To day is the day! It’s the release day for Escaping with a Supervillain. The sixth book in the Park family centered Supervillain Romance Project series.
Dive In Review
Escaping with a Super Villain is the last book in the Supervillain Romance project. A series of novels where each super sibling in the Park Family ends up romantically involved with a supervillain. Because of that I recommend not reading this before any of the others. I guess technically all you really need is book five, Accidentally a supervillain, but all the sibling and their spouses are in this book so knowing all the backstories might make this more enjoyable.
Mako has done his stint in the supervillain rehabilitation project. Now an official hero, he’s ready to propose to his long distance girlfriend Abigail Park.
This is a happily ever after that has been a long time coming for fans of the SVR universe. Unfortunately, in Burke books the HEA doesn’t come easily.
I cried when Abigail received her life altering diagnosis. I cringed every time some one brought up kids, knowing how it would effect her.
This book is more family time than most of the previous ones. The action stuff is limited to very few chapters towards the end of the book. The siblings and spouses go out for a group date. They go to an escape room, that turns out to be run by a deranged maniac. Can they escape his terror inducing trap or will his deadly puzzles claim a loved one?
As an Escape Room aficionado I approve of the puzzles. They made sense for the room themes and had a logic that made them sound solvable, even if I didn’t actually get the chance to solve any of it.
Side note: I will say is that the whole the-escaper-room-is-a-death-trap trope is very overdone. There has to be a way to write about escape rooms without them either being a means of murder or having a murderer chasing the heroes through one.
Side note the second: As someone who works in an escape room I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve fantasized about putting in a booby trap that goes off whenever someone cheats or breaks the stuff.
Side note the trilogy: I have played an escape room with H.L. Burke. She is somewhere between a Katie and Mako on the solver scale. Very good at puzzles but really just likes to poke at stuff.
Visiting the in-laws can feel like a trap—but this is ridiculous.
Recently reformed supervillain Thunderstruck, AKA Mako Saito, is head over heels for his girlfriend, Abigail. When she invites him to her family’s holiday meetup in Columbus, including an epic escape room outing, he’s got mixed feelings. On one hand, dealing with her protective superhero older brother, over-the-top superheroine little sister, and imposing superhero father is a lot. On the other, it’s the perfect chance to finally propose. Why, though, does it feel like she’s pulling away from him?
Still reeling from the emergence of her own superpowers and the effort of keeping them hidden, Abigail Park finds herself further derailed by a sudden infertility diagnosis. With so much instability, is she even the person Mako fell in love with anymore? When a slip of the tongue from Mako reveals her superpowers to her family, their relationship seems poised to implode.
The escape room couples date with her siblings and their spouses promises to be a welcome distraction. Until a vengeful villain hijacks the event to use the Parks as his own personal playthings. Now escape is no longer a game, it’s survival.
Can Abigail and Mako puzzle their way out of this trap? Or will the cost of this “family fun” be more drastic than a breakup?
Full series
https://www.amazon.com/Supervillain-Romance-Project/dp/B08NJTM8YT
Book 6 Only
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNNTKFYV
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248100298-escaping-with-a-supervillain
C. O. Bonham 