The beginning was very good. River‘s childhood was quite sad &strange. It‘s clear throughout the book how he was used by his parents. classic scenario of child stars who are substance abusers and/or hanging by a thread but no one cares as long as they‘re bringing a paycheck
The book though was incredibly disjointed with random 90s stuff added in to fill out the whereabouts of the Phoenixes &friends. Things not fact checked, misspellings, etc.