Reporter Cody Walker is driving Roberta Vandenburg crazy. Besides being tall, dark and sexy, with bedroom eyes to die for, Cody refuses to even consider what Roberta is convinced is the solution to his increasingly dangerous problems. What, him abducted by aliens? You've got to be kidding. After all, Cody is just a simple man, as ordinary as toast, as normal as apple pie. It doesn't matter that he can't sleep, he's seeing strange lights, hearing voices, all symptoms that UFO researcher Roberta knows are linked to many of the alien abductions she's investigated. Cody stubbornly resists investigating anything that would put him into the same odd and unpleasant category as his runaway father. But Roberta, frustrated as she may be, doesn't take no for an answer, especially when the survival of the hard-headed man she can't help loving is at stake.
In Crazy in Chicago, author Norah-Jean Perkin takes us on a twisty, romantic ride along the lunatic fringe of modern-day Chicago. Cody is a reporter for an independent news magazine who is suffering from a variety of horrible ailments in the aftermath of a six-week disappearance of which he has no memory at all. Roberta is his neighbor who thinks his ailments may be due to alien abduction. Of course, given that Roberta works for an agency that investigates and reports on UFO encounters, she's just biased, right? You'll have to read the book to find out. Cody and Roberta were well-developed, sympathetic characters who I really wanted to have the happy ending they both desperately wanted. For me, the way in which Cody's disappearance is resolved fell a little flat. I won't go into the details here, but I would have liked to see more action during that particular sequence. Overall, if you like contemporary romance mixed with sci-fi, I think you'll find this an enjoyable read. Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.