Here’s a review for Wicked Sense in my stop in the tour. Enjoy!
About Wicked Sense
Witches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy, the Veil.
Skye’s London coven sends her to Seattle’s Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Skye’s job gets even trickier when she clashes with intimidating rival witch Jane and meets charming new classmate Drake.
Drake falls for the mysterious Skye, but odd accidents, potion mix-ups, and the occasional brush with death kind of get in the way of romance. Once he discovers Skye is a witch, he goes to war for her, even though his only weapons are a nice set of abs and a sharp sense of humor.
Fighting off wicked Jane and the other dark forces hell-bent on seizing the Singularity’s immense power, Skye and Drake will risk everything to save the covens.
Going on a date has never been harder.
Winner, 2012 Sandy Literary Contest – 1st place – YA category
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My Review
I love witches! Well, not really but books about witches. And this one is another awesome read in that list. Fabio has crafted such a wonderful set of rules, magic and world in this novel that I was pulled right in into it. We land smackdab in the heat of things, conflict first, explanation later. I love that! Even in a book or in a movie or in a show. I just want to get to the action asap! Haha! See how impatient I am?
And it gets better because it’s told from both Skye’s and Drake’s POV and he-said-she-said is so my thing! Seriously, I can live reading he-said-she-said romances forever. Hahaha! So okay, they like each other but the romance did not take the frontseat and I like that about this book. The mission to find the Singularity is still the priority and honestly, I sometimes get sick of novels that forget their plot and just focus on the romance. Because if it’s a paranormal romance, I dunno, I guess paranormal comes first? Never mind what I’m saying.
Even though it seems like this novel would be such a cliche, I dunno, it felt refreshing and fresh even for a YA novel about witches and cute boys. Goes to say that with the writing skill, you can still carve out a name for yourself even in this witch-saturated literature landscape. The characters were so great I’m missing them right now! This was a quick read and I hate it because I wanna spend more time with Skye and Drake! Heehee, I’m such a predictable teenager. Haha! Her growth throughout the novel and how she dealt with everything, it’s just so perfect. These characters are not whiny and THANK GOD FOR THAT. Seriously, sometimes I pull my hair out with whiny YA heroines. Haha!
Anyway, I think I’m just babbling but you have to get my point: GRAB A COPY OF WICKED SENSE AND READ IT! Yeah, I typed it loud and clear so there’s no reason for you not to read this. And Fabio, can we have the second book already? Gah, waiting kills me!
About Fabio Bueno
Fabio writes Young Adult/Urban Fantasy/Paranormal novels. He resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and kids. When not writing or reading, he geeks out with family and friends, solidifies his reputation as the world’s slowest runner, and acts very snobbish about movies.
He’s also: author of YA paranormal WICKED SENSE, family man, gamer, “runner,” geek, kindle hugger, coffeeholic, x-men hopeful, district 3 tribute, hufflepuff, daydreamer.
Dianne, thank you for this lovely review! It’s very rewarding to read a review like yours.
And don’t worry, I’m working on the second novel :)