Reviews

Wicked by Jennifer L. Armentrout

chipy10's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

ali_sun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious

4.0

booksforourminds's review against another edition

4.0

4/5

Últimamente no dejo de leer libro de Jennifer L. Armentrout, pero es que esta autora para mi es la apuesta segura.

Ivy Morgan ha dedicado toda su vida a cazar faes, hadas malvadas que se alimentan de humanos. Esta chica es asombrosa, con carácter y valiente. Me ha encantado conocerla.
Ren Owens es el nuevo chico de la Orden y nada más conocer a Ivy, la tensión entre ellos será palpable. Este chico no me ha terminado de convencer, tiene una actitud muy posesiva, pero su humor me gusta y es muy sexy. Así que, no sé que pensar de él.
La historia se lee rápido, es adictiva y tiene un final que te deja con la boca abierta. Pero en mi opinión, no es no de cerca lo mejor que ha escrito Jennifer. Me ha gustado mucho, pero me quedo con otras obras de la autora.

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lauramndl's review against another edition

4.0

Wicked war eine mega Romantasy Geschichte. Ivy war einfach savage und ich musste bei ihren Aussagen echt oft lachen! Und die Chemie, die zwischen ihr und Ren herrscht ist meiner Meinung nach perfekt. Der Fantasy Aspekt zwar etwas und en Hintergrund gerückt, aber dennoch hat es mir sehr gut gefallen. Und mein Lieblingscharakter? Eindeutig Tink! Ich liebe ihn und seinen Humor.

thisiswhyshedied's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

hazelaudyy's review against another edition

3.0

GAMAU LAGI LAGI BACA SERIAL, YANG BUKU KEDUANYA BELOM TERBIT!!!!

AAAAAAGHHHH. NYEBELIIIN!!

steffy10816's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Loved the storyline and that it was set in New Orleans. I was able to picture the French quarter and the other places she mentioned. I gave it 4 instead of 5 because it was predictable to me. I figured a lot out very early on. I will be continuing the series, Tink is my favorite and Ren and Ivy are close seconds. 

plurabelle's review

2.0

2 Underwhelming Stars.

To be completely honest, I don't have the best track record with PNR books over the last few years. Add to the fact that I am not a fan of stories involving the Fae, and I guess you could say I was doomed to not be impressed by this book. And unfortunately that turned out to be the case with Wicked

Ivy is a college student living in New Orleans. She also happens to work for a group called "The Order", who's job is to hunt down Otherworldly bad guys - in this case, the Faerie Folk. One day she's attacked by someone who seems especially badass, and whom she believes was an Ancient...one of the seemingly unkillable (but supposedly extinct) members of the Fae. Her co-workers think she's a bit loopy, or at the very least got hit on the head too hard. Everyone it seems except the Hot New Guy, Ren. Who confesses he works in a super-secret section of The Order, specializing in hunting down the Ancients.

The writing itself was okay. And there were certain things I really enjoyed about the story. I am a huge fan of snarky sarcasm, so I loved most of the banter, especially between Ivy & Tink. Speaking of that smartass little Brownie that lives in Ivy's apartment, Tink was hands down my favorite park of the book. He actually reminded me a little bit of Jenks from The Hallows series by [a:Kim Harrison|17054|Kim Harrison|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1309989149p2/17054.jpg]. Jenks, incidentally, was my favorite part of that series as well. I guess I just have a thing for sarcastic, hot, little dudes.



Moving on....I also enjoyed some of the relationship between Ivy and Ren.
A typical YA leading man is part badass, part sappy romantic, and part frustrating asshat. Ren is not really an asshat, but is a bit too over the top in the "Oh-My-God-You're-So-Beautiful-I-Will-Die-If-I-Don't-Have-You" kind of way. I like a guy who is openly romantic, but Ren pushed it a bit too far.

The storyline involving the hunt for The Ancients, just didn't hold my interest. I found myself skimming a lot of the book in order to get to the sarcastic banter, or to the scenes with Tink. The supposed 'twists' weren't surprising at all in my opinion, and kind of felt like the author took the easy way out and just gave us a cliched and very predictable 'first book in a series' cliffhanger. As a reader, i am constantly frustrated by authors who feel the need to leave their readers hanging. Do they actually think that if the person reading the book enjoyed it - and if there was some kind of resolution to the first part of the story - that the reader wouldn't continue with the series? Leaving us with a cliffhanger isn't the solution. In all honesty, instead of feeling satisfied and happy about a book i just read, most cliffhangers make me angry that i invested all this time in a story, only to be told 'Hey, sorry about this, but i need to make sure you're going to read my next book...so let's leave everything up in the air AND/OR rip the hero/heroine apart for the sake of drama AND/OR set up a potentially life or death situation AND/OR just throw in some unnecessary angst to make the story arc longer and more frustrating for the readers. I really am sorry. But, don't forget to buy the next 6 books in the series!"



That little rant wasn't really directed at this particular author. But i guess reading this book reminded me how much cliffhangers and needless angst bothers me.



While i enjoyed certain aspects of the book...I guess the lesson i learned is that I am just not the audience for PNR YA. I need to stop getting sucked in by Cover Lust and hype. It never ends well.

may09's review

3.0

The characters gave me Poppy and Cas vibes , the plot gave me Lux 'serie vibes
It was okay , certainly not as good as the other 2 series but still an okay read

crazykajunchic's review against another edition

3.0

Unfortunately I think the narration put me off of the series.