First off, before I even go into whether I liked this book or not, I have to ask the question – did anyone edit this book before publishing it?? The number of grammar, spelling, and sentence structure errors I found in this book was ridiculous to the point that it really affected my ability to get through the book. The Kindle edition was only 99 pages, which normally would be a very quick read for me, but this one was laborious because of all the errors, since I'm the type who gets really distracted and frustrated when I see grammar and/or spelling errors in books. It also didn't help that, topic-wise, the author seemed to be all over the place, which made it even harder to follow what her main point was. At times, it appeared that she actually supported the "tiger mom" approach to parenting while other times, it felt like she was outraged at such a parenting style and was venting her frustrations with it.
If you were to ask me whether I liked this book or not, I would have to answer "not really." Granted, the author did make a few good points when comparing the two styles of parenting, but those same points were talked about over and over again, to the point of being overly repetitive. From an originality perspective, there really wasn't anything said in this book that hadn't already been said previously by someone else (I personally didn't learn anything new). In fact, I actually felt like 99 pages was too long for what the author had to say – take out all the repetitive stuff and this book easily could have been half the length it was. Actually, at several points throughout the book, I kind of felt like I was reading someone's (poorly written) term paper rather than an actual published book.
Basically, this book isn't worth the time to read. For those who are interested in this topic, there are way better books out there that talk about parenting styles in the East vs West that are better written for one and also way more informative and entertaining.
(Read in January 2017)
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