WICKED
Sasha White
Berkley Heat
ISBN: 978-0-425-21918-8
January 2008
Ultimate Romance

WICKED is the newest hot release from author Sasha White. Karl Dawson is a bad boy turned divorce lawyer. Growing up he was always on the wrong side of the law, covered in tattoos, etc, until his parents and their idyllic love is killed in an accident. Wanting to make more of himself, Karl turns his life around and gets himself through law school. That doesn’t mean he has completely gotten rid of the bad boy inner self, he has just learned to hide it better. Though he has the model of his parents marriage, everything he sees in his life as a divorce lawyer has turned him cynical to love and the “happily ever after”. Then Lara Fox walks into his office.

Lara is the consummate loner. Love ‘em and leave ‘em having as much fun as she can while she can. She does not think she forms relationships, but this is disproved over and over again in this book. To start, both Karl and Lara are just looking for sex. Good sex. Hot sex. Kinky sex. Lara’s attitude that she would try anything once, and Karl’s buried (from the public) dominant side really heat up this book, but can either go deeper than casual sex?

I’ve seen a maturity to the books which I have read by Ms. White. Lara and Karl are rich, three dimensional characters with feelings, concerns and desires. Karl is very realistic in his view of his sexual preferences. D/s relationships can come in many flavors, and in books, many times they can digress into caricatures. WICKED does not do that, and while it takes the sexual fantasy fairly seriously, it does so in a realistic and interesting way. I devoured this book in one sitting and enjoyed every minute of reading it.

Reviewed by Sarah Silversmith
Rating 4