Something Wicked

De: Eden Winters

Narrado por: James Amherst

A mysterious legacy. A magical journey. The worst guide in history!

Piers Adams never knew his parents or birthplace. All he wants from his mundane life is a better apartment and fewer working hours serving drinks at a club in Asheville, North Carolina. Sure, weirdness happens around him occasionally. Coincidences, right? He can’t possibly wish things into existence. After all, he’s only human. Maybe.

It’s hard living down to a nickname like Wicked, but Prince Wycke Bertillian of the magical realm tries. He enjoys his lack of responsibilities until he’s coerced into a clandestine mission: find an evil sorceress’s hidden son in the human realm. A chance encounter awakens magical potential beyond what either realm has seen before.

Barely managing his own life doesn’t qualify Wycke to guide a novice sorcerer with infinite magic and zero self-preservation skills. Unfortunately, it’s Wycke or nothing standing between Piers and those who’d take Piers’ magic for themselves—magic powerful enough to rule two realms.

Piers and Wycke had better get their act together. Their lives and the fate of the human and magical worlds rests in their highly incompetent hands.

©2022 Eden Winters (P)2025 Eden Winters

Wonderful story and audiobook!

This is my review of the audio version.
I really enjoyed this story. I liked the combination of the normal human world and the magical realm. I liked the various characters and their varied species. And I loved Piers and Wycke. There was a bit of everything in this book: heartbreak, humor, love, and hatred. There was lots of wit and sarcasm, wonderful friendships, and characters determined to make things right - even though the magic sometimes went wrong. I was fully invested in Wycke and Piers, and I was often on the edge of my seat.
The wonderful author and talented narrator made this a story that will stay with me, and it is one I highly recommend.

Good!!

This was a great fantasy/urban fantasy book with goings on both in the mundane world and the magical one. I really enjoyed all the characters but especially Piers and Wycke! There was a lot of magic and danger with action and a little humour thrown in.

I haven’t listened to this narrator before. It took a bit to get used to his cadence but I liked that he tried to differentiate the voices and accents. I’d pick up another book read by him again.

A perfect blend of fantasy, romance, and humor!

I usually struggle with books that are a blend of urban fantasy and high fantasy themes, but Eden Winters was able to blend her fantasy world with the modern human world enough that I could really immerse myself in the story. The worldbuilding in Something Wicked was excellent, Piers and Wycke were sweet together, but my favorite part was the entertaining cast of secondary characters. It wouldn't have been the same book without Jess, Chynne, Saris, George, and the rest. The narrator did a really good job differentiating between the different characters' voices as well.

I hope Ms. Winters has plans to return to this world for more books because it feels like we've only scratched the surface of possibilities. This was a thoroughly enjoyable read for both fantasy and romance readers!