Events in order:
1. The email told us to meet the guide in a particular square, but then he contacted us telling us we were "late"; apparently we were meant to meet in a different square, but were never updated on the change? Instead of him finding us, we had to go to him - luckily we already knew our way around by then.
2. I forget his name, but our guide said he was the owner of the business. We were all from out of state and were wearing masks (due to COVID), whereas he neither had a mask nor offered to wear one, and had a very loose definition of 6-foot distancing. Not surprisingly, I guess, since within the first 5min we received COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY insight into his socio-political opinions regarding the disruption caused by the pandemic, BLM protests (which he referred to as "fires and riots"), Confederate Statues being "right where they belong", liberal over-sensitivity not belonging in Savannah's laid-back and unproblematic utopia, and commenting that issues like racism are more of a problem "where we come from", etc. Yes, we failed to bite our tongue at some of these remarks, but regardless of whether or not he thought we shared his opinions (which none of us did), it was flatly unprofessional, especially in front of strangers who were just there for a freaking book tour.
3. He'd asked which of us read the book and/or saw the movie. One of us didn't read the book, everyone else had, and no one had seen the movie. We specifically asked that the tour be book-focused (which the Savannah Walks website already implies). Although we enjoyed seeing the landmarks, hearing the stories, etc., it was by and large a MOVIE tour, with filming locations, actors, props, etc. given quite a bit of focus that...frankly meant very little to our group when we'd explicitly said we hadn't seen the movie.
It wasn't a terrible tour, it was informative and our guide was largely friendly and sociable, but if we could do it over we'd 100% go with one of Savannah's many other Book and Walking tours.