Villain (n) A professional disrupter, not necessarily
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I am frequently drawn to a book
by its cover and more often than not, the inside cover confirms I want to read
it. Villian Starter was one such book. Who wouldn’t want to read about super
intelligent cat spies who can talk and dolphins threatening to go on
strike?
Charlie Fitzer's life is going
nowhere fast. The former business reporter turned substitute teacher is
divorced and living in his deceased father’s house which his siblings want to
sell out from under him. All Charlie wants to do is buy the downtown pub and
live a quiet life with his cat. Everything changes when his billionaire uncle
Jake, last seen when Charlie was five years old, dies and leaves his supervillain
business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. Unfortunately, Charlie
also inherits uncle Jake's enemies who now want to kill him.
After his house is blown up, Charlie
moves to the volcano lair and is guided in his new life by Mathilda Morrison, his
uncle’s right-hand woman, now his. It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle
started against the other supervillains. But first he must attend the mysterious
Lombardy Convocation, a consortium of all supervillains. And there are also
labor negotiations with the Cetacean Association of the Americas, Chapter One.
The book is very well written and
hard to put down. The whole thing is absurd but it’s a vastly entertaining
read. I highly recommend it.
4.3 stars on Goodreads, 4.6 on
Amazon
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