Review: Absolutely Adorable!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2012
If you imagine combining The Incredibles and Despicable Me, and then make it an adult romance, you get an idea about the plot of this book. It's the fun story of a villain who marries a superhero, has a quartet of little girls, keeps a "secret" lab (complete with amusing minions) in the basement, and runs into trouble when his wife decides to start saving the world again.The voice throughout the story is lighthearted and witty. Evan is an incredibly likeable character, despite his penchants for manipulating people and trying to take over the world. Tabitha was a bit harder for me to relate to, partly because she was relatively minor character for a love interest/romance. The girls, however, were darling and perfectly written as precocious five year olds.My only complaint with the story was that the conflict felt a bit contrived. Evan's suspicions about his wife's behavior makes sense at first, but he quickly realizes there's a second, more logical explanation for her behavior. Yet he continues to focus on his first suspicion until almost the end of the book. The actual reason for her leaving was immediately apparent to me thanks to the clues in the book, and I began to wonder whether Evan was really the genius he was supposed to be when, chapter after chapter, he chose to ignore those clues.Regardless, I had little problem suspending disbelief and letting the story skip along at a fast pace. It's a short book and a quick read, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys clean, adorable romance.