Compelling, inspiring and engaging from start to finish. Check out our Mike Majlak The Fifth Vital review.
About The Fifth Vital Book
Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair.
While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends.
Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him.
Alone, with nothing but drugs to keep him company, darkness closed in, and the light inside him–the last flicker of hope–began to dim.
His dreams, potential, and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight. Despair filled him as he realized he wasn’t going to survive.
Somehow, he did…
HE NOT ONLY SURVIVED,
HE THRIVED.
Now he’s a social media personality with millions of followers, and an entrepreneur, marketer, podcaster, YouTuber, and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim.
This is his story.
Review
It’s very rare that I pick up celebrity orientated books. The majority of these books comprise of a life served up on a plate for them by a rich parent or an undeserved opportunity landing upon their lap serving up the easy route to the top.
It’s mainly the reason why we don’t review books on Back to the Movies. Nothing ever feels deserved or earned and I’m a firm believer in working hard to achieve a dream no matter what that dream may be.
Personal struggles, overcoming personal demons and getting through the darkest of times to not only come out the other side alive but come out the other side actively improving your life far beyond what you can have ever imagined. Now that’s a story!
Kane Hodder’s book Unmasked was one of the first books that totally hooked me from start to finish. A bullied kid who always wanted to be a stuntman who got horribly burned to the point of death who recovered and became a horror movie legend.
Robert Englund’s book Hollywood Monster, a number of Corey Taylor books, Slash’s autobiography and The Motley Crue book The Dirt have been the only books in existence to ever grab my attention.
The first being a collection of overcoming the odds and chasing a dream and the Motley Crue book, well, that’s just batshit crazy and fun to read from start to finish!
I don’t really follow vloggers or social media influencers I’m just kinda doing my own thing over here but I was here, at home in my isolated state when I decided to watch some YouTubers one day.
During isolation, I wanted to see how their content dynamics had changed since the lockdown.
I stumbled across a Logan Paul video, and watched my first ever Logan Paul VLOG. A guy who’s constantly hounded by the press and can’t go a step wrong without making another headline. But at the same time someone who genuinely seems like a down to earth guy who’s using his fame to provide a better life for those around him and bring them on his journey with them.
Within this video was Mike Majlak. Mike always seemed to come across as the wise one, the guy with his head screwed on. The older guy in the group who has the experience and the know-how to guide this crazy train of fame whilst maintaining a level-head.
I ended up on Mike’s own YouTube channel where he and girlfriend Lana Rhodes were chatting to people on Omegle and a group of fans caught my attention.
They weren’t fans of Mike’s but had an idea of who he was through association, they simply named Mike ‘Logan’s assistant’ which annoyed me.
I don’t know Mike, I’ll never speak to Mike but judgements like that bug me. This is a guy who has millions of followers, a book that’s now a bestseller on Amazon, he’s making waves in the vlogging community, has his own merchandise line and streams of passive income only to be labelled as ‘Logan’s assistant’.
F**k that.
I hopped onto Amazon and purchased his book The Fifth Vital as I’m all for people chasing dreams but little did I know the struggle that Mike had gone through to finally get to where he is today.
As mentioned earlier, Both Kane Hodder and Robert Englund’s books inspired me to jump into this pool of self-employment, quit my job and fly to LA from the UK a week after quitting to work on a movie.
Books and tales inspire me in my own life to keep chasing dreams. Now it seems I have another book to add to that list.
Author Riley J. Ford has crafted a well-rounded story around Mike. She has crafted the book in a way that brings the story down to earth. Many celebrity books always have this ‘talking down’ way of being written where they sit atop a pedestal and preach their success. Certainly not here.
This book sees Mike in the gutter, lower than low and the life choices that he made to battle his demons and better his life.
It’s well worth a read. Knowing that no matter your upbringing or your situation you and you alone can change that. Your mentality and perseverance is put to the test to see you grow as a person and to further your ambitions.
Any book that gives me the confidence or reassurance needed to keep chasing a dream is a book I’m proud to have in my collection.
Overall
I hope you liked this little Mike Majlak The Fifth Vital review!
Whilst I don’t condone the actions that Mike took in his past, he wouldn’t be the person he is today without those experiences.
We all have done some crazy things but it’s how you deal with them, overcome them and use them as building blocks to better yourself that define the person that will be remembered long after you’ve gone.
No matter what point you are at in your own life you could pick this book up at any chapter and learn a lesson or two.
Make changes to your own life, remove the negativity and pursue a passion.
Not many people have the guts to do such a thing but if you take the leap you may just surprise yourself.
Mike Majlak The Fifth Vital review by Sean Evans
Well worth a read, Mike Majlak The Fifth Vital is now available on Amazon
Our Rating
Summary
We don’t do book reviews often here on Back to the Movies but this one felt right.
Mike’s wit and charm shines through the pages and no longer should this 35 year old guy from Milford, Connecticut be labelled as ‘Logan Paul’s assistant’.
A book that allows Mike to show the world who he is, admit his mistakes and show whoever is reading that there’s plenty more good things to come.
