2.5 stars 

the beginning was great and interesting but it started to get not necessarily boring but i lost interest not even 100 pages into the book.

it’s rare that i say this but i think this story would have worked better as a novella with at most a 100 pages. 

i liked the idea of someone finding out someone they knew years ago became homeless and wants to help them get back on their feet. that in itself would have been a good story to tell, going in either direction of it working or not. but just a person seeing another needing support and trying to offer it would have been a good story.

but the rest became boring and repetitive pretty fast, sadly.
there is apparently an amount of time i am willing to hear or bad a job, a position or an entire group of people are before i want to skim read or stop entirely. 
there is also apparently an specific number attached to how often i want to hear about a particular mean worded ex-teacher talking down on other peoples work. 

overall?
this book had potential but it didn’t get there. and for being under 300 pages it was too long for what as actually said.