Steady For This By Nathanael Lessore
Paperback published by Hot Key Books 27th April 2023
ISBN 9781471413223
YEAH THEY CALL ME GROWLS, I’M LIKE A TIGER ON THE PROWL.
Shaun (aka McGrowls) is ready to win Raptoology. But when a livestream goes epically wrong, Growls dirty laundry is exposed, literally. He’s finally achieved his dream of going viral just not in the good way. Now he’s a joke at school, there’s no way he can show his face at Raptology, and to cap it all of the council is banging on the door with an eviction notice. There’s only one way through. It’s time to step up to the mic …
MY REVIEW
I absolutely loved every page of, this teen novel of the year, Steady For This. The story is more like are you ready for this! It’s such a funny tale!
Growls, comes from a poor family where his mother cut’s back on everything including toothpaste.
His best friend Shanks comes from a family that is quite well off.
Lots of boys and girls that love music, or want to be the next upcoming rapper will adore reading this book.
Growls and Shanks are brilliant rappers. Growls dream in life is to be a famous rapper with lots of money, so he eat what ever he wants to, buy what ever he likes without having to ask for his mothers approval, and then he would have lots of girls attention leading to date any girl he wanted.
At school rapper Growls has the hots for a beautiful popular girl name Tanisha, all he has to do is get her to notice him.
When Growls finally gets a date with Tanisha, it ends, before it’s properly begun.
Shaun and Growls decide to enter a rapping competition, online where everyone from school logs into, but Growls mother doesn’t realise that they are rapping online and little does his mum know she is on camera too, and not just ruins everything virtually online for Growls but embarrasses Growls so much that he doesn’t know how he will face school the next day.
This is the most best middle grade novel I have ever read, that’s why I’m very happy to recommend it to all readers including adults too.
Nathanael Lessore was born in Camberwell, South East London, as one of eight children to French and Madagascan parents. Although he spent most of his life in Peckham, Nathanael has also lived in Paris, Strasbourg, and Singapore. Nathanael became a Marketing Executive after graduating from the University of East London, believing at the time that a Creative Writing degree destined him for a career in marketing. Writing his first book, Steady For This, gave him the opportunity to show his South East London childhood as the funny, warm, adventurous world that wasn’t always represented as such
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