Cinderman

Anne Stuart's Greatest Hits, Book 1

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes

Reporter Suzanna Molloy is looking for the story that will change her world, and she’s pretty sure that story is Dr. Daniel Crompton, a gorgeous, grumpy genius, obsessively working in his lab on something secret. Suzanna loves secrets, and she’s not averse to gorgeous geniuses, either, so a trip to Compton Labs is a moral imperative.

Daniel Compton is working on a project he knows will change the world. Instead, a lab explosion changes him, giving him fantastic powers. But with great powers come great enemies, and now he’s on the run with Susanna, stuck with a power that’s hard to control and a woman who’s hard to resist.

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Great comic book story; unfortunate romance

“Don’t call me girl!”
Lab created superpowers. Greedy villains. One liners. As a comic book story, I had a fun time listening.

Daniel: “Intelligence: he hated that in a woman.”
I didn’t enjoy the romance side, however, due to the unlikeability of the MCs. The story runs with the stereotype of scientists as cold, logical, socially inept people. Ditto for the feisty, but ultimately dim, lady reporter who invariably ends up being nothing more than a damsel and hostage/love interest plot device.

Daniel: “She was just the kind of woman he usually found attractive: blond and pretty and stupid.”
Seriously, Daniel was such an unfeeling, robotic misogynist that I couldn’t swallow him coming to care for Suzanna and I lost all respect for Suzanna’s instant lust-to-love arc.