Dara Skolnick's Reviews > Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

I enjoyed this book, like I enjoy pretty much everything Russell Brand writes. He’s quite wise and insightful and has clearly gone through a lot of personal growth. So why non-glowing rating? First, if half stars were allowed, I’d give it a solid 3.5 rather than a 3. With that aside, I felt a bit misled by the book’s subtitle, how to help and be helped. There wasn’t much of that in the book at all, but rather a look back at Russell Brand’s own mentors and their impact on his life. It was still a good read with some nuggets of wisdom, but it wasn’t what I thought it would be, which is a little more instructional, or directed at least somewhat at the reader’s life rather than being mostly a look at the author’s.

TL;DR: expectation mismatch but well written!