Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 Someone has to say it and it might as well be me: Seriously Wicked is seriously adorable. This is a light YA urban fantasy, suitable for tweens and up (actually it's pretty G-rated, but I'm guessing it will be most interesting to tweens and younger teens as opposed to younger kids). 
 This is cute, and for me it fell on the "just right" end of the cute spectrum, and not the "So cute that I want to barf" end. If you find the preceding instructions to be more on the barf end of things, then this is not your book (although you might like Connolly's wonderful Ironskin series, which is rich in fantasy with not a whiff of cuteness about it). 
 One thing I liked about this book is the nuanced way it deals with supporting characters. Sarmine is abusive, but she's not one-dimensional. Her desire to have a relationship with her daughter, her grief over her lost husband, and her belief that she has to protect Camellia by making her tough turn her from a caricature into an understandable, though still pretty awful, person. I also liked Camellia's best friend, Jenah, who refuses to be pushed away by Camellia when she realizes that something is wrong. 
 This book doesn't have a full-on angsty love triangle but Camellia does have an unwanted admirer in the incredibly awkward Kelvin, who tutors her in algebra and supplies her with goat blood (his mom runs a farm, and fear not, the blood is in very small, non-lethal quantities). Kelvin may or may not be on the autism spectrum. He masks his social anxieties by pretending to be a robot, but I never get the sense that the author is mocking Kelvin. I loved that Camellia tries to appreciate him, insists that he is not creepy, and is always honest with him about her feelings, even switching to robot voice herself once to help him understand the she likes him, but doesn't love him: "Love is strange and nonmechanical. Does not compute." 
 The only thing I didn't like about the book was the fate of Sparkle, the high school's Mean Girl. I felt that it came out of nowhere and was unnecessarily cruel. Given the fact that Camellia and Sparkle were friends as younger kids, I would have liked to have seen a reconciliation - it would have been more in keeping with Camellia relates to the other characters at the end of the book. The reason this book is a B+ instead of an A is that the Sparkle arc sat wrong with me - it was a jarring note of ugliness in an otherwise lovely story. 
 - Carrie S.