If it's too good to be true?

Now what? I was googling away on behalf of a friend, checking out the cost of a book I recommended to her when lo and horrors behold, I find the book title with the word scam attached and a list of articles about online money making scams. I clicked on all the links, trying to silence the chorus of I-told-you-so's, but so far, have nothing conclusive to report about the book in question. I can report, however, that I've developed a sense of rattle in my gut. And what fun is that ? My fun bunny got shot at and is quaking under the covers, and I don't blame it. I'm wheedling as fast as I can, but it won't budge.

To be completely honest, now that I look back on it, there was a chapter in the book that got the rattle rocking a wee bit. It was the one where the leader of a group calls everyone together, drives them into the woods in the middle of the night and with no warning, abandons two of them, who are always sniping at one another, in the belief that they will find their way home and in the process overcome their differences. If you can't get along in the group, she says, you can't get along in the outside world. Which might well be true, but that wasn't what upset me so much as the idea of a trusted leader pulling such a dangerous power trip on unsuspecting women she's hoping will survive to thank her and succeed in the group in future. Bear in mind that one of the women is a young single mother whose child is a mere baby, the other, an out of shape middle aged widow in high heels fergawdsake ! My gut started wanging so loudly by this point in the chapter, that I exhaled loudly enough to cause honeybun next to me to mumble in his sleep. Even he knew something was up.

I haven't found any hard evidence that the advice in this book has been found scam worthy, YET, but my fun bunny's whiskers are twitching, and I want to pay attention. Watch this space.