Barbara S. (barbsis) - , reviewed on 9/21/2011 + 1076 more book reviews

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After caring for her crazy ailing werewolf grandmother, Eve Bluebeard decided her life's ambition was to run an asylum for the supernaturally insane. After med school she opened The Towers with an ogre butler, an ogre gardener and a varied group of patients, including a vampires bride afraid of blood, a lunatic leprechaun forever burying a non-existent pot of gold, Frederick Frankenstein who has an inferiority complex, Jane Van Helsing a famous vampire hunter married to a vampire, a gargoyle afraid of heights and Hugo a hunchbacked dwarf with a bell fetish. And if these characters didn't provide enough levity, Eve has created a husband to satisfy society (after all a single woman cannot run an asylum all by herself, heaven forbid!) When said pretend husband appears on the doorstep and commences to interfere in patient treatments and her private life, Eve is beside herself. Her father, Captain Bluebeard himself, has sent an actor to impersonate her husband in an effort to get her away from the crazy people and back on the high seas having babies.

I was enjoying this pun-laden book until Adam Griffin appeared. I didn't find him amusing at all. As a matter of fact, I found him condescending and nervy as hell not to mention the fact that he has absolutely no respect for Eve or her profession. And don't even get me started on his interfering in patient treatments...after all he wasn't a real doctor. I certainly understood that he felt that Eve was his soul mate but IMHO he went about snagging Eve completely wrong. I totally lost interest in Eve and her plight and had to force myself to complete the book.

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