A Review by Maggie:
Don Tillman is a genetics specialist, highly intelligent
able to memorize anything in a very limited time. He is very literal---sort of an Amelia
Bedelia type. He does have personality
issues and is on the Asperger’s spectrum scale and is riddled with OCD. When he decides he needs a wife he creates a
16 page questionnaire so he can weed out wrong types---ie vegans, smokers
disorganized people and women that are habitually late. He has the results sent to his only friend
Gene so he can weed them. He gets few
responses but when Rosie arrives in his office he presumes she is a result of
the survey. However, she meets none of
the criteria—she smokes , is always late and worst she is an almost vegan (only
eating sustainable fish). Rosie is
meeting with don for another reason his genetics expertise, She wants to find her biological father---as
the ones she call Dad is a personal trainer and certainly not the type of man
her brilliant deceased mother would
choose to mate with----She has Don checking all her mother’s past beaus. She is sure she will find DNA that matches
hers. Hilarity ensues as the search for
the match takes them to two continents.
In the meantime the only respondent to Don’s questionnaire
is a champion ball room dancer---she wants only to meet fellow dancing
experts. No problem Don believes that he
can learn anything from reading about it and practicing----he borrows a
skeleton from the anatomy lab to learn how to dance----it also comes in handy
at a later date when he things he might have a sexual encounter. Simison skills are such that this is funny
not prurient. He is an imaginative
writer and easily provokes laughter in the reader. Things get wound up to the reader’s
satisfaction.
If anyone has read this book tell me why the author keeps
referring to his dead sister that dies from a medical mishap.
