PanThe AtlanticEven by the standards of faith-driven airport nonfiction, Communion is not very interesting ... If random disclosure of common-sense-defying detail is your idea of a searing, poignant journey into the light of faith, there’s more where that came from ... There is one interesting exception here to Vance’s lack of reflection on his political career: a two-page apology for his remarks about \'childless cat ladies\' ... When I say that Communion is a complete waste (of time, paper, the resources of the vice presidency, etc.), I really mean it.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
PanThe Week\"Unhinged is a mess, and a boring one at that. There are, all told, probably about 10 pages worth of material in the present volume that could possibly be of interest to anyone who was alive and above the age of reason at any point between August 2015 and the present ... The biggest problem with Unhinged is not that it is ultimately a shaggy-dog story or that it is full of bad writing and atrociously edited, but simply that it is not convincing ... 300-plus pages of unconvincing self-exculpation, mawkishness, and impossibly dull padding.\
