A review by faysieh
The Flip Side by James Bailey

4.0

A happy-go-lucky, apart from one sad interlude, funny look at letting a coin make the decisions, both big and small, when you just don't trust your own judgement anymore.
Very easy to read, a wonderful opening on the London Eye and lots of great characters supporting Josh in his endeavours to get on with life by way of flipping his 50 pence coin.
The All-Jays are a local pub quiz team, but they are also Josh's friends, Jessie and Jake and Jake's boyfriend Jake. They mostly never win but they do come together frequently to support one another in life, love, careers and all those big moments we all experience in life where we just need another perspective
Will Josh recover from an emotional slump? Will he discover what he wants to do in the future? Will he and the fellow All-Jays ever beat the Quizlamist Extremists? And will Josh find the Sunflower Girl in Germany, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Tokyo or France? Or maybe not at all?
I loved the date scene in the pizza parlour with the birthday offer which was very funny and mostly found Josh's adventures an enjoyable and light-hearted escape from less humorous and more tedious real life days.
Follow Josh and enjoy his mishaps by choosing to read this book rather than flipping a coin. It will bring some sunshine into these dark and dreary November days.