Boring! Too dry and a lot of details about financial stuff which was a snooze fest. DNF within first couple of pages but did look through photos and browsed to the recent chapters, but they were boring too.

There were parts of this that I found really interesting- particularly Simon Fuller with his hands in all the pots behind the scene (I would like a book looking in to all the shady things he has done next). But this book has a very overall negative tone to it, especially where Victoria is concerned. I know the tabloids wrote awful things about her body in the 2000s, but I don't think it was necessary to repeat quite so many of them.

Tom Bower has mastered the art of writing unauthorised biographies. This book shocked me because I realised I forgot most of the Beckham scandals I previously read in magazines or online. How they managed to rise from those scandals is beyond me. However, it also shocked me to see how clueless and ignorant Victoria actually is. Before this book, Victoria seemed like the mastermind, master manipulator of news and the family image, but she cannot even give an interview without even contradicting what she said a paragraph earlier. David Beckham was talented, and I think it’s a shame that he was deceived/convinced into ditching his football career in Europe, because Victoria wanted to relaunch her dead and suffering career. After having finished this book, one question remains: Was it all worth it? Was the fame worth all the unhappiness, all the struggle to keep up an image of a happy marriage? I guess it was not.

Staggeringly Biased

I finished the book out of habit but I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more biased book about anyone. The author clearly hates the subjects and makes no effort to hide it (while also managing somehow to also show the same level of vitriol for the Sussexes also). Basically they cheat on their taxes (yet they do this by using legal loopholes that somehow it’s their job to fix and not the government’s) and each other and stay together only for each other (while actively hating each other). There’s the book. I just saved you the need to read it.

This was so much fun, made me laugh out loud in places. Every time I thought they couldn’t get any worse they managed to. You have to give them some kudos if they are willing to make this much effort into fooling everyone