Shurrn's Reviews > Love for the Cold-Blooded Or: The Part-Time Evil Minion's Guide to Accidentally Dating a Superhero

I LOVED THIS BOOK

“I’m adorable, dude. A total dazzler. We talked about this, remember?”

I loved every page of this story; every single ridiculous moment...
I want to wrap myself up in this story like a warm fuzzy blanket!

It was silly - without being overly absurd...
It was romantic - without being sappy...
Just normal guys in extraordinary circumstances...
Plus a lot of hot, sexy, sweaty moments :)

This book somehow managed to take a story about heroes and villains and turn it into a tale about regular people doing regular things... with um... ya know... interesting day jobs :)

This is a world where showdowns between beings with superpowers are as ubiquitous as the Starbucks on the corner. Super Heroes and their dreaded rivals have constant throw downs, and the general population has gotten pretty used to ducking and covering when someone with a cape shows up...

Patrick West

Pat snorted. “If only you knew how wrong you are. See, the entire world is populated by these really weird dudes, and I’m the only normal one. Nobody but me ever seems to get that.”

Full Time College Student,
Part Time Minion,
Accidental Rentboy...

Pat is the black-sheep of the family... He's the youngest child of the Dreaded Serpentissima - a snake woman known for her plots of world domination... But to Pat and his three older sisters, she's just Mom... She was out conquering the world but still made it home for family dinners. She plotted elaborate schemes but tucked her kids in at night... She even checked under their beds to make sure no super heroes (or Hoagies) were lurking under there.

See, it all depends on what side you're on. Admittedly, Pat's perspective is a little more skewed than your average college student. All three of his older sisters are following in their mother's villainous (or Challenger) footsteps, but Pat is studying to be an Urban Planner. Makes since really, when you consider that every other day a skirmish between Hoagies and Challengers breaks out and the resulting mayhem levels a building or two...

But hey, Pat's family has accepted (mostly) the fact that he has no interest in entering the family business, and even though he has to pull 'minion duty' every now and then, everyone pretty much supports his boring lifestyle.

He's just a normal college student - going to frat parties, striking out with hot guys, wearing flannel, using the word 'Dude' entirely too often... Oh, and he's working a night job to make ends meet... and that's exactly where the trouble starts...

Nick Andersen

Nick was bad with people and had weird habits and questionable opinions, but he was terribly good and heroic at his core, all selfless and noble and shit. It was pretty disgusting, actually...

Part Time Super Hero,
Genius Scientist,
Billionaire...

Nick is the kind of genius billionaire that pretty much stays in his giant mansion working on superhero things. His only social interactions occur when talking to his house's AI program, or making grand superhero speeches in front of city hall. As a result, the man has zero social skills.

Sure, Silver Paladin (Nick's superhero alter ego) is one of the best and brightest hoagies around, but without the costume, he's just a nerd.
Ok... An incredibly hot nerd...
Ok... An incredibly hot, kind of adorable, totally rich nerd...

Pat managed to get a job as the night manager of Anderson's estate - nothing nefarious, Pat needed the cash, the hours worked with his class schedule, and the AI pretty much runs the entire house, so there's lots of time for Pat to study.

Pat has been spending his shifts quietly studying in the night-kitchen with barely a peep from the rich, neurotic dude that owns the place - Pat makes the guy's 2AM perfectly symmetrical pizza and that's about it... Until one night...

One night the AI gets a new request to "send up a guy" - not knowing WTF Nick wants, Pat puts down his books and enters the secret lab of Silver Paladin... Poor Pat had no idea how he got so lucky - finally getting to see the awesome lab that only a billionaire genius scientist could create... and the fact that said scientist begins undressing and tells Pat to do the same...

Who in their right mind would turn down all those lickable abs?
Not Pat, that's for sure....

The result?

This wasn’t the kind of thing that happened in real life; bizarre and unlikely misunderstandings like this were the stuff of straight-to-DVD romantic comedies. Plus, Pat? Pat of all people? Who on earth would mistake Pat for a hooker?
Silver Paladin, apparently

Pat's mind might have been clouded by several layers of lust, but the guy isn't stupid. He figures out that when Nick asked the AI to "send up a guy" he really meant send up a hooker, and ta-da Patrick showed up.

Not a bad arrangement really - I mean, Pat would have sex with Nick for free!

Eventually our boys graduate to dating like normal human beings...
Well, as normal as these two can possibly be...
The result will make you laugh, make you smile, and give you the warm fuzzies.

Final Verdict:



***The author provided me with a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review***