Wicked Charms Book Review

I went to the library and saw Wicked Charms: A Lizzy and Diesel Novel (Lizzy & Diese​l) by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton on the shelf!  I was so excited so I grabbed it up.  I looked at the beginning and it didn't look familiar so I went to the computer to check my blog to see if I read it.  See what I use my blog for!  It replaces my brain because I wasn't certain whether or not I had actually read it since all the books in the series start with "wicked."  The great news is that I hadn't read it and I was excited to check it out and see what crazy stuff was going to happen in this book.

Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier “Peg Leg” Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate’s treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice—the very item reluctant treasure seeker Lizzy Tucker and her partner, Diesel, have been enlisted to find. While Lizzy would just like to live a quiet, semi-normal life, Diesel is all about the hunt. And this hunt is going to require a genuine treasure map and a ship worthy of sailing the seven seas . . . or at least getting them from Salem Harbor to Maine.  Greed is eternal and insatiable, and Lizzy and Diesel aren’t the only ones searching for the lost pirate’s chest. People who have dedicated their entire lives to finding it are willing to commit murder or make a deal with the devil just to hold the fortune in their hands. One of those people may even be Wulf, Diesel’s deceptively charming and enigmatic cousin. Wulf desires the Stone of Avarice. He also desires Lizzy. It’s hard to say how far he’s willing to go to gain either one.

I loved it and read it way too quickly (I think that it might have been less then 12 hours).  I was sad when I got to the end because that meant the chaos was over and there wasn't another book in the series to pick up and go to because this was the newest.  There was laughing and crying and I couldn't put it down which meant that I again lost sleep to another great book.  I enjoyed the great writing and the great characters.  I am not sure how two authors wrote this book together but the characters held true to the first books and the plots ran just as quickly with as many twists and turns so I couldn't tell the difference.  I hope that you check out this book and others in the wicked series the next time you are at the library or bookstore.