Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Based on the publisher data on the verso of the title page, and the general character of genre fiction these days, this is intended to be the beginning of a new series. And, given that it’s based on a set of mystic stones related to the seven deadly sins, we have a potential of seven books here. I’m not really excited about it.
This is pretty much standard Evanovich. Plucky, vaguely unlucky, attractive-but-not-lovely heroine? Check. Wacky sidekick who complicates life further at all the wrong moments? Check. Hunky but unavailable hero? Check. Heroine becomes a stinky mess at least once? Check. Car destroyed before the story ends? Check.
The hunk in these books is Diesel, whom Evanovich readers have met in the between-the-numbers books featuring Stephanie Plum. Diesel is an “Unmentionable,” a human with certain enhanced abilities. He recruits our heroine, Lizzy, who doesn’t know she has enhanced abilities of her own. They need to find the stones I referred to above before the bad guys.
Really, I was ready to give this book a chance, but then Evanovich actually brought in the most obnoxious minor character from the Plum novels: a bird-flipping, mooning monkey named Carl. The other minor characters — a wanna-be witch, a one-eyed cat, a long-suffering boss — are pleasant enough, but I fail to understand why Carl keeps showing up.
