While Diesel constantly gets on her nerves, invades her home without permission, and even sleeps in her own bed against her wishes, she can't help but feel physically attracted to him. So Diesel and Lizzy become partners, which Lizzy can't decide if her forced cooperation is good or bad.
But Diesel's cousin, Gerwulf Grimoire-or Wulf, for short-is out to collect all the stones so he can unleash an evil power on the world (which makes you wonder why someone would create stones like these in the first place). The SALIGIA stones each represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and each stone is in the possession of "guardian" families who have inherited the stones through the generations. He informs Lizzy that she is an Unmentionable, a person with the ability to sense enchanted or supernatural objects, and he needs her to locate seven stones. She is content working at the modest pastry shop in town until her life is thrown for a loop by a man simply known as Diesel. The story is told by our protagonist, Elizabeth Tucker, who moves to Salem from New York after she inherits a house from her late Great Aunt Ophelia. This is just a fraction of what makes the delightfully bizarre tale of "Wicked Appetite," by Janet Evanovich, an entertaining read. It is a story involving a pastry chef with supernatural abilities, a book of spells that causes nothing but trouble, magical stones that embody the Seven Deadly Sins, a reincarnated monkey with an attitude, and a one-eyed ninja cat, all of which come together in the infamous town of Salem, Mass. Yet this author has recently released a new book, and it fits in well with the Halloween month theme.
She is a prolific writer who has been praised as funny and clever, and yet I hesitated to pick up one of her novels since her various series (one of which has 16 books and counting) did not seem like they would be my cup of tea.
Since I began working at the bookstore, I have had a particular author recommended to me over and over again.
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