I read this entire book in the time it took between boarding my plane in Dublin and landing in Birmingham: it was a short, easy read with virtually no description. The entire novel is told through transcripts of YouTube videos and the comments on each one, which wasn't what I was expecting based on the blurb, so it was a bit of a surprise but after a bit of confusion, it became easy to distinguish what was going on.

I have to give credit where credit's due as despite this essentially being a dialogue novel, I had pretty clear images of every setting and what was going on at all times, from a few words or the occasional scene-setting sentence at the start of a chapter. However, that's where my praise for this book ends.

The story follows Jake, a teen actor who was cut from the show he was on (in the likes of Eastenders / Corrie / Emmerdale). After finding himself homeless and jobless, he starts making videos with his friends to tell the story of what happened - why he had to leave the show and how he ended up on the streets.

I felt as though I was supposed to sympathise with Jake, but I just couldn't. He came off as a rude, senseless, arrogant brat. He left a perfectly decent living situation with his parents and brother in order to couch surf and live homelessly instead, refusing to see them and abandoning his severely autistic brother. He was a jerk of a character and there was no redemption.

The entire book felt like some sort of celebrity apology that manages to do everything but apologise. Based on the comments on the videos from Jake's family and former friends, he's a lying arsehole, so I didn't care for his situation or his story, and he gave me no reason to.