Robin Anderson Author Reviews

Oysters Aweigh!

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"Jumping into crime and other wild derring-do on the high seas"
Grady Harp - Amazon

Robin Anderson continues to write the campiest tales that take on hilarious proportions that further into
the novel the reader progresses. His writing is risqué, full of parodies and putdowns, brimming over with
naughty situations that never approach pornography. He is an apt storyteller, but in so many ways the
story is not as important as the zany characters he creates to unfold his bizarre ventures. At times his
writing seems like a Dr. Seuss tale written for adults with human characters instead of Seuss characters:
if Horton Hears a Who then Robinson hears a Hoot!

The PR outlines this story( as well as anyone can) as follows: `When charming Miz Miranda Maracona and Miz Kookie Kombuis - one so fair, the other so, so dark! - are two enormously talented and hugely endowed transvestites, (or better yet, self-proclaimed 'transvestites of taste'), set out on a quest to find sunken treasure, even they can't imagine what adventure will ensue. From fancy yachts to encounters with Somali pirates, Kookie and Miranda sashay their way on their Jimmy Choos with panache, haute couture, and cocktails ever present. From London to the high seas, Abu Dhabi, Zanzibar, and Buenos Aires--no matter if it's climbing a pyramid of muscular men or double crossing a hunky sea captain--this outrageous pair, along with their cadre of friends, including a threesome of retired porn stars, can always be counted on to provide a gasp, a laugh, and never-ending intrigue and mayhem en route.'

These novels are for diversion - and that is a compliment! Few writes can match Robinson's audacity of style and end up with a tale that is side-splittingly funny - and of course a bit trashy! De rigueur for today's tired, in-need-of-stimulation crowd.

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"Once Again with Style"
Amos Lassen

I don't know how Robin Anderson does it – he turns out book after book, never repeats himself and always gives us a good read. The drag queens that we have come to love, Miz M and Miz K are back for yet another adventure that fills us with adventure and keeps us laughing. We have been with them now in five books ("LA DI DA DI BLOODY DA!" was followed by SILVER PUBLISHING taking on "TRANNYS TO TIARAS!" – then "MAHARAJAS, MYSTICS & MASALA" – then "WOW! POW! & PERSUASIONS" and now "OYSTERS AWEIGH!" which is out electronically on MARCH 23rd–this weekend and there is still another "TRIPLE OH HEAVEN" on its way). By the way, all of these are reviewed here and I am getting ready to give Robin Anderson his own page on my site.

In "Oysters", the "girls" are kidnapped by Somali pirates, climb a pyramid and hunt for sunken treasure. They seem to have noses for trouble and what is their trouble is our laughter. Their travels are as legendary as their reputations and this time they go to Abu Dhabi, Zanzibar and Buenos Aires and you can be certain that where they go trouble follows. It is amazing what a strand of pearls can cause but remembering former first lady Barbara Bush's penchant for pearls, it is understandable what keeps the "Mizzes" going.

Anderson always populates his novels with casts of eccentric characters and this book is no exception. We meet "eccentric billionaire Mo Midas Frump, Nebuchadnezzar and his duplicitous sidekick Codpies". The intrigue never stops and neither do the laughs or the mayhem. As the girls say, "If you wish pearls with your oysters dahlings you'd best string along!"

Anderson wrote his first book, "Regina" in 1998 and then took a break until 2007 and since then he was published eighteen novels, three volumes of short stories and three children's books.

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★ ★ ★ ★

Sally Burton, April 2013

Once more Robin Anderson delivers a diverting tale, which has the divoon Miz M and the equally divoon Miz K pitted against a devilish bunch of desperados. Deviousness, deception and duplicity are everywhere as the intrepid duo face pirates, kidnapping and more plot twists than are contained within the complexities of Miz K's regal turban. As always, scores of Louis Vuitton trunks and hatboxes along with a copious supply of champagne and crème de menthe accompany the two trannies of taste and style on this romp through the Indian Ocean. Such is their consumption of cocktails one wonders how they remain upright on their Manolos. But one thing is clear; Miz M and Miz K are always one step ahead of their adversaries in crime, gain, lust and survival. In this novel we are treated to some timely intervention and assistance from Reggie who we first met in Robin Anderson's novel 'Regina'. Indeed the distinguished Mr Anderson even takes time out from his writing duties to make a brief appearance himself. It is all too divoon. Well, it takes one to know one.

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