Robin Anderson Author Reviews

Aliens & Arabesques – Blast Off!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"The further adventures of Miz M & Miz K."
GRADY HARP

Robin Anderson takes a million and one chances in this stingingly funny novel and his writing style is so
adept that he knows exactly how to balance camp with storyline. A little background: Anderson was born
in Scotland and educated in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and South Africa and while his novels have a
decidedly bent twist, his day job is that of an internationally respected interior designer. And in that field
he likely has encountered much of the classy fodder he molds into this book.

The story peels the exterior off two wildly entertaining transvestites - Miz Miranda Maracona (the mouthy
and grossly endowed white one) and Miz Kookie Kombuis (the outrageous black one) - who own an agency for `men with special needs' in London at Soho's Old Crompton Street, the MK agency. Their shenanigans are familiar to this series by the inimitable Robin Anderson (Book 8 of the LA DI DA DI BLOOD DA! series), and few can write synopses as well as Robin about his adventures with Miz M and Miz.

‘A Park Lane Kremlin: a Taj Volare in the middle of the swampy Fens plus a nefarious Central African Dictator with greedy eyes not only on the bigger picture but the whole planet – these are only part of the challenges facing the infallible Miz M and Miz K (“We are transvestites of taste; never tackiness!”) as the two uber-glamorous super sleuths set about “putting a tranny in the works”. Introducing the petulant, Gainsborough-inspired Lord Ashley Milkslopp; surly burly Russian oligarch Vladimir - “Baddy Vladdy” - Balsawich; interior designer Damian - “Dinky” - Diamond; dubious American astronaut Luke Warm; smooth talking Italian aristo Count Bruno Fornicatori; the Gongfu blade wielding Beijing Brigade; penguin strutting Kim Jong-Un; the sultry femme fatale of all femme fatales, Svetlana Orlov - and the story has barely begun. However, if you allow MIZ M and MIZ K, our two intrepid heroines, along with MIZ M’s beau, the dashing Henry Irving Victor (HIV to his nearest and dearest) and his colleague, Tom Cruise lookalike Midge Miller to reveal more, you will be guaranteed a plethora of endless over-the-top surprises.’

The names alone are a howl, but the deft manner in which Robin speeds us thought this rollercoaster ride start with a giggle and proceed to many guffaws. Robin Anderson has the gift – and obviously loves sharing it to an admiring public. Wonderfully outrageous.

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"They’re Back!!!!!."
AMOS LASSEN

Robin Anderson’s two wildly entertaining transvestites – Miz Miranda Maracona (the mouthy and grossly endowed white one) and Miz Kookie Kombuis (the outrageous black one) who own an agency for “men with special needs” in London at Soho’s Old Crompton Street are back. This is the eighth volume in their series that is known as “LA DI DA DI BLOODY DA!”

The “girls” are proud of their multiple physical gifts and they compete with each other for attention from gentlemen callers. Their stories have something for everyone: assassins, lovers, intrigue, sophistication, divided loyalties, humor and they are great fun.
Our heroes are “transvestites of taste”. . Miz Miranda and Miz Kookie find themselves in all kinds of strange situations that include intrigue and plenty sex. Everything seems to happen very quickly and it is amazing that the author could keep the humor up with the action. But there is a lot of everything here and at times I had to slow my reading to keep up with the story. We are plunged into a world that most of us have no idea that it exists. Anderson gives us over-the-top characters who become involved in over-the-top situations that happen at over-the-top speed. Everything here is hyper and I loved that.

It is the girls intention to put a tranny in the works every chance they get. We meet the bad-tempered Lord Ashley Milkslopp, Vladimir Balsawich (Baddy Vladdy), an oligarch from old Russia, Daman “Dinky” Diamond, an interior designer, Luke Warm, an American astronaut, Count Bruno Fornicatori, an aristocratic Italian count, Beijing Brigade, a Gongfu knife wielder, strutting Kim Jong-Un and Svetlana (we always need a Svetlana) Orlov, a very sexy femme fatale. When Miz M and Miz K get together with their boyfriends, Henry Irving Victor (HIV) and Midge Miller a Tom Cruise look alike, anything can happen and does. I am not going to share the adventures because I want you to read and the book and love it as much as I do.

As you can see by the names of the characters, Anderson writes with tongue and cheek, satirizing everything that he can. There are no sacred cows in a Robin Anderson book. If you have never read him here is a place to start and if you have, you know what I am talking about.

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