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Laughed out loud all through this book. Very entertaining and full of magic adventure. Loved it. Can’t wait for the next one.If you’ve ever read and liked Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels, this book is in the same league. It’s a no-brainer. Read it. You’ll like it. I’m going to order more Lizzy & Diesel after I finish writing this review. Really!One m of my top 5 favorite authors for more than 20 years cause she never fails to delight. I didn't always know what to expect, which I loved. It's hard to write about the story without telling the it, so I'll just say I'm looking forward to the next book.This was a really enjoyable read. Nothing too intense, a good beach read. Fun, a little silly, but certainly worth reading!Whenever I read a book by Janet Evanovich I know I can count on being entertained & then some! She's clever, creative & outright fun. Wicked Appetite is full of really quirky people & a crazy spell of sorts that's been cast over most everybody ... & who doesn't like a monkey with attitude & a cat with enough "charm" to scare off appropriately bad people! If you like your reading pleasure to include sarcasm & plenty of insanity, this book will do the trick! Enjoy!I can’t wait to read the next book. Diesel is by far the hottest man I have never met. The book had me gripped from the beginning nDiesel the hunk and Carl the monkey!? Fun crossover surprise from the Plum series. Fun read. Ready for book 2.Your great aunt has left you a house in Marblehead, Massachusetts; you've left your job as a pastry chef in Manhattan and moved to the house. So far, so go. You even have a new job as the cupcake and pastry chef at a bakery in Salem. You like your new boss and have settled in, happily. Other than the fact that all your savings went to pay taxes on the house and it needs foundation work, everything is going great!Then one day, two very mysterious, gorgeous (of course), men arrive in your life and whatever peace you have had previously, you suddenly loose. But the fun the reader has in all these changes are well worth it! You won't want to miss out on the heroine's attempts to get her life back to normal. Hilariously entertaining!Lizzie bakes cupcakes for Dazzle's Bakery in Salem. It is rather a quirky town which has never really got over the witch trials in the seventeenth century. As a result there are some very strange people who live there and some equally strange happenings. Lizzie suddenly finds herself the centre of attention for two very attractive men - one of whom is quite scary and leaves a burn mark on her hand by just touching her. The other one wants to protect her because she has hidden talents.They are off on a search for some priceless relics which could unleash havoc on the world if they fall into the wrong hands. Put that together with a one-eyed cat called Cat, a monkey called Carl and a bakery assistant called Gloria - or Glo to her friends who doesn't quite understand the book of spells she's just bought and the reader is in for a roller coaster ride.This isn't quite my usual sort of reading but I found it entertaining and well written and I loved the humour. The characters are marvellously quirky and there are plenty of scenes which involved cupcakes. If you want light entertainment with plenty of magical happenings and lots of marvellous one liners then this could be the book for you. I'm looking forward to reading the next one in the series.Review: It took me the longest time to finish reading this book. I pick it up and I'll put it down, and then pick it up again after some time. I finally managed to finish it though by cheating and listened to the audiobook format. I would say that the story telling quality is not that compelling. However the story building skills is good. The book has cohesive story structure with a beginning, a middle and an end with a central dilemma which is resolved in the ending even if it also gave teasers for the next book in the series. I like that in a story. Authors like that with a "solid story structure" in their book tends to reel me in as a lifetime fan. One of the reasons I picked this book up was that I had experience reading Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, and I knew that this author has a solid "story building" and humour in her books. So I was so very happy to find out that she has decided to write in my genre, urban fantasy!! The main protagonist though, is too stupid to live although it is kind of part of her character make-up. She's a cook, not a kick-ass ninja. Still it irritated me a little. However, this is book 1 in a series and in my experience, book ones are not always the most brilliant in the series. Besides, for a book 1, Wicked Appetite is a promising start for a new series. Looking forward to reading book 2!Empirical Evaluation:Story telling quality = 1.5Character development = 3Story itself = 4.5Ending = 3.5World building = 4Cover art = 3.5Pace = (Approximately 6 hrs and 13 mins listening time.)Plot = 3Narrator = 4Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5I have read other novels written by Janet Evanovich and I always find her style funny and entertaining but this book was a bit better than I was expecting. This is a simple story but well organized and the action starts off on the first chapter, without the usual long and tedious introduction chapters where characters tell how their parents met and fell in love. It has a lot of good ingredients to make this a charming book for christmas holidays. There is a crazy town full of magical or "unmentionables" and some "questionables" that confuse spells. We have gluttony in all of its possible forms and cupcakes galore. We have a main character that is funny and easy to like and two magical guys. I was not sold in the choice of names, because, come one, the guy is called Diesel and that was a bit too much for me, but he is funny, although too similar to a certain cop in the Stephanie Plum series (yes, I am looking at you Joe Morelli)I do prefer this book to the S.Plum series, I think the author has achieved a better style here, it is fast, funny and keeps you interested in finding out what will happen next. But, beware, the book deals with the seven sins and guess what? This book is just the beginning, at least there should be six more coming in the near future.This is a very funny and entertaining read about Lizzy, who has inherited a house from her eccentric Great Aunt Opelia and is working in a bakery in Salem. Life is good and she is working on a cookbook she hopes to get published and enjoying baking up gorgeous cupcakes when a black car pulls up outside one morning. Suddenly, Lizzy's life changes forever with the arrival of the dark and sinister Wulf, followed shortly by the gorgeous Diesel. Both men are looking for something and, apparently, Lizzy is one of only two people who can help them find it. When Diesel insists only he can protect Lizzy from Wulf he moves in and suddenly Lizzy's life is becoming crazier by the minute.Lizzy is a very funny heroine, accompanied by a whole host of characters who give some depth to the story. There is Glo, who causes havoc with her "Ripple's Book of Spells", a woman who can only speak gobbldygook, some victims of various forms of gluttony, a one eyed ninja cat and a monkey with an attitude problem. Great literature it isn't, but it's a fun read and would make ideal holiday reading.I love all Janet Evanovich books and this one is no exception! Lizzie Tucker has had a disastrous time at school on account of her beaky note, a disastrous engagement with her fiancee getting caught hijacking a refrigerated truck (following which she drinks vodka, cries and falls off the toilet and ends up in hospital with a patched up nose which is now cute) and now a distastrous encounter with Gerwulf Grimoir, Diesel's werewolf type cousin. Her aunt died and left her the house just after she was 28 so she moved to Salem and became a baker of cakes and that is where they first met. They are all after the stones of the 7 deadly sins and Gerwulf is determined to beat them to it. The shopgirl, Glo, is late one morning because she called into the shop on Essex street that sold newts' eyeballs and suchlike and she bought a book called 'Ripples' book of Spells' - and that is where the fun really starts. Some spells sort of work and some work too much and it is difficult to get them right. Another unputdownable book with lots of intrigue and lots of laughs.