Padme's Library: This is Not a Love Story: the Hacker and His Hero by AE Lawless

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

This is Not a Love Story: the Hacker and His Hero by AE Lawless

Summary:
Ever since Gran’s death, Zander’s been using his skills as an elite computer hacker to help put criminals behind bars. Surprisingly enough, there’s also another vigilante running around his city helping folks out in the more traditional way. The press likes to pretend they’re rivals, but Zander likes to think that he and the Night Angel are working together; they want the same things at least.

When a tough case forces the two vigilantes to actually work together, Zander’s insistent fascination with the Night Angel becomes powerful attraction. It wouldn’t be a problem, except Zander’s also fooling around with his boss at the day job, Reese. They both give him something the other can’t, but both of them are also holding something he needs back from him. Zander knows he has to choose, but he just doesn’t see any way to make a good choice.

A break in the case reveals not only the master plot, but more about Zander’s true nature than he ever expected to learn. Afterwards, Zander is seeing the world in a new light and realizes he may not have to sacrifice anything he needs; he may not have to make a choice after all.

I enjoyed this story. It's a bit of a superhero concept with a hero without any real "super powers" other than their pure intelligence and genius tech savvy. I love long stories and this is definitely a long story, however, I do think it would have been an even better tale if it was about 50 pages shorter. There is a lot of Zander's inner monologue weighing in on whether he's being too obvious about his genius that could have been shortened. There is a plot twist that really is not that much of a twist, I was able to see it coming almost immediately but it didn't take away from the story. For me, it was even more intriguing to see just when the characters would figure it out as opposed to whether or not my guess was right. I definitely enjoyed the extremely well written banter/flirting between Zander and Reese, not always something easy to convey. I will definitely be checking out the author's other works.

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Author Bio:
A.E. lives in south Louisiana where everything is bigger, covered in camo and made with more butter. She sweats her way through the summers because she loves the people, the food and the culture found only there.

She couldn't manage any writing at all without copious amounts of coffee and her writing partner: her cat Bacon.