Reviewed by Anabela

TITLE: How to Make the Perfect Man

SERIES: Some Like it Haunted Collection

AUTHOR: Catherine Curzon & Eleanor Harkstead

PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing

LENGTH: 62 pages

RELEASE DATE: October 27, 2020

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Love isn’t science. It’s alchemy.

Needing a date for the hottest Hallowe’en party in town, scientist Aubrey Waldegrave sets to work creating his perfect man. Unfortunately, the Adonis who emerges from his laboratory is a free spirit who has no time for Aubrey’s brogues and tweeds.

Alchemist Trismegistus Nimlet can turn anything into gold, but when his apocathery’s alligator starts talking back and his werewolf allergy leaves him sneezing, it looks like Halloween might be a washout. Worse still, is Tris really about to lose the chap he secretly loves to a manmade surfer dude who’s more flash than Frankenstein?

With werewolves leaving fur in the ornamental fountains and a banshee making enough noise to wake the dead, Aubrey’s Halloween is going from bad to worse. All he wanted was to make his perfect man, but what if he was right there all along?

REVIEW:

Although short, How to Make the Perfect Man is a delightful combination of sweet romance, fantasy and humor wrapped with magic and excellent storytelling.

The authors offer their take on the tale of Frankenstein, told from Aubrey’s perspective. He was the typical scientist, awkward, shy and utterly adorable. He made me laugh from the first pages because not only his creation, supposed to be a perfectly poised gentleman, turned out being a nude favouring, surfer dude with no propensity for decorum…but his lifetime love interest, Tris, was there to witness his failure and embarrassment.

I felt sorry for Aubrey, but for me the preparations, the ride toward the Halloween ball and the party itself has been the funniest adventure. It was also Aubrey’s wild journey to confessing his feelings for Tris and making a few realizations of responsibility towards the creatures he gave life to. It was a night of misadventures but told in such a humorous manner that Aubrey, Tris and their friends kept me smiling and snickering when not outright belly laughing.

The authors took the time to describe all the characters in a small way, making them seem almost tangible. They were all unique and quirky, not just the protagonists, and they had me charmed and happy for the time I spent reading this story and even after I finished it.

If you need a lighthearted, entertaining, silly, surprising and unique short story to lift your mood, look no further because this is definitely the book for you. I loved it.

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