Review: Wicked as Sin

Wicked as Sin by Shayla Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wicked as Sin was my first Shayla Black read, and I confess to being a wee bit tentative before starting. Although I’ve been curious about the author’s work, I never quite felt the push to grab one of her books. Then, when Wicked as Sin had me curious, I found out it linked two of the author’s other series. Wicked as Sin is the first book in the Wicked & Devoted series, combining the author’s The Wicked Lovers and Devoted Lovers worlds. I feared I would not understand, but I was wrong.

I confess, it did take me a couple of chapters to truly get into this book. However, this was a result of something I’m not crazy about in romance and not a result of me failing to understand the world. There is a lot of talk about other characters and events, but they were all explained well enough for me to understand. The reason it took me a while to get into this one is because of the behaviour of one of the characters in this one. I’m not crazy about family and friends getting involved in a person’s love life, making the choice of who is and is not right for a person and this made it difficult for me to fall in love with this one at first.

As difficult as it was, such an aspect ending up being vital to the story. Once things started to progress, I fell deeply for this book. I was wearing a stupid smile as I read this, sucked right into the romance. It wasn’t quite as suspenseful as I’d expected it to be, but it was highly addictive.

I cannot wait for apart two of the romance between these characters. I have a feeling I know how certain details will play out – there were elements in this one that made it obvious something overused is going to appear in the next book – but that does not lessen my desire to see how this one concludes.

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