Wanna Be In My Gang, My Gang, My Gang.. (The Club - Mandasue Heller)

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Product:	The Club - Mandasue Heller
Date:	18/06/07 (161 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: her best work to date

Disadvantages: still not up to Cole standard

The Club by Mandasue Heller




Jenna Lorde is forced to make the move back to Manchester after the sudden and unexpected death of her father. Arrangements need to be made and her unhelpful sister has managed to steer well clear leaving everything up to Jenna herself. The Club that her father literally lived, breathed and eventually died in comes to the forefront of her inheritance as her fathers will suggested he seemed to want her to take over the night tot night running of it and try to make it somewhat of a success.


The club itself, Zenith, is in a total state of decay and Jenna herself cannot see how she can bring it up to the standards of today’s clubbing scene. The manager Fabian and local superstar DJ Vibes, help her see that with a bit of work Zenith could be a big hit. So Jenna puts her heart and soul into turning Zenith, which resembles that of an old workingmen’s club, into one of the hottest places to be on the Manchester club circuit.


Celebrities flock to the new club giving it a huge name in a short space of time and Jenna begins to reap the rewards. Things of course begin to go wrong and with bully boys turning up and threatening her Jenna finds herself immersed into a world that perhaps she just doesn’t know enough about. The Manchester Club scene is heavy and it just got a whole lot heavier. Friends and acquaintances are pulling together to help the sort the mess out but just how well Jenna knows these people is leaving her feeling totally out of control.


With all this trouble going on and her falling for Vibes, the DJ, and him returning to his family in America Jenna feels totally alone and lost in a world she only thought she understood. She takes on help therefore from the worst of all places and things on the surface appear to have sorted themselves out, but little does Jenna know the worst is yet to come!!


For all fans of Martina Cole and the seedy underworld that she so easily seems to write about, you really cannot miss out on reading the latest Novel from up and coming author Mandasue Heller. The writing styles are the same but Mandasue Heller bases her books in Manchester whereas Martina Cole sets her in London.


This book is probably one of the best books that I have read of Mandasue Heller’s to date and I have worked my way through her whole collection now. This is probably the thickest book she has written although still not as much in depth as Martina Cole this book does see Mandasue Heller putting in an extra bit of work to make the story line itself a true success.


Mandasue Heller writes about a world that we are transported to as if we were sat in the club with Jenna and Fabian themselves. The plot is far better than those of her previous books in my opinion and the fact that the book itself is thicker it really shows that Mandasue Heller has gone into greater detail that I feel does make for a better read. There seems to be a lot more going on in this book compared to her others. Before it has seemed that the one storyline is the prominent and nothing else really happens but this book gives you more of what you are after when reading this sort of gangland/underworld style novel. The main storyline is there but with the added bonus of hearing more of the dodgy things that other people in the book are up to and giving you something else to really get your teeth into.


I think Mandasue Heller has outdone herself with this book. Her storyline is strong and very interesting and the characters in the book and well put across and easy to understand. The amount of violence in the book is perhaps less than that which Martina Cole would use but on the whole the book is pretty gripping and I for one did not want to put it down once I had started to read it.


Starting this book did remind me slightly of Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole but that soon changed as the story went on. It is easy to compare these two writers and I really do enjoy reading Mandasue Heller but I still much prefer Martina Cole’s style of writing and I think that Cole is still leagues above Heller. Heller’s books are easy to read and I find myself reading them within a couple of days, as they are so addictive. I would think this particular book is without doubt one of her best and for those that have not yet read anything by Mandasue Heller The Club is certainly a good one to start with. I am totally looking forward to reading Mandasue Heller’s new book that is released in September of this year so will have to keep an eye out for it.


On the whole this book is pretty good. I would certainly recommend it to everyone and say even for the top price of £6.99 pence it would be worth it but there are lots of copies going cheap on places such as eBay and I of course would try and snap one of these up if I were you.

Summary: agood book worth reading