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A Villain for Christmas
- Vexing Villains, Book 1
- Narrated by: Michael Lesley
- Length: 9 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
Despite growing up in a family of villains, I’d rather curl up and read than commit crimes. When I get coerced by my brother into helping him rob a bank, I run into August, my childhood crush, also known as Chrono, the city’s greatest superhero. He’s sexy, sweet, and suddenly, he’s asking me to Thanksgiving with his parents.
It’s probably because he doesn’t realize that I’m Leviathan, a villain with the power of telekinesis. And I can’t tell him because he’d never forgive me and would stop doing things like cooking for me - wait, maybe that would be a good thing, since he’s a terrible cook. It doesn’t help that my parents think they’re the ultimate villains and won’t stop getting in my way, although they can’t even steal toilet paper without getting caught.
But when real supervillains (not the wannabe kind that I grew up with) start targeting August, I might be forced to show everyone who I truly am: a slightly warped and snarky man who’d really rather read a book than save anything...besides August.
I’ll tear this world apart just to get another glimpse of him in those glasses and spandex suit. I’ll do whatever it takes to keep him safe, even though it means exposing my true identity. Luckily, August still cares about me, proving that even a villain and a hero can fall in love. Hopefully, we’ll be able to save the world in time for Christmas.
This ridiculous and snarky holiday novel contains a villain-turned-unlikely hero (even if he’s a manager's worst nightmare), a superhero with a fondness for suckers who absolutely does not use his powers to cheat on board games, a hairless cat with an unfortunate name, bumbling family members that try to be evil, but are mostly just embarrassing, a snow globe with mysterious powers, betrayal, true love, a risqué Santa suit, and the saltiest chicken ever.
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- Gimmebooks
- 28-03-2023
Funny
It's funny and cute and narration is great but I got a bit bored towards the end - it's just too predictable.
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- Traece
- 23-05-2020
Fast paced and funny as hell
This was my first Alice Winters read, and it inspired me to buy everything else I could lay my hands on!
Landon remains my favorite, out of all of Alice’s wonderful men.
This story is fun to read, fast paced and very entertaining. I found the characters really likable (surrounding family and friends too) and the banter was outstanding.
Currently a stand alone, but I really hope there will be more of this wonderful cast in the future!
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- Wide Eyes, Big Ears!
- 14-08-2022
The perfect pick-me-up, pure fun and snark!!!
Despite growing up in a supervillain family, Leviathan is a reluctant evildoer. He’s cajoled or dragged into nefarious activity because of his extremely powerful telekinesis, but he’d much rather read books or moon over the city’s mightiest and dreamiest superhero, Chrono. When Leviathan finally attracts Chrono’s attention, things look promising until Chrono learns his true identity. But when Leviathan jumps at the chance to live a normal life, he endangers not only Chrono, but the whole city. In true Alice Winters style, this is a laugh a minute. Leviathan is such a cynical, wise-cracking iconoclast, he takes nothing and no one seriously, including naming his hairless cat ‘Balzac’. There’s the usual zany pace of antics, an interesting plot, and many, many jokes. Michael Lesley is so wonderfully fast and funny with his audio narration, I’m sort of in awe, and I’m wondering why this is the only Alice Winters novel he’s narrated - their styles are so well suited. Great stuff!
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- Dana
- 02-02-2024
Narrator wasnt for me
It was a struggle listening to this book, I am used to Michael or Greg narrating Alice Winters books and the change in narrator did not work for me. I thought maybe the story was to blame so gave up on the audio to read it with no problems, I liked it. Maybe not as good as some of her other books but still a lot of fun with two super sweet main characters who I will be happy to read more about, For my ears the narrator sounded bored? Maybe a relisten in the future may change my mind...
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