Robin Anderson Author Reviews

Colosseum

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"A delightfully venal dark comedy that’s very clever ...!"

Click here to listen to the opening WHEN IN ROME...

Billionaire ‘Slayboy’ Treyton Templeton is back and Anderson is once again on top form with wickedly clever
writing that refuses to let his readers escape!

Anderson doesn’t have to try to be outlandish he was born to write that way. He excels at pitch-black comedy,
is a master of wicked one-liners and as with The Omnipotent the relentless self-interest of Anderson’s central
character, Treyton Templeton, spreads like a particularly vehement poison ivy into every aspect of his being.

Templeton’s funny because he’s shocking—shocking in ways that you don’t want to believe another human
being can be and it makes for a teetering on the edge of your seat read that’s as pointed and as rat-a-tat
funny as The Omnipotent, ET TUTU, BRUTE? and La Di Da Di Bloody Da!
With momentum quick to gather the plotting and backstabbing grows more elaborate as Templeton’s plans
to build his own blood drenched colosseum come together. There’s revenge to be enacted, his own particular
brand of lust to be sated and he does so with unbridled flamboyance as he crafts another poisonous cocktail
of naked ambition and blustery bravado with a decidedly bitter aftertaste.

The novelty of Anderson’s volcanically vulgar, double entendres has yet to wear off and it’s a credit to his versatility as a writer that he can continuously find fresh and luminous characters to place in Templeton’s way. Characters that showcase Anderson’s off-centre wit and edgy imagination whilst his comic timing and deliberate way of building up to outrageous behaviour is particularly enjoyable!

An enormously fun and delightfully venal dark comedy that’s very clever and engaging from beginning to end Colosseum is another superb 5-star release from Anderson and is unreservedly recommended.

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"A complete pleasure – rollicking along with Robin Anderson’s inimitable wit!"
GRADY HARP - AMAZON

London author Robin 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 stories with incidents that can only fall into the 'naughty range', and yet his manner of writing is so sophisticated and solid that about one fourth 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 another guffaw to top all previous ones. After stimulating our psyches and funny bones with THE OMNIPOTENT, Robin provides a sequel to his Treyton Templeton series, reminding us ‘The name is Treyton Templeton and I’m a multiple killer or – as the tabloids wish to blare – a serial killer.’ Or as we now discover, “I am not your typical host with the most who organizes his guests with things to do during their visit,” I announced to the group standing in the main hall under the empty stares as Ronnie served flutes of sparkling Dom Perignon.’ Settle back and prepare for laughs and finessed entertainment!

Robin condenses the plot - ‘Undeterred by the destruction of his sumptuous Villa Jovi Il Secondo, his bizarre souvenir collection of multi-coloured halluces and a famous movie star lover, eccentric billionaire slayboy Treyton Templeton refashions himself by building his own Colosseum Treyton Templeton in the grounds of Manorken his country estate, complete with a live-in emperor and empress plus scheduled bloodthirsty gladiatorial fights interspersed with concerts and homegrown operettas performed by the local ladies’ choir. To compensate for the destroyed halluces (medical term for a big toe) Treyton recruits his own version of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s terracotta army with an army of elaborately decorated skeletons deployed to guard a further expedient, an 18th century castle in Scotland: the renamed Castle Templeton lavishly redecorated throughout in garish Templeton tartan. Fully aware the man behind the bombing, South African Brian van der Westhuizen, could make a further attempt on his life, Treyton makes sure that a replay of Birnam Wood advancing on Dunsinane remains an impossibility. Not even the wily Bard could not have anticipated what happened next. To be or not to be, that is the million-euro question.’

Admittedly a devoted fan, this reader believes Robin is one of a kind, and thank goodness he keeps us so beautifully entertained. Very highly recommended.