Book Review

Turns your Readwise highlights into book reviews that actually synthesize ideas. It pulls every highlight from the book you're reviewing, extracts searchable claims from each one, then searches your entire Reader library for related material to build connections the book itself didn't make. The output is a three-part essay: summary, critique, and original arguments drawn from cross-referencing your reading history. Works with either the Readwise MCP tools or CLI. It leaves TODO markers where you need to add personal context, which is honest. The claim extraction step is the real work here, converting highlights into atomic assertions that become searchable across your library. Good for people who read enough that their highlights actually form a knowledge graph worth mining.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add readwiseio/readwise-skills --skill book-review --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Draft a long-form book review from a user's Reader highlights — not just the target book, but pulling in related highlights from their entire library to build original arguments.

The goal is a review that's more interesting than the book itself: summary + critique + original ideas, where the original ideas come from connecting the book to everything else the user has read.

Readwise Access

Check if Readwise MCP tools are available (e.g. mcp__readwise__reader_list_documents). If they are, use them throughout. If not, use the equivalent readwise CLI commands instead (e.g. readwise list, readwise read <id>, readwise highlights <id>, readwise search <query>). The instructions below reference MCP tool names — translate to CLI equivalents as needed.