Wicked Burn by Rebecca Zanetti - Review

This series started with a really sexy bang.  Rebecca writes gruff, macho, dominant Immortal beings and saucy heroines.  Witch Enforcers are pretty hot stuff even if they do go a little caveman all over their mates.  I loved Kellach and Lex who got the ball rolling with a high-speed romp through Seattle chasing a new designer drug that killed humans and had the potential to kill witches should they be shot-up with enough of the devastating poison.  Then came Wicked Edge with Daire and Felicity who took my breath away, man they were an explosive couple – a witch and a demon and here in Wicked Burn was another such pairing only this time the witch was a canny, successful, feisty Irish female called Simone and the Demon was bad-arse Nicholai Veis.

Although I didn’t write a review for Wicked Edge, it was my favourite, and unfortunately it still is.  This one went, I feel, on a little tangent losing sight of the understory.  The fight against the production and dissemination of a drug that poses a threat to all witches.  We are no closer to finding out who is manufacturing it, and no closer to knowing why.  Don’t get me wrong, I loved the chemistry between Simone and Nicholai, some of the sex was hot, hot, hot especially the mind manipulating ice and fire play.  But I did quickly grow tired of all the running and rescuing that was necessitated by the fact that Simone had multiple enemies, even those who were apparently trying to help her.  I was bemused by how they always seemed to find her even when she and Nick were ensconced in ‘safe’ houses.  How?  How did they know where she was?  That, my friends is a question that annoyingly is not fully answered.  A secret perhaps to be revealed in the next instalment.

The introduction of a new shifter species I also found a little eye-roll worthy, as they have never even been hinted at before.  It felt a little like Ms Zanetti was just jumping on the DS bandwagon.  Perhaps they will be a vital link in the future fight against Apollo, but if not then they weren’t really necessary.  The world is already so full of Supernaturals without them, I’m a little surprised there is actually any room for humans.

Now, however, this book did come with one delicious perk.  It has a novella attached, a short story about our favourite vamp and his mate – Talen and Cara.  Yes, my friends, it was back to the original.  It was sexy and adult.  It was raw, fast-paced - as is usual for a Zanetti paranormal - but this was about a couple’s transitioning relationship.  Certainly an interesting topic.  How can a relationship forged in adversity, survive the boredom of peace?  Where now do both Talen and Cara fit within each other’s lives?  It was a study in stamina and staying power; about first loves and purpose and renewal and vowing again.  It was finding one’s place in life – it was great and I loved it – it was the icing on the cake.

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Sydney Whyte

Rating Chart

«……………….A no goer

««……………Alright, but not a re-read

«««………..Liked it

««««…….Loved it

«««««…Amaze-balls – ticks all the boxes!!!