Let's see from some diff perspectives.. this is the 1st time ur reading a bk in the series. If then, this might be one of the good bks u have read before. Now let's look in my perspective. I have all the 16 bks, each one close to my heart no matter what yr it is. I was very excited to see what's new and I get this. Nothing was memorable in that bk. It just wrote about rodrick which would have actually been done well but it didn't. It felt awkward. The other 16 bks were tope tier. From tier a to c. This was a "e" which is very generous from my side. After reading every single thing felt unnecessary and it feels like rodrick was lazy to write in his diary so he forced Greg to write it