I had the opposite problem, where I told one of my brothers that I wanted to have the video game Life is Strange for christmas, but got an Amazon 🤢 gift card and a bunch of gummy bears. Weirdly enough, the game costed around 20€ when I send him a link to the page where he could buy it, but he gave me a 25€ gift card.

That book is a dumpster fire. I read it once and it was propaganda for american exceptionalism with a story built around it.

The author probably should read his own book, he gave enough fucks to censor the swear

The only time I read a work by him was that one time I found the first three instalments of his Rush Revere series in a thriftstore. Well, I didn’t know anything about this dude when I bought it, considering that he’s not that popular in Germany compared to the US, but well…

I should’ve guessed that somethings odd with him when the foreword of the first book openly talks about that it will show kids how great american exceptionalism is. IIRC, it also had a weirdly naive outlook on US history, always stressed that the country is the land of the free but kept looking over all the bigotry. Oh, I think the last one I read was also weirdly pro-war/pro-army, because one of the main characters had to come to terms with the fact that is father is a soldier or something?

Whatever, I probably wouldn’t have bought the set if I knew more about him before.