basic facts about the world that if your personal development / self help book not only never acknowledges it but in fact pretends it doesn’t exist, then you’re not doing your job. So, even though there are nuggets of wisdom in here that are actually good takeaways, I can’t recommend this.