Robin Anderson Author Reviews

The Burning Bush

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"A novella from the master of laughs: short and sweet."
Grady Harp - Amazon - January 2015

Anyone who has read previous books by the inimitable Robin Anderson is in for a treat with RED SNAPPER.
Anderson has polished his recipe for entertainment to a fare-thee-well. He creates impossibly ludicrous
characters who happen to bounce off each other in the most unexpected way, fills his story with incidents
that can only fall into the 'naughty range', and yet his manner of writing is so sophisticated and a solid that
about one third of the way through his books the reader realizes the farce is meant as good-humored fun
and should not be taken too seriously or dissected or analyzed because the author is always just around
the corner (or on the next page) with a guffaw to top all previous ones.

As is always the case with Robin's books, his own hilarious plot summaries match the paltry descriptions other attempts for synopses: "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" "Turn away, Miss Shelagh La Verne For reflected grief will see you yearn Yearn for those glorious days of yore When lovers cried `Shelagh! More, more, more!' Those flames are dead; no longer kindled Your lonely ashes with tears are mingled."

Not that that gives away a plot, but the plot of this `cautionary tale' has the tendency to be in bits of wonderful vignettes, no overall story line. But when Robin can open a story like the following you know you are in for naughty fun: `She sat studying her shadowy reflection in the gauze-draped dressing table mirror. Reverently placing a vibrant red talon - a dead ringer to her tumble of Medusa-like red locks - against her sunken right cheek, the woman gave a long, drawn-out, theatrical sigh......'How on earth dear God, could you have ever allowed this happen to me: Shelagh La Verne, a living legend in her lifetime, a breathtaking beauty and actress supreme?' A tale of aging divas and how they cope. This tale has a bit of a twist that will surprise Robin's fans - a good surprise of very fine writing.

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"Getting Older and Having Fun."
Amos Lassen

Here is another new satire from author Robin Anderson and this time he deals with getting older yet he does so in a very humorous way.
I love the title, “The Burning Bush” simply because it is so irreverent. Here we have an aging (well she is really old) who we call BB and her friend Clarissa who let us know that old folks need sex too. Both women enjoy seducing young men who they later destroy. But now,
since theyare older, they realize that what they once had has faded like old roses and they must find new ingenious ways to trap the guys. They are determined to have nothing stop them from having their fun (and their men).

This little poem by author Anderson has a lot to say about the plot of this book in a few short lines:

“Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”

“Turn away Miss Shelagh La Verna For reflected grief will see you yearn

Yearn for those glorious days of yore

When lovers cried, Shelagh! More, more, more!

Those flames are dead; no longer kindled

Your lonely ashes with tears are mingled.”

Anderson always seems to go where other writers don’t and I think that is one of the attractions of his writings. He creates new characters in every book and these characters not only tell their stories but also keep us reading and laughing all the way.

If you have never read Robin Anderson then you should – his writing is crisp and fresh and always fun.

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