Review: Idiot Government Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
The Idiot Government Reviews is the third in the Idiot Reviews series.  Like the first two books, the entire story unfolds through a series of Amazon product reviews, and as with the first two books, the fact that the author found a way to pull together various products and weave them into the plot of his story is quite impressive.  Unfortunately, this book falls a bit short of the first two.  It could be that a lack of understanding of the British government system hampers the reading experience for a foreign audience (some of the references were a bit unclear), but there were a few other problems with this book as well.  First, there were a number of grammatical problems (missing words, typos, and similar textual problems).  Additionally, the characters were a bit hard to distinguish sometimes.  One of the things that made the first book (The Village Idiot Reviews) work so well in this style is that each character was quite unique and had their own "voice" that was immediately recognizable when reading one of the product reviews.  That wasn't the case in this book -- I often didn't know which character was pushing the story until reaching the end of the review and seeing the character name.  I also had trouble remembering who each character was and how they related to each other -- really only Cameron Davies and Daniel Dangly stood out.  Overall, the "idiot reviews" series is a creative idea, and attempting to apply it to various environments and groups of characters is an interesting challenge -- but, I just felt that this one fell a bit short of the initial book.