Book Review: EVIL GENIUS

Author: Catherine Jinks
Number of Pages: 552
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: May 1, 2007

Cadel Piggott is not your average boy. He's got the IQ of a genius, and loves studying systems, computers, and anything technological. When Cadel starts doing destructive activities with his talents, he is sent to a therapist. This therapist tells Cadel that his father, Phineas Darkkon, is actually a brilliant, evil mastermind who plans to take over the world. His father sends him to the Axis Institute, a university that he himself created specifically for his son. As he earns his degree in Evil, will Cadel realize that what his father is doing may not be right, or will he be blind to both his conscience and his morals?

I don't usually read spy/mystery/techy books, but I have to say that this one was quite good. It was slow at the beginning (it took around one hundred pages to really get into it) but after that it was very interesting. There were tons of plot twists and little details that kept things going at a pretty fast pace. I liked how the characters changed a lot throughout the book- some for the better, but many for the worse. It's not every day that you read a book from the point of view of someone who "supports" evil, so it was neat to see how that really played out.Overall, this was a good read, and I look forward reading the sequel, Genius Squad.

My Rating: :0) :0) :0) :0) 4 out of 5 smileys.

Would I recommend it to a friend?: Yes.

Yours,
NutFreeNerd