UNCLE JANICE

This tragi-comedy features 24-year-old New York City undercover narcotics cop Janice Itwaru. She's set her sights on making enough arrests in 18 months to get promoted. Narrator Rachel Fulginiti is clearly talented, but she has too much pep in her voice when the going gets grim or gritty. Despite the promotional promise that the book is "uproariously funny," it's not light laughs. In fact, the story is difficult to categorize, sometimes dark and sometimes funny. A listener can sympathize with the challenge Fulginiti faced when deciding how to approach the narration, but the result is still, at times, a bit off-key. G.S.D. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2015]