Review: Really floated my boat.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2012
Summer 2012 I took off to Tenerife, with a bunch of indie author books on my Kindle, for a couple of weeks total relaxation. Four of those books really floated my boat, and this is one of them.The Virginia X was written some time ago and the author's bio describes himself as a mad scientist, inventing all kinds of stuff, so I was expecting something of a madcap adventure. That it was, but all in good time. From the first I was hooked by the dialogue. Dry, witty, real, gritty like the coffee in the diner where Ron and Angus hang out. There were so many humourous touches, I just wanted to be there and pretty soon I was, hatching madcap plans with the two lads and setting off on a crazy adventure that nearly cost their lives. It's very cinematic.The manuscript does need some tidying up, but then so do the characters' lives so it all fitted together pretty well in my view. Just thinking about it I'm back in the diner with the guys, drinking filter and trying to catch a whiff of the waitress's perfume.