Roo I MacLeod

The Gang Land Wars is a very serious game. There are deaths, close shaves, and life-threatening scenarios. However, there is always space for humorous interactions between the characters. There are also heartwarming bonds formed during dire times among Oona and her friends: Tara, Minnie, and Dapple.

A huge thank you to the author for letting me help refine the book, through AuthorsXP. The story is immersive and it's heart-wrenching to see Oona's struggles through the game - which she tried really hard to avoid from the start - and the losses she experiences. Readers follow Oona's character development as she applies her morals into everything she does while trying to survive.… (plus d'informations)

The Gang Land Wars is a very serious game. There are deaths, close shaves, and life-threatening scenarios. However, there is always space for humorous interactions between the characters. There are also heartwarming bonds formed during dire times among Oona and her friends: Tara, Minnie, and Dapple.

A huge thank you to the author for letting me help refine the book, through AuthorsXP. The story is immersive and it's heart-wrenching to see Oona's struggles through the game - which she tried really hard to avoid from the start - and the losses she experiences. Readers follow Oona's character development as she applies her morals into everything she does while trying to survive.… (plus d'informations)

Izzy Izzard, a seventeen and a half-year-old (just ask her) refugee from Arundel Asylum, is eliminating potential murderers suspected of killing her brother Dougal. In Heaps of Trouble, her search continues, complicated now by swelling forces against her…the clan, the army, the Slotvaks, no help from Robert and Janis (who are missing in action)…and a new case concerning a missing talented young musician brought to her by his mother, a woman of questionable motives with money. To find the child, she must confront Robert’s mother, and seek his father, aided by Sally, Robert’s teenaged assistant, Roller-Girl, and two reporters of dubious motivation.

Heaps of Trouble keeps the Izzy Izzard story flowing with suspense and violent confrontations. One is never sure who to trust, or exactly what alliances are aligned against Izzy, but readers have confidence that Izzy is a match for the forces she faces. No new characters of significance are introduced in this book. Instead, the action rocks along much the same as Loads of Trouble; entertaining but not overwhelming. It is a worthy followup to Loads of Trouble, a worthwhile bridge to future Izzy Izzard books, and sure to be enjoyed by fans of strong, but sometimes clueless female main characters in suspenseful settings.

3-Stars because the book needs strong proofreading and editing.… (plus d'informations)

Izzy Izzard, a seventeen and a half-year-old (just ask her) refugee from Arundel Asylum, looks for her brother, Dougal, the private detective that was supposed to take care of her upon her escape from the institution where she had been committed for little more than the ability to read people’s minds since the age of fifteen. Her other brother, Elliot, is dead but still lives in her imagination. Her parents are also dead but not particularly missed…and now, Dougal is also dead. But why? And by who’s hand?

Thus begins Izzy’s inquiry into Dougal’s death. Aided by an oddball cast of characters, all of which have personal agendas, alcohol, and her blue and yellow pills; hounded by an equally odd assortment of adversaries with a variety of underhanded interests, one of which probably killed Dougal (but which one?) she seeks the killer against a backdrop of military martial law and the dystopian social conditions permeating Albion Minor.

Loads of Trouble is a well-written, engaging tale of competing interests in a small dystopian community where everyone knows everyone else and strangers are not particularly welcome. The characters are interesting, well-developed, and all are nutty in different ways. I found the story interesting, and the disparate interests of the antagonists, any of which could have been Dougal’s killer, kept the story moving from possibility to possibility…colorful characters acting on a gray monotone stage of social collapse and corrupt military control.

Izzy’s Loads of Trouble should be a welcome, entertaining read for anyone who likes kinky mysteries, or suspenseful action.… (plus d'informations)