Oy, how do I write this.

I have been hanging out for Ollie's side of the story, but unfortunately for me, this was a bit of a miss.

As an Aussie, I praised Max Monroe for not falling into the trap of making Ollie sound like Paul Hogan, throwing another shrimp on the barbie.

Unfortunately in this second part of this duet, they have fallen into the trap. It is like Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin were used as reference material on how Australians speak.

I won't lie, I nearly did DNF this book as it grated on this Aussie ear so much. What this book really needed was an Aussie beta reader or proof reader who could tell them that "hey, Australian's don't talk like that" and "whoops, you got this saying completely wrong". Oh, and the blokes and sheilas stuff - just nope. They most probably won't bother non-Australians but they irritated this one so much.

I did persevere though, and found that the second half of the book was a lot better, a lot less "ockerish" than the first half.

I would have liked more of the present day than the first half of the book being Ollie's retelling of the first book, but this could just be me.

I did enjoy where things went when we got to the present, and I did like Ollie's voice through the podcasts.

So whilst I didn't love it, I did eventually like it.