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    Wickedly Wonderful
    Wickedly Wonderful
    Wickedly Wonderful
    Audiobook12 hours

    Wickedly Wonderful

    Written by Deborah Blake

    Narrated by Romy Nordlinger

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Though she looks like a typical California surfer girl, Beka Yancy is in fact a powerful yet inexperienced witch who's struggling with her duties as a Baba Yaga. Luckily, she has her faithful dragon-turned-dog for moral support when she discovers that a mysterious toxin is driving the Selkie and Mer from their homes deep in the trenches of Monterey Bay. To investigate, Beka buys her way onto the boat of Marcus Dermott, a battle-scarred former U.S. Marine, and his ailing fisherman father.

    While diving for clues, Beka drives Marcus crazy with her flaky New Age ideas and dazzling blue eyes. She thinks that he's rigid and cranky (and way too attractive). Meanwhile, a charming Selkie prince has plans that include Beka. Only by trusting her powers can Beka save the underwater races, pick the right man, and choose the path she'll follow for the rest of her life.Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 15, 2015
    ISBN9781494587772
    Wickedly Wonderful
    Author

    Deborah Blake

    Deborah Blake is the author of over a dozen books on modern Witchcraft, including The Eclectic Witch’s Book of Shadows, The Little Book of Cat Magic and The Everyday Witch's Coven, as well as the acclaimed Everyday Witch Tarot and Oracle decks. She has also written three paranormal romance and urban fantasy series for Berkley, and as well as a cozy mystery series about a run-down pet rescue. Deborah lives in a 130 year old farmhouse in upstate New York with numerous cats who supervise all her activities, both magical and mundane. She can be found at DeborahBlakeAuthor.com.

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    • 5/5
      Enchanting magical romance.

      Engaging characters: A powerful witch who looks like a flighty, hippie chick; her powerful dragon dog who has a penchant for smores, and a sexy ex-marine power this intricately woven plot of betrayal
      , magic, and love.

      The narrator does an outstanding job breathing life into the characters. As the author sets the scene with detailed world-building. Creating a story that will keep your interest from beginning to end.

