Broadly readable for the most part, but with a real tail-off towards the end. Never fully convincing from the off, though - perhaps a problem with being involved in the stand up industry, the set-up, characters, and overarching narrative don’t really ring true. Yes, there are terrible men in stand up (and, to be honest, a brief moment where I wondered whether one of the characters was an avatar for a specific one I know), but this reads too closely to a fanfic of what it must be like from the outside. There’s an amount of fiction-as-wish-fulfillment in it, every character too broadly drawn and every plot contrivance too perfect. I’m no one to suggst that Raeside isn’t allowed that for herself, but it doesn’t make it interesting. A shame.