Review: roller derby and corporate clash
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2013
I loved Grease Monkey Jive, so to read another story with those characters was just a joy. Ant, who wasn't anywhere close to my favourite character in Grease Monkey Jive, stars in Desk Jockey Jam... and (of great surprise to me) I grew to like him. Probabaly because he has his butt kicked by a girl, or 2 girls really!!This story creeps up on you.  It sounds like a simple romance but it's actually more complicated, which is something Ainslie Paton does so deceptively.  It's about gender politics in work and sport and how two very different people negotiate their way through those expectations.This story is nowhere near the size of Grease Monkey Jive but it still packs a punch. And you want to know how Dan and Alex are going, don't you? Plus Roller Derby Queen, Kitty Caruso, is someone you have to meet.Now I'm waiting (impatiently) for the next world created by Ainslie Paton.