      I love this series and look forward to reading the next book.
    • 4/5
      Wickedly Wonderful by Deborah BlakeBook 2 of the Baba Yaga series. Paranormal romance. Can be read as a stand-alone. Beka Yancy has finished her training and is on her first mission as a Baba Yaga. A witch in charge of protecting all magical creatures. She’s not quite certain of her magic or her right to be in her position. In only a short time, she will have to make the ultimate decision: stay on the path to being a Baba, or give it up to become human again. Marcus meets Beka when he brings up his fisherman’s net with her inside. She can’t tell him that she was saving a baby mermaid. Marcus doesn’t believe that Beka cut his nets to rescue a baby dolphin, but he’s fascinated by her all the same.Investigation, flirtatious behavior, a selkie prince and a mystery that’s making the local water population sick. Engaging and a gratifying romance.
    • 4/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: Beka is having some doubts about her future as a Baba Yaga, but she now has her first solo job and has to put those doubts aside in this much improved follow up to the first book in the Baba Yaga series.Opening Sentence: Marcus Dermott watched the sunrise from the windswept deck of his father’s fishing boat and wondered if the sea had changed, or if it was him.The Review:Beka is one of three Baba Yagas in America. She’s relatively new to the job, not even thirty yet, and she feels every bit as green as her age would suggest. Her mentor Baba Yaga always made her feel as if she would never be good enough, and now she doubts her ability to do the job. At the height of her insecurities, she receives her first solo job: figuring out what is making the merpeople and selkies sick. The job comes with a strict timeline, and Beka feels the pressure mounting every day. Working on this job puts her in daily contact with Marcus, a grumpy human she can’t stop thinking about. But a relationship with a human could never work out, could it? Will Beka discover the answer to that question as well as the solution to the merpeople’s problem, or will she decide to give up being a Baba Yaga and become fully human again?I was a little hesitant starting this one because my feelings towards the first book were mixed. While I still had issues with this installment, it was definitely an improvement over the first. I found myself greatly enjoying the plot, and the interactions between Marcus and Beka were wonderful. They certainly had chemistry, and I was on the edge of my seat waiting for them to get together.I had a much easier time connecting to Beka than I did the heroine in the first book. She felt very real, albeit a tad naive for my tastes. That’s actually my biggest (and pretty much only) complaint about the book. We find out early on who’s behind the merpeople’s illness, and all the reader can do is watch as Beka forms a friendship with the guy with no clue as to what’s going on. Maybe it’s because so many of their scenes are from his point of view, but it just seems so obvious that he’s up to something,and it gets frustrating that that part of his personality sails right over Beka’s head until the last minute.Despite my frustration with Beka’s naivete, I greatly enjoyed this book. It was fast paced, and I found time just speeding by as I read. It left me with high hopes for book three, which I plan on reading when I get the chance. I would say if readers felt that the first book had any promise whatsoever, they should definitely give this one a shot, as I felt it was a great improvement.Notable Scene:Through the gaps between the ropes, she could see the Merbaby clearly, swimming in desperate circles round and round the ever-shrinking space.His tiny pale green face was splotched with crying, although any sound he made was lost in the metallic grinding of the winch as it pulled the purse seine in tighter and tighter. As he spotted her, he shot over to her side of the net, making soft eeping noises like a distressed dolphin.Beka swam up to the choppy surface to gulp another breath, then down again; the trip was noticeably shorter on the way back, and she knew she was running out of time. It was tempting to use magic to blast through the net, but she was afraid that she might accidentally hurt the child, and magic often didn’t work well underwater, so in the end, she simply pulled out her knife and sawed away frantically at the tough fibers.Twice more she had to dart above to take a breath, but after the last time, her efforts paid off; she had cut a ragged hole not much more than two feet long, but large enough for the small Merbaby to exit. The fish within were already bolting toward freedom, brushing her with their tickling fins as they flashed past.She gestured for the Merbaby to come closer, only to realize that while she had been fighting with the robustly woven strands, the child’s tail had become entangled in a section of net, and he was trapped, unable to get loose from the seine’s unrelenting grasp.Cursing soundlessly, Beka raced to get one more deep lungful of air, then threw herself toward the hole and eeled her way through the impossibly small opening. Frantically, she fought the sinuously twining ropes until the little one was free and she could shove him through the other side. Only to find herself trapped in the quickly contracting net and rapidly running out of time and oxygen.FTC Advisory: Penguin/Berkley provided me with a copy of Wickedly Wonderful. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed #1 in this series, and also this book (#2)- although this one maybe not quite as much as the first, for several reasons. Still, it's a fun "mystery"/paranormal/romance mash-up, and I really love the modern-day Baba Yagas.Character: Beka is both powerful and fully trained, yet she does not have anything much in the way of self-confidence. (Barbara, in the first book, if anything was a bit over-endowed with such- but I loved that about her.) She is also naive past the point of plausibility in some important areas, which is particularly relevant when it affects her job rather than her love-life. I suppose some of this can cohere if one thinks about it; she was raised by an older Baba Yaga who felt threatened by her and systematically worked to lower her self-confidence via a lot of "negging"- so she was already pretty well groomed for an abusive aspiring boyfriend. I did find it weird, though, that she overlooked so much trying to think the best of him, even though he was interfering with her relationship with the man she was falling in love with! To whom, by the way, she was NOT a doormat!I did like her sunny character- so different from Barbara's in the fist novel!Marcus, her love interest, was mostly well-drawn, as was Kesh, the abusive aspiring "boyfriend", who must have been studying pick-up artist techniques. And Marcus's dad was great!Plot: I felt the plot depended too much on "lalala-I-can't-hear-you" at times. Also, when Beka told Marcus about her powers, I thought he really over-reacted, and since that particular crisis didn't make much sense to me, its resolution did not have a huge impact.Kesh's activities and motivations wobbled depending on what the plot required. It would have been interesting to see him actually choose between revenge and power, rather than just pursuing whichever fit into the plot best at the moment. Granted, he wanted both- but he had some hard choices to make about priorities there, and just... didn't.Minor but annoying: Kesh's eye color. On page 73 it's gray, as it supposedly typical of Selkies. On page 75, it's brown, also supposedly typical. Thereafter, it seems to alternate- to the point where I was wondering if it was a plot clue, but seemingly not; just Our Forgetful Author (to quote a title of space fillers in the old New Yorker magazine).It would have been nice to have some resolution of the mundane, waste-dumping aspect of the plot, rather than having that forgotten.I did enjoy it, and I am definitely looking forward to #3!
    • 4/5
      The first thing that comes to mind about Beka is that she isn't as hardened as Barbara was. She was sweet, trusting and pretty naive in some things. On top of that she doesn't have much confidence in herself and her position. She has spunk though and by the end she really grows into herself and her position. I liked Marcus. He had his moments, but he has a crazy past and the more I learned the more I understood him and started to root for him and Beka more. His grumpy old Dad had a place in my heart too by the end.Although there was action, I didn't think there was as much as book 1 had. It also 'felt' like not as much happened. Which in the grand scheme of things, I guess it didn't. WICKEDLY WONDERFUL was still worth the read and I enjoyed meeting Beka.I have enjoyed the series so far. The Babas have been interesting and entertaining. The world building is well done and I have learned something new in each book. We didn't see much of the Riders in WICKEDLY WONDERFUL, but it looks like they will be a big part of book 3. I look forward to meeting the next Baba and love interest. * This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.