Hva gjør du når du står med din første lønnsslipp i hånden og lurer på hvorfor staten skal ha flere tusen kroner? Hva skjer hvis du lar være å betale regningene dine? Og hvordan kan du spare til det du virkelig ønsker deg når du alltid ender opp med minus på konto?

At the time of writing this review, this book is only available in Norwegian. So if you are Norwegian or understand Norwegian then this review will be just for you. 

I gotta admit that this book is sort of a Norwegian version of “Personal Finance for Dummies”. Because of how easy and simple this book is. 

I gotta admit here that this book is very fun to read because it has a lot of illustrations which makes it even easier to understand what the book is talking about. But at the same time the book offers us very good tricks and tips at how to improve our wealth and finances. Like one of the tips this book gives us is when you are renting an apartment / house or buying an apartment/ house with a friend, sibling or your boyfriend / girlfriend. No many how good your the other person relationship is, its always better to write a simple contract between the two of you. The contract should be about everything, who pays what, who paid more in deposit, who has a bigger apartment/ house loan etc. the contract really makes everything simple because if you and your friend or boyfriend / girlfriend if you two stop being friend or you or the other person wants to move out. 

This book has other very good tips which it talks about, but I’m not gonna reveal more of them, because this book is really worth reading if you are interested in improving your personal finances and become better at using your money. 

The thing which kept me from giving this book the perfect score of 5 out of 5, is the thing that this book is very narrow and specific. At the same time it keeps the topics it talks about very brief and avoid going into the details of those topics. Which for me personally wasn’t enough to give this book a higher rating than 3 stars which I gave this book.

At the same time this book feels like a very quick summary of much better personal finance and wealth books which I have read and talked about in the past. Because this book touches on the subjects most other personal finance and wealth books talks about, but this book makes it much more shallow and brief because it doesn’t go into the details of anything it talks about.

But if you are getting started with the personal finance and wealth books then this book is a good choice. Because as I’ve said above this book is very simple and easy which makes it very easy to understand and get the hang of. And a lot of the better personal finance and wealth books aren’t as easy and simple to understand as this one is. Which makes this book a good start if you are interested in books about how to improve your personal finance and how to get smarter using the money you earn from your job.

At the same time this book has a very good structure, because each chapter has its own theme. Like one chapter is about loans, the other is about what loans you should avoid, the next chapter is about how to save money and so on. Which really makes it easy for you to pick where you want to start reading the book. 

The writing style of this book is very good, because it really uses the day to day language most people use. And in a way this writing style makes this book to be a quick read, since the writing style makes it feel like you are having a coffee shop conversation with the author rather than reading a book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5