Fans of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series will be drawn to Wendy Higgins’s sexy, thrilling Sweet Evil series.
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She’s aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but Anna, the ultimate good girl, has always had the advantage of her angel side to balance the darkness within. It isn’t until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He’s the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.
Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 3/5
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Summary
Oh, Sweet Evil. What do I even say? This book features a narrator torn between her demon father and her angel mother. This means she's always torn between the urge to be good and the urge to be bad. I'm similarly torn between deciding if this book was \"pretty good\" or making a face at it. It was for sure one of those books with the kind of main idea that made you go \"Gee, why didn't I think of that idea? I'd be rich!\" Problem is, I feel like while the plot was cool, it wasn't handled in a way that made it memorable. The thing with Anna's mother being an angel almost felt... Unnecessary? Like that entire plot line could have been edited out? The idea about children of the demons would have made a great storyline all alone. Instead, the author uses Anna's angel side to make her a typical \"good girl\" who, as usual, falls for the bad boy. The romance took up an awful lot of page time that could have been used to build up to a great action conflict. Of course, I have to give the author credit: there was one scene I was REALLY impressed with. Some authors try to write a party scene, but they take the protagonist away before things get wild. Higgins wrote one of the best party scenes I'd ever read, keeping things wild enough to be interesting but not getting weird. So. If you're looking for a book with a great party scene, this is it. I think I enjoyed this book- but I'm not sure. I'm recommending it... But whether I actually liked it deserves some thought. It had a hot romance and some wild, moral- absent characters, so if that's what you're looking for, this is your book.
Violence-The only really violent part was when someone is shot in the forehead, which made me wince. Other than that there is some people punching and smacking at each other.
Language-I'm always bad at remembering, but I think the f-bomb was dropped and some mild swearing.
Sexual- Uh. This book talked A LOT about sex. There was also a really hot make out scene but most of the sex occurred away from the narrator's eyes. Think IMPLICATIONS. A few of the characters were also involved with prostitutes.
Drug & Alcohol-I've never given a book a high rating of drugs\\alcohol, but this is YA, and for YA, it was a little shocking. The main focus of the book is that the main character is supposed to encourage people to use drugs and drink heavily. There wasn't a huge amount of drug use (it was snuck into people's drinks) but the alcohol use was frankly rather heavy.