Excellent action scenes and awesome setting. You can tell Sharp spent a good deal of time in Florida to get the atmosphere down. It also began with the main action and not a false-start like the others have been. That was great - kept me reading from the very start.
My complaints: the teenagers were horribly written. I taught high school for some time and the characters painted in this story were so awfully one-dimensional that I wanted to throw the book down. There was so much potential for Trey and it was completely squandered.
Also Sharp's ear for American dialogue is, well, embarrassing. I don't think she had an American editor, because if she did, phrases like a teenager saying "mega row" to describe an argument would not have slipped through. And, I'm sorry Ms. Sharp, but while teens do say "like" a lot, they don't say it in the ways that you wrote them. The dialogue alone cost this a full star.
Finally, describing a black person as "colored" or simply as "the black guy" when everyone else gets a name is racist. Sorry no one filled you in on this.

I enjoyed this book, but I find it the weakest out of the first four of the Charlie Fox series. A lot of things didn't really make logical sense, and there are quite a few loose ends that weren't tied up. It's quite action-packed, but I don't think this should be the introduction to the Charlie Fox series.

First Drop is a lot of preposterous nonsense really, but it’s great fun.

Charlie is embarking on her close protection career by minding Trey, a rich, obnoxious teenage boy in Florida. Things become very involved indeed as there is an attempt on the boy’s life, his father’s work seems to be involved somehow and Charlie and Trey end up on the run from almost everyone, including the law.

Frankly, it’s packed with unlikely occurrences, implausible twists and so on, but Zoe Sharp writes well, Charlie is an engaging narrator and if you’re prepared to suspend disbelief from a great height as I was, it’s a lot of rather silly fun. A fan of the series has told me that this isn’t a favourite and that they get better so I’ll certainly read on, but meanwhile I can recommend this as a good, rather brain-off read.

I believe that Charlie Fox is one of my all time favorite characters! In this fourth book, Charlie comes to America, Daytona at Spring Break, for her first official bodyguard job. The emotions that ensue take you on a rollercoaster ride of your own. I love the secondary characters, also, and hope we get to see some of them again in Charlie's future adventures.

I never want these books to end! Love them!

I have a thing for books set in FL, especially those with characters who aren't from FL because it's usually an interesting perspective. There's a description of one of our giant roach-looking bugs that stood out. By "thing," I mean I tend to either love them (FL-set books) or hate them...and it usually had a lot to do with how much I like that part of FL.
Personally, I like the main character. I like that she can't quite figure out her relationship (with herself or with Sean). I like that she almost balances her girly side and killer side and that both horrify her in their own ways.
Did the Britishisms bother me? Only when American characters said them, and then not too much. I'd call it amusement more than bother.
Did the teenagers seem realistic? In most ways...yeah. But then I've spent a lot of time with a lot of teens. Someone mentioned that the teens should have understood sarcasm better, but I've found that teens from different cultures, even when they come in the same city, understand sarcasm differently. Not all kids are like one's kids' friends.
Besides, it's not a deep-insight-into-teens-heads kinda book.
It's fun.

Edge of your seat thriller. Loved every minute of it.

If you like Jack Reacher Charlie Fox will be your cup of tea.

I'm so glad I found author Zoe Sharp. Now I'll go to the start of the series and look forward to lots if well-written, violent guilty pleasure.

God, teenagers are irritating.

I am stone in love with Charlie Fox, Zoe's kick-ass protagonist. She's like an Emma Peel for the 21st Century--tough as nails, totally professional in her work as a bodyguard, but she has a heart that can be broken. The plot blasts out of the gate from chapter one, as someone tries to kill Zoe's obnoxious teenage "principal" at a Florida amusement park. From there, the action never lets up as Zoe and the kid run for their lives, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake across the Florida landscape, which is strange enough for Americans, let alone a Brit like Charlie.

Another enjoyable Charlie Fox episode. I am starting to find her soul-searching over killing people is starting to become tedious, however, I'm happy that she doesn't actually enjoy it, just does what's necessary.

love her books

This is suppose to be the first book in the Charlie Fox series and it is excellent - can't wait to read the next one.