Book Review: Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton

Wicked Charms is wickedly funny. It’s a good book to just sit back, relax, and unwind with after a hard day at the office.

Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton is the third book of the Lizzy & Diesel series. You may know Diesel if you have read the Stephanie Plum books; he’s branched out and is working with Lizzy now to collect the seven Saligia Stones. Each stone represents a different deadly sin; the stone they are after in this story is the stone representing greed.

Similar to how Diesel has a special ability to open any lock, Lizzy has a special ability to sense empowered objects, like the Saligia stones. A monkey named Carl also moves around with the group, he doesn’t have any special abilities, just basically gives everyone the finger.

There’s also Wulf who is Diesel’s cousin, and wants the stones to use for himself. Helping him is Hatchet, who thinks he is in medieval times. When you put this crazy group of characters together, you get a few laughs at their expense.

This story also adds a guy that thinks he is a demon, who needs the stone to be reborn fully as the demon. There is also his faithful butler, who likes to laugh. The guy who thinks he’s a demon is obviously crazy, right? Demons don’t really exist; I mean sure Diesel, Lizzy, and a few others they meet have these special abilities but surely this guy isn’t really a demon. Is he?

While you can read this book without reading the first two books of the series, Wicked Appetite and Wicked Business, I at least recommend Wicked Appetite so you can be appropriately introduced to the characters, and you’ll get a few more laughs out of the book if you know their background.

So, who gets the stone of greed? Does the crazy guy really become a demon? I’m not going to tell you. You’ll just have to read the book yourself to find out, and see what crazy funny trouble Lizzy and Diesel can get themselves into.

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