Stephanie Wilen wants to read The Girl He Used to Know

"Great and candid book by the legend himself, Rassie Erasmus. He takes you from his upbringing and schooling in Despatch, where he saw the great Danie Gerber and the other hard men of Despatch playing rugby and only dreamt of representing Despatch First XV. This was really interesting to see his circumstances in which he grew up and how that formed him as the man he became.

He takes you more behind the scenes during his rugby playing career for the Cheetahs, the Cats and the Springboks, I remember this time as I was a teen back then and Erasmus was one of my favorite players as I also played flanker at the time. His coaching career then took off for the Cheetahs where he led them to their first Currie Cup trophy in decades. Here he quickly caught everyone's attention with his colored lights used to guide his team and his new tactics which made that Cheetahs team so successful.

He went on to work with South Africa's different national teams, before heading to Munster in Ireland for a few years. His greatest achievement though was when he came back to coach the Springboks in 2018. SA was ranked number 7 in the world at this time, just 18 months before the 2019 World Cup in Japan, and what Rassie did in those 18 months is just incredible where he steered us to an unlikely World Cup win, and inspired our nation during really dark days domestically.

The last part of the book cover the 2021 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa and all the controversies surrounding the series that centered around the Rassie Video and his criticism of match officials and the fall out of that which lead to his yearlong match days ban.

The book was published before the 2023 World Cup and the Springbok triumph there that just cemented Rassie's legend status even more. Rassie is a true patriot and his love for SA Rugby, and rugby in general shines through in this book. If you're a South African, you love Rassie for everything he has done for this country and because he is a lekker ou. And though other nations may hate him for his outspokenness, no one can deny that Rassie is truly one of the all time great coaches in rugby that is at the forefront of innovation and really thinks outside the box. I cannot wait to see what Rassie and his team comes up with this next in our quest for the three-peat!!
GO BOKKE!!"

"4.5/5 rounded up.
Sean Scoffield's art goes hard! Best art I seen in a while but it might be recency bias. Still though he is super unique so we will leave it at that.
His drawings were very realistic I loved them, reminded me so much of Alex Ross.
The story was very solid and very beautiful too 5/5 star simply perfection.
Second story normal art but as I said before normal is good enough for this title at least it's not horrible.
Story is really good the story definitely takes 5/5 stars from me, the art takes 3/5.
The Marvel a super hero who retired for 43 years and lived happily with his wife.
Turns out he was a mutant who could think up anything and it would be so real for him.
Then M Day happened and the dude lost his power.
And now he is in an institution for the mentally ill.
His wife isn't there anymore, he doesn't believe that she isn't there anymore and still thinks the super villain which was his nemesis is behind her disappearance.
Why Mr. Tawfek did you tell this entire story?
Because it wasn't clear while reading what the hell was happening, so I did some digging.
There is no hero called The Marvel ever before this or after this.
This is an M-Day story so perfect conclusion is that this poor guy lost his mutant power and with it his perfect happy life."