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Wicked by Amo Jones

3 reviews

coffeeandbookobsessed's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

📚⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
🎧⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥🌶️🌶️🌶️

Dual narration performed by Michelle Sparks & Grayson Owens

• Mafia Princess • MC • Then & Now • Hidden Identity • Trauma • Dark Romance •

It’s an interesting mix of mafia, motorcycle club, and secret society. The plot was good during the first like 75% but then the end and tying of all the plot lines together was confusing and lackluster. The big bad puppet master was taken down too easily. Parts felt very rushed, lots of hopping around without clear transition. 

The spicy scenes are feral! Wicked is very aggressive and they’re both into breath play. 

Michelle and Grayson did amazing with the audio!

CW: torture & gore

There’s a secret baby but the first meeting between him and his dad is nonexistent and Wicked and Ruby barely have a fight about her never telling him about his son. Then he falls so effortlessly into coparenting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

deb_1970_uk_bookrecs's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

A Confusing Mess of Timelines!👎
A 2.5 Star Read & Listen For Me.📖 🎧
'Wicked' By: 
Amo Jones
🎧 Audiobook  Narrated by: Michelle Sparks, Grayson Owens
Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

I found all of the timelines jumping around, without any real explanation, to be not only annoying but also confusing and off-putting to read and listen to!

It actually completely ruined my enjoyment of Wicked and Ruby's story. There was no real explanation for Skully, Victor, or the Bratva.🤷🏻‍♀️ Then, there were all the fake deaths.🙄 What happened to Ruby near the end was just gratuitous violence for the sake of it, at that point! 

All in all, compared to 'Sicko', this was a complete letdown in quality and content for me. I'm sure it hit differently for others, though.🤷🏻‍♀️

The narrators were ok. I might feel swayed by the content, sorry.😟

Debbie, 1970, UK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

readbooksbehappy's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Very hard to follow the storyline.  The scenes jumped around a lot and left me feeling that things were incomplete and unexplained.  The summation in the last chapter just didn’t make up for the lack of continuity in the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Self harm and Trafficking