I wasn’t sure when I started this whether I would like it but decided to read it anyway and have to admit it did have me laughing in places. Shaun is 13 and he plans to become the next big Rapper calling himself MC Growls alongside his friend Shanks. They want to enter the Rap competition coming up and in order to impress a girl Shaun stream their training session live on YouTube, unfortunately this does not quite go to plan when an embarrassing event gets streamed instead and now everybody is laughing at them.
The story is told by Shaun, his genuine lack of knowledge and mistakes in history, language (mistaking words for similar ones), and comical errors (getting stuck in a pushchair and taking a yoghurt as a snack to the cinema are favourites), leads to a lovely light easy read.
The story does look at some serious issues, debt, threat of eviction, stress, redundancy, health problems, homeschooling, but it is a fun story with a happy ending.
The story is told by Shaun, his genuine lack of knowledge and mistakes in history, language (mistaking words for similar ones), and comical errors (getting stuck in a pushchair and taking a yoghurt as a snack to the cinema are favourites), leads to a lovely light easy read.
The story does look at some serious issues, debt, threat of eviction, stress, redundancy, health problems, homeschooling, but it is a fun story with a happy ending.