Review: Freaky Friday goes Bezerk!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2013
J Fields Jr  has come onto the writing scene with a BANG. There is no Genre that he is attached to, except for the little voices in his head telling him keep typing.  I met him last year when I read his first submission of the Antonio Cruz Saga titled Casino Shuffle,  a mystery thriller meets sexy hotel Butler. In between that and the other two additions to that series Rogue et Noir and Bad Beat we have been horrified with the short Woodsman and the Wolf.  I have read an ingeniously funny story called Respect the Dojo, where my sides hurt for hours  from laughing so hard.Love Potion 2.0 is light and fun about a punk rock tekky, whose discusses her life with her best friend, whose persona is only on her computer screen as a red puppet; Elmo.  Ema is described as having Dennis the Menace blonde hair punked out with Hot Rod Red and left over blue tips,  black lipstick, red eye shadow. True to her look she also believes she is a witch, spurred on from her Great Gram, but alas, her chants do not work, anytime!We meet her waking to find the boy toy she fell asleep with the night before, is gone and so is her big screen TV, cell phone, money, ipod and Wii and worst her weed.  Waking her groaning  friend Elmo about it, she can not worry this morning; Ema has been hired by Metro Analytical Network to do an upgrade on their computer system and today is her first day. Hopping on her Vespa, she arrives at the building and meets the owner Brad who is showing her around, and at the break room meets `nice smile, dimple,  blond curly hair `....and you hear the angel choir sing.....Wayne Randolph Douglas lll .Ema with one M, is entranced. She internalizes with Elmo that Wayne is not like all the guys she meets and dates. He is the good guy in a story, not the dudes she would meet within her lifestyle. Ema feels Wayne would date the straight clean cut Susan in the office with the big boobs and pearls.Lighting a candle and wishing for a love would be her only way, but that `never' works. But something might.....Being a tekky, being a logarithm girl, can x +y= love ? Hold onto your hats folks and meet Freaky Friday goes Beserk!  This is where Mr. Fields is at his best, running with a thought and making it happen.The story although done many times, is a barrel of zany fun, great scenes, side splitting laughs and treating Ema to the ride of her life.I loved Ema, she was so upbeat, quirky and reminded me of other  tekky characters this author writes about in The Cruz Saga, Chloe and Chewie. I guess he thinks all computer nerds have to be a little quirky and or a lot insane. As I said Mr. Fields has quite a gift, his timing is so precise when it comes to humor and the reality in his writing is great as well. As I said the premise of this has been used before, but this author takes it into a direction no one else has.  I cannot say enough about this new find, except look for him when you are buying books and try one. I do not think you will be disappointed.