Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) new memoir earned a stinging review in The New York Times on Monday.

Jennifer Szalai, the newspapers nonfiction book critic, slammed The Courage to Be Free: Floridas Blueprint for Americas Survival, released Tuesday, as reading like a politicians memoir churned out by ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot.

As governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has been casting himself as a Trump-like pugilist, Szalai wrote. But the overall sense you get from reading his new memoir is that of the mechanical try-hard someone who has expended a lot of effort studying which way the wind is blowing in the Republican Party and is learning how to comport himself accordingly.

The culture war Mad Libs cant distract from the dull coldness at this books core, the critic added. The likely 2024 presidential candidates attempts at soaring rhetoric are mostly too leaden to get off the ground, she added.

Despite attacks by Trump, DeSantis tries his best to tiptoe around the Trump dragon in his memoir, Szalai pointed out.

Read the full review here.