Frankie Gibbs, an unambitious adolescent on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his brother Dazzler out of the North Wales care system. Poverty isn’t Frankie’s only obstacle, as their boozing, coke-head single-parent father, Guy Gibbs, heaps misery on their plight through systematic abuse and never-ending wild parties.

Before we start this review I need to be hones there and confess that I struggled a lot to finish this book. Because I had a lot problems with staying engaged in the plot of this book. With that being said lets get into the review without making the intro longer than it needs to be.

The first thing I want to say about this book is that this book makes it clear that the author has a lot of talent for immersive storytelling, but this book felt to me like some weird line of consciousness rather than being a well structured book. And this is the main reason why I found this book to be so difficult to stay engaged in.

The characters in this book are okay, they have a fair share of personalities to them. But I personally couldn’t find in me the strength to actually like them because of this I just couldn’t bring myself to give this book a good rating as I wanted to when I started reading this book. 

But the thing I liked the most about this book is that it talks about a pretty seriously and dark subject, which I always like when it happens. But unfortunately that was the only thing I liked about this book.

The main thing about this book which I didnt like about this book is the amount of “Fuck”s this book has. I personally dont mind swear words (I use them too often to mind) but this book felt like it was trying to set the word record on how many “Fuck”s it contains. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5