Review: Enjoyable experience from the sidelines
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2012
Suzie, a mother of 3 grown or practically grown children, decides to enter the police force.  She has 6 months to train for her start date for the Academy, needing to lose a bunch of weight and get her body in the shape to be able to do more pushups, situps, and runs that I care to think about.  It takes you through her first person narrative of what it was like for her going through 18 weeks with a bunch of other cadets that are more equipped to complete the Academy.  Will she make it or will her determination run out?Suzie has a style of writing that made me want to keep reading it, as entertaining in it's humorous aspects as it was emotional in it's tearful ones.  You watch her struggle to keep up with what is expected of her and see her heart shine through, pushing her forward even when she is concerned she won't make it through.  Each week, you cheer her on towards more triumphs and letdowns, laughing at her depiction of Sgt. Dickless, I mean Dickens.  In the humorous parts, she is still able to portray the seriousness of what was being taught, the dangers that lie in the job, and the heartache that lie in the failures.  While people quit or get sent home week by week, she pursues her goal, tackling one obstacle at a time, including getting the Demi Moore haircut to avoid having to do more laps.  I applaud her and every cadet's bravery in taking steps to become a police officer.  Well worth the $0.99 it's currently priced at.