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I can't comment on the review, but I will say that I have read books that I couldn't put down. What that means to most readers, although obviously not to Dr. Drib, is that the reader picked up the book to continue reading it at every available opportunity and even stayed awake at night longer than usual trying to get in one more chapter.
No, I don't write books and no, I don't review books I have written (mainly because I haven't written any) and the very few books I do review, I have bought just like any other consumer. I make it a policy not to review on my blog any books given to me by an author.
Although it has been quite sometime since I read a book I couldn't put down (although one I am currently reading comes close, "Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" by Sara Helm, and one I recently finished also came close, "The Darkling Child: The Defenders of Shannara" by Terry Brooks), the last I can recall being "Sentence of Marriage" by Shayne Parkinson, such books do exist and most readers actually come across a few such books in their lifetimes.
In the case of the Parkinson book, I know several people to whom I recommended the book who also found it hard to put down and return to mundane chores that need doing in the real-world. (I have no connection to and have never met Parkinson, who lives oceans away from me.)
My point is that because you haven't yet read such a book doesn't mean others haven't; all it means is that you have yet to experience the greatest pleasure a reader can have -- finding a book so whose writing and story are so compelling that the reader wishes he/she could ignore life until it was finished.
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