Wicked by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Audiobook) [Adult Content Warning] I am a big Jennifer L. Armentrout fan, so WICKED has been on my TBR for a while. I know I like her style when she writes under the JLA pen name, so I didn’t even bother to look at the blurb. Wicked has all that I love about a JLA novel, but it also has a lot that I didn’t love. Jennifer L. Armentrout also writes under the pen name J. Lynn. I read a J. Lynn novel once and quickly realized why she wrote it under another name. (I will not pick up another J. Lynn novel again) Wicked, while not being quite as graphic as the J.Lynn novel, was pretty close to it. The blurb does state that the character is 22, and it does allude to a heat factor, but the sex scenes are not glossed over in any way shape or form as it is in other JLA novels. As a fan of her work, I just wish I was warned in the blurb. I understand writing in different genres, but if you are a YA author, I really think there should be at least a warning so you know what you are getting in to. Okay – rant over. I did, believe it or not, enjoy this book. The hero is not the most likable. He is a playboy who wanted to get in the heroine’s pants the moment he saw her. Not my type of guy, but okay, I went with it. I did enjoy the heroine, and I loved her sidekick, Tink the Brownie. This was an exceptional character.

At its roots, this is an interesting paranormal story– something like Shadow Hunters set in New Orleans. If you enjoyed Shadow Hunters, you’d probably love this. Just be ready for a foul-mouthed hero, and some pretty graphic intimate scenes. And a very predictable twist at the end, but when it comes right down to it, JLA writes so well that sometimes it is fun to read despite knowing what is going to happen.

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