Review: Good Luck Reader
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
It's an honour to be the first UK reader to review this book. I came to it from Bad Luck Cadet, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and this is just as good. In the first book Suzie, a middle-aged mother with two grown-up children, succeeds against all the odds to pass an extremely tough, militaristic and demanding course at the Police Academy; here she starts out on her probation year as a police officer - the first female police officer in Small Town Arizona. She has to put everything she learned into practice under the watchful eyes of her critical, demanding, and sometimes very chauvinistic male colleagues. The incidents she deals with are by turns amusing, shocking, and very moving. It's written as a true story, with details of names and places changed to protect privacy. Nothing in this book is boring; she writes simply and clearly, and has a gift for describing her characters and bringing them to life. I think this book is a considerable achievement. I hope there will be a third one - Bad Luck Detective - and look forward to reading that too.