Review: Humourous
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2012
I found this book while on Twitter. I'm a published author and am currently involved in the Indie Author scene. I purchase Kindle books through my husband's Amazon account, but have stopped putting my book reviews on his account and am doing them on mine. In all honesty, I could not finish this book, it was so bloody dull. Church has some great one liners that made me laugh, and the teachers and administrators are all buffoons. I believe that most people are buffoons, so that isn't actually a surprise. The book's focal point is an English teacher at The Radley Hill School. Why this English teacher has the Shrek film for his 10th formers is beyond me, kids usually have stopped finding Shrek funny at all way before first form, IME.The pub scenes are fine, but I have no sense of what kind of school this is as it appears that the students' parents are tattooed and  lower middle classe. I stopped reading because the English teacher is an idiot. He is asked to put on the Christmas play and he has no idea what he is doing. His fellow teachers don't even appear to know that indeed, Shakespeare mostly writes about death and there is nothing EASY about a Shakespearean play. The protagonist doesn't really seem like he knows what he is doing, and we have no background of whether he actually has the credentials to even be a teacher.My other annoyance was Church constantly saying, as an example, "We were sat drinking tea..." I read to 40% and I ran into the "We were sat..." sentence repeatedly. I had no idea if that was some bizarre vernacular from some part of England I had never been to or what it was, but I found it disgustingly annoying. @krautgrrl says: If you can subsist on one-liners then pick up this book, otherwise, wait for something else to spend your $2.99 on, as this is just not worth the money.