How exciting can a book about the pandemic really be? This is a diary with a few notes of a year in Louis' life in the COVID-19 lockdown.

At the start, it was interesting to see how somebody else lived through it.

Then, maybe a third in, the middle class aspect got a little much for me. I spent the pandemic worrying about my health, as something with multiple chronic illnesses, and money, following job loss and furlough. With the undertones of not taking the pandemic fully seriously, it felt like a kick in the gut at points. Especially with the updates on the number of deaths. Openly admitting that nobody close to him had died might be making him feel distant from the virus, the family seems to blunder through a half hearted attempt to stay within the rules, like many in similar situations, sick of their children and not worried for the health of sick loved ones I'm sure. I very almost gave up, severely disappointed in something I thought I'd love when the moment they were able they went off on holiday as a family. Though there's frequent mention to their worries about their new filming company, they clearly had the means to get through okay.

Louis spends the majority of the book describing his growing alcoholism. Blackouts, snapping at his children when hungover, a growing distance with his wife. This is never fully resolved for all his speak about knowing it can't go on. It is life after all but something like this should never become an anecdote for a book, it should be looked at throughly.

The end of the book leans into the Tiger King follow up documentary and the behind the scenes of making this. This I enjoyed more but again, how interesting can zoom calls really be?

Overall, it's a very honest account of a man going insane in lockdown, working from home and failing at homeschooling his children. It's not for those who are still reeling with the loss of effects of the virus.

At the very least, it's honest.