Review: Feisty-but-flawed heroine who takes risks to get results
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
You can't fail to like Georgina Connelly, E L Lindley's beautiful, talented, but hard drinking and easy-to-anger heroine, who is a documentary filmmaker: an Englishwoman based in Los Angeles.The story starts with Georgie, having been unjustly convicted of driving when drunk and disorderly, beginning her punishment, of having to teach media studies to a group of maladjusted teenagers.A student's first question is "Who the f... are you?"  the second student's question is "Do you make porno films?"The story starts with humour but you are quickly drawn into Georgie's engaging world: her friend Callie and Callie's husband Eric, and the macho James Finn.  The mystery begins when a young girl in the class Georgie is teaching goes missing.  With a back-story of a dangerous enemy that she's made who is stalking her, the mystery grows, and suspects appear from various different directions.It'll spoil the story to go on, but it's fair to say that Georgie Connolly is fun to have adventures with.  Her good nature eclipses her feistiness, and ultimately, when she's completely on her own tackling the bad guys, she can really pack a punch.There's a lovely adventure to get wrapped up in, plus plenty of rough and tumble, especially towards the end.  The tension builds and builds and the climax of the story certainly doesn't disappoint.This was such an absorbing, engaging story that I'm going to buy the next Georgie Connolly adventure because I want to know what's happening in her life, mainly who she's going to help and who she's going to tangle with.But mostly I want to read the next book because I enjoy being in her company.I'm sure you will too.