Review: If you like ghost stories, this one is for you!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
“Of all the men to fall into bed with her first night in town, of course he would turn out to be a cop and Zach’s brother.”–Alexandra’s thoughtsAlexandra finally caves and goes to Charleston to find and convince Dylan to come back and give his brother Zach a chance to get to know him. She’s sent by the brothers’ mom. Their dead mom’s ghost, that is. As a medium, she’s used to getting badgered by ghosts and since Zach’s her boss and friend, she’s killing two birds with one stone. Oh, ‘killing’ may be a bad choice of word since a serial killer’s lose and has Alexandra in his sights, and the cop assigned to the case doesn’t believe in psychics–and is also Dylan, her one-night stand…“So her biggest fan was a total nut job serial killer?”–Alexandra’s thoughtsI loved this book! If you like ghost stories, this one is for you! This is the second book in the series, and there’s enough information that you’ll be fine if you haven’t read book one although if you have, then you’ll enjoy the references to the previous characters. What surprised me is that this book felt so different from the first book, which had much more humor in it, and yet I very much enjoyed both of them and appreciate the author’s range! This one felt more like a great paranormal/horror story with romantic elements rather than a romantic suspense as billed.Unlike the first book, I loved the heroine and not the hero as much, but that could be because in Something Wicked, the heroine is the one with paranormal abilities and the hero the skeptic. We really get to know Alexandra and her abilities as a psychic medium while Dylan’s not as interesting (how can you compete with someone who talks to ghosts?). Ghosts play a huge role in this book (one is a great secondary character that I wish could somehow get his own story), and I love the mythology/background that the author uses to explain mediums’ role in the grand scheme of things and how ghosts can change over time. There was so much tension and suspense since not only does Alexandra have to deal with supernatural malevolent forces, there’s also a mortal villain who seems to always be one step ahead of the cops.There is romantic tension, too, jump-started by a one-night stand encounter at the very start (which I actually wasn’t a fan of since it seemed out-of-character for both of them) and followed by the intense attraction between them (around medium heat level with few love scenes since the serial killer/malevolent entity story lines took center stage) despite Dylan’s distrust/disbelief of psychics, let alone ghosts.Overall, I really enjoyed this book and thought the ghost and serial killer plot was fantastic! It was like watching a scary movie where there were scenes that gave you chills, and Alexandra was a heroine that I could not help but root for! She’s such a giving and selfless person that I was cheering for her to beat the bad guys and find her happily ever after with Dylan. This is a 5 out of 5 for me!(Originally posted on my blog; I received a review copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.)