Wicked by Jennifer L Armentrout

Wicked (Wicked Trilogy, #1)

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET WICKED IN NEW ORLEANS.

Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Her duty to the Order is her life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she’d sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart.

Ren Owens is the last person Ivy expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. He’s six feet and three inches of temptation and swoon-inducing charm. With forest-green eyes and a smile that’s surely left a stream of broken hearts in its wake, he has an uncanny, almost unnatural ability to make her yearn for everything he has to offer. But letting him in is as dangerous as hunting the cold-blooded killers stalking the streets. Losing the boy she loved once before had nearly destroyed her, but the sparking tension that grows between them becomes impossible for Ivy to deny. Deep down, she wants… she needs more than what her duty demands of her, what her past has shaped for her.

But as Ivy grows closer to Ren, she realizes she’s not the only one carrying secrets that could shatter the frail bond between them. There’s something he’s not telling her, and one thing is for certain. She’s no longer sure what is more dangerous to her—the ancient beings threatening to take over the town or the man demanding to lay claim to her heart and her soul.

Reviewed by Angie on

2 of 5 stars

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I was quite excited for Wicked. I love JLA, fae, and New Adult! Sadly, this book is a bit of a mess. I loved the set up of fae hunters in New Orleans. Ivy belongs to a group known as The Order, and has been trained since a young age to fight the fae that want to take over the human realm. Their glamour doesn't work on her (or other members) so it's easy to spot who the enemy is. At least until one night when Ivy comes face to face with a fae who doesn't quite look like a fae and wasn't affected by her iron stake. Something bad must be coming.

Wicked annoyed me from the beginning. I am not a fan of pop culture references in fiction unless it's an important part of the world or story. Otherwise it feels like name dropping and severely dates the book. Also, I can't help but feel like it's product placement, like I'm being advertised at. Within 100 pages all of the references that I caught were The Walking Dead, Amazon Prime, Harry Potter, Brave, Barbie and Ken, Peter Pan, Lucky Charms, Game of Thrones, Twilight, The Muppets, Disney, Braveheart, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Secret Squirrel, and Theo James. After that point the references don't stop or slow, I just got sick of writing them down. It's beyond ridiculous. It also felt like the book was sponsored by Amazon because of how many times it was mentioned!

Then there's the actual plot. Obviously Wicked is the typical story of when everything the characters think they know is flipped on its head and everyone starts running around in a panic. Someone in The Order is a mole, giving up information to the fae, and I knew who that was as soon as they said someone has betrayed the group. Then there's mentions of a previously unheard of type of fae, who is super dangerous and part of some prophecy. I bet you can guess who that ends up being. There is nothing surprising here!

Wicked was just not my thing at all. It was too predictable, which was made more annoying by the characters actually being shocked like they had no idea it was even a possibility. Yeah, right. Then there's the mysterious guy who's part of a super mysterious group that no one knows about unless they're part of it, and yet he spills all of their secrets to Ivy within a day of meeting her, because of reasons. Then she blabs to her BFF, because that's obviously what you do with top secret information that can get you killed. Ivy also has this tragic past and thinks suffering is a competition and no one is as tragic as her and no one can possibly understand! Just shut up! My gosh!

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