KICKING FINANCIAL ASS by Paul Christopher Dumont

KICKING FINANCIAL ASS

 by

 Paul Christopher Dumont

✯✯✯                                                                   Review by Astrid Galactic

Trying to keep your financial house in order is one of life's more daunting tasks yet ever so necessary. Kicking Financial Ass is a guide to help you do just that. Paul Christopher Dumont takes you through many of the various aspects of finances one must tackle from early in life through retirement as well as a way to psychologically look at how you look at finances and what you need to make you happy. 

Personally, I found this book to be a mixed bag of advice. Some very good while I found a few things not all that accurate or maybe forced to fit an outcome. Like so many other books on personal finance, it tended to lean towards being way too cookie cutter by totally ignoring so many other demographics and factors that exist in real life that just did not fit any of these guidelines. Some of the numbers were also way off. All too often, I found myself trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. Good advice for the square pegs but impossible for the round ones. 

Early on in the book, Dumont mentioned that his intended audience was for millennials. After reading the book, it really is best marketed to millennials as much of it didn't do a whole lot to be all that helpful for anyone older though could help those younger. That's all fine and good but I feel that there should be some notation of that on the cover. 

The book is not an one size fits all guide by any means but still contains some basic understanding that is very useful. Rather than nitpick on specifics, I think it's best to do what financial advisers always suggest (which, oddly wasn't mentioned in the book) and to diversify. In other words, diversify your financial reading material and hone it all down to what suits your own personal life circumstances. Also understand that what might work today in Dumont's suggestions may not work at all in the future. Extract what you can from the book to help set you off onto the road of personal finances but keep learning and paying attention to any changes and warnings along the way.


Thanks to NetGalley for a free copy of the book for a fair and honest review.

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Non-Fiction

Finance

Paperback, 290 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1999132606

Publisher: Paul Christopher Dumont

Release Date: August 6, 2019

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