Review: Wonderfully entertaining!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2012
The author tells the story of his "maladjusted" childhood beginning with his parents' divorce & mom's new husband, which included his stepbrother who "stole his room" then picked on him endlessly.After running away from home several times, the author chooses to go away to school. But, when he realizes the school is no better than home, he runs from there, too, which sets him on a loop of continual transfers as social workers try to find a school where he will stay put.in a narrative voice that gave me images of my favorite uncle telling me all of the sneaky things he did as a child, followed by a wink & a "don't tell grandma!" the author tells the story in an almost Huck Finn way, which will have you grinning, laughing, shaking your head & feeling sorry for his parents & social workers all at the same time.I had to knock off a star because of the authors tendency to use run-on sentences tho. That did make it very difficult to read at times as the lack of a period to separate 2 sentences interupts the flow when the reader has to go back & make sense of what he's saying. If it weren't for that, I'd have given 4 stars.Readers also need to be aware that there is a lot of Brittish slang used (bullocks, kip, shite), so load the dictionary on your kindle!