Though this book is ostensibly marketed to YA/MG readers, I think it is ultimately more suitable for younger readers. There are no surprising plot twists or complexities to make the reading experience a rich and multi-layered one. As I said before the book is breezy both in tone and execution. So…Camellia is busy what with stopping her adopted mother from taking over the…city and saving the boy she may like. Oh and Camellia also has to figure out how to uproot the demon from the boy-band boy before boy’s soul has been consumed by said demon and he can no longer go back to his boy-band ways. Because in three days, a phoenix is going to erupt at Camellia’s high school (where else?) and the witch has plans to harness the power given off by the phoenix-explosion to change things around their town by getting herself elected as mayor. The demon has a window of 3 or so days within which to complete the missions given to him by the witch and which he is contractually bound to complete. The summoned demon makes his escape into the body of the hapless boy-band boy who has the misfortune to be present when he is. When Camellia’s adopted mother who is a witch by profession attempts to seal a demon she has summoned into a mannequin, things, due to goat blood actually being cow blood, go awry. Tina Connolly’s Seriously Wicked is a breezy supernatural story about a girl, her adopted witch-mother, and coming to terms with your heritage, warty though it may be (just kidding, warts do not make an appearance in this novel).
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