I'll credit you for indeed finding something "interesting", but there's a telling comparison to be made between the criticisms in this Amazon review and the criticisms made in Kovac's book.
The Amazon review is based on the premise that Kovac doesn't know what he's talking about at all (that's a tough sell, since Kovac runs a trading firm), and builds that argument through fuzzy error claims like "Kovac got the number of trading venues at a particular date wrong" (the whole value of Kovac's prop firm was that it traded in zillions of markets) or "Computerization was less impactful in bringing down spreads than decimalization".
Kovac's book, on the other hand, is hundreds of pages of page-by-page technical criticism of the Lewis book.
This reviewer was supplied by Kovac with a mountain of rebuttable claims. What they came up with was "Academic and industry researchers have certainly found compelling evidence of high frequency trading firms front-running demand". But "front-running demand" isn't a technical term; it's an advocacy label coined by people who oppose algorithmic trading!
When your mic-drop closing criticism, the one you expand upon in your "updated" critique, is a tautological restatement of the position you're advocating for, you're doing something other than technical criticism. Which is fine, but let's be clear about it.
The Amazon review is based on the premise that Kovac doesn't know what he's talking about at all (that's a tough sell, since Kovac runs a trading firm), and builds that argument through fuzzy error claims like "Kovac got the number of trading venues at a particular date wrong" (the whole value of Kovac's prop firm was that it traded in zillions of markets) or "Computerization was less impactful in bringing down spreads than decimalization".
Kovac's book, on the other hand, is hundreds of pages of page-by-page technical criticism of the Lewis book.
This reviewer was supplied by Kovac with a mountain of rebuttable claims. What they came up with was "Academic and industry researchers have certainly found compelling evidence of high frequency trading firms front-running demand". But "front-running demand" isn't a technical term; it's an advocacy label coined by people who oppose algorithmic trading!
When your mic-drop closing criticism, the one you expand upon in your "updated" critique, is a tautological restatement of the position you're advocating for, you're doing something other than technical criticism. Which is fine, but let's be clear about it.