How to Marry a Warlock in 10 Days [Paperback]

Saranna DeWylde (Author)

Book Description

Release date: September 25, 2012

GOT WARLOCK?
 
Middy Cherrywood does. She's got more warlock than she can hex with Dred Shadowins. He isn't just a billionaire playboy and Weekly Warlock centerfold. He's a spy for the High Chancellor, and he convinces Middy to pose as his fiancée for his latest mission. Too bad no one told his mother before she slipped Middy a potion that will make their sham engagement all too real in just ten days.
 
Dred Shadowins already has his hands full with cursed objects, possessed nuns, and dreams where Merlin makes him pay for taking his name in vain by relating his sexcapades with Nimue. But by the end of the mission, he's convinced his most difficult challenge is the hero's cape Middy's draped over his shoulders. Because he wants nothing more than to give her the one thing he may not be capable of providing: Happily Ever After.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Brash, sexy and funny as hell." -Angie Fox, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Last of the Demon Slayers

Product Details

• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Brava (September 25, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758269161
• ISBN-13: 978-0758269164
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #634,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Saranna De Wylde has always been fascinated by things better left in the dark. She wrote her first story after watching The Exorcist at a slumber party. Since then, she's published horror, romance and narrative nonfiction. Like all writers, Saranna has held a variety of jobs, from operations supervisor for an airline, to an assistant for a call girl, to a corrections officer. But like Hemingway said, "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it." So she traded in her cuffs for a full-time keyboard. She loves to hear from her readers.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A magical love story filled with droll humor and more than a dash of whimsy. October 1, 2012

By Letitia

Format:Kindle Edition

Rating: B+ ... Heat: Hot

Midnight Cherrywood was stuck with an unfortunate nickname while she attended Academy as young witchling--Cherry-would-if-she-could. The person responsible for giving her that moniker? Mordred Shadowins. As is often the case with childhood crushes, Dred was covering up his true feelings for Middy by constantly picking on her. Fast forward more than a few years, and Dred now needs Middy's help to solve a black magic mystery... and when Middy agrees, well, she gets to turn the tables on the wily warlock and give him his just desserts.

Middy is a snarky delight. She starts out innocent, with a penchant to please, but after spending some time with Dred, she quickly looses her brain-to-mouth filter. And, as he is the staring man of her self-love sessions, she decides early on to loose something else to him. Yes, Middy is a virgin heroine, who is initiated into the joys of carnal bliss quite enthusiastically but, thankfully for me, I like that. If you're going to finally give it up, it might as well be in spectacular, mind-blowing fashion.

Which is just what she gets from Dred. Who, I must say, is not dreadful at all. He is a charming, charismatic, Viking-esque sex god, with a wicked tongue (verbally as well as... you know). He also has an air of danger and disrepute that pretty much means he is panty kryptonite. (Dred can magic my panties on or off anytime. Just sayin'.) But there is more to him than meets the eye and he has a protective streak that's a mile long... and a particular weakness for our sassy heroine.

Together, these two make my face hurt from smiling so much. When Middy started to laugh at Dred, after shooting a cranberry into his eye, and the more he glared - the more she laughed... I knew me and How to Marry a Warlock in 10 Days would get along just fine. My sense of humor and the author's were a glorious match. So many times I caught myself thinking, 'That is ridiculous.' As in, ridiculously hilarious. And please keep it coming.

This book really hits you with the funny right out of the gate. And it's done in such a creative and imaginative way--the things the characters say are so off-the-wall and colorful and fit the world to a T. It did peter off a bit towards the end, but it was replaced with drama and other goodness, so I didn't mind.

Because sometimes we need a good cry, and then there are times when we need smiles and outright laughter. This book gives you the latter in spades and even gave the former in a small doses toward the end.

Around 58% in, Chapter 16 specifically, things did get a tad confusing since I haven't read How to Loose a Demon in 10 Days. The characters from the first book pop in and start to meddle in Middy and Dred's lives and it made the flow halt a smidge. But it also served to make me want to read Demon and get to know Caspian, Grace, and little Sera better... So, it wasn't a big negative or anything.

The other secondary characters were great too. Everyone in this book brings the funny. I especially loved Dred's meddling mother, Aradia--because, really, with a son like Dred, Aradia would have to have a good sense of humor. It wouldn't be easy to know all of your friends (and the rest of the witch population) have seen your son's naked bits in Warlock Weekly.

Which, can I just say, I'd give my eyeteeth for a copy of! The mental images that dirty, naughty magazine gave me... Oh, boy. Women would pay good money for that to be a reality!

How to Wed a Warlock in 10 Days is a magical love story filled with droll humor and more than a dash of whimsy. Miz DeWylde has written a world that manages to be both sexy and silly--and I look forward to coming back to visit it often. I can't wait to see what kind of mischief Raven, Middy's eldest brother, causes in the next one, How To Seduce an Angel in 10 Days.

Favorite Quote:
"I thought all men, warlock and mortal alike, were eager to be first and last. Kind of like how cats feel they need to be the first one to mark the litter box."

"Midnight! You're virginity should not be compared to cat litter." He sounded like a scandalized grandmother.

-- A Romantic Book Affairs Review

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Read January 15, 2013

By Pamela R. Mitchell

Format:Kindle Edition

I really enjoyed this book.Ms. Dewylde knows how to weave a story from start to finish. Great characters, fabulous plot, and good vs evil. What more does a "girl" want.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fun and Sexy Romp September 25, 2012

By A Book Obsession.. TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback

For years Middy has been secretly lusting after Dred Shadowins, her childhood tormentor turned billionaire playboy extraordinaire. She has every issue of Weekly Warlock featuring a centerfold with him. Yet, she never wanted to make her fantasies a reality as he goes through women like water. She has more self-respect than that, or at least she thought so until he convinced her to pose as his fiancée. Turns up he actually is a spy for the High Chancellor, and his latest case is one stepping horrors, and Middy would do anything, even sacrifice her pride to help stop the ones responsible. Yet things take a turn for the interesting when Dred's mother gives Middy a potion that makes their engagement turn from a farce to a reality leaving her only 10 days to make Dred hers or she will lose her Magick forever.

I really loved Middy and Dred's characters. Middy is a outwardly confident Witch who more than holds her own against Dred. He's been around the block a few times, and women typically fall at his feet, yet Middy gives him one heck of a run for his money with her brutal honesty. I loved watching her turn him upside down and off balance. Dred on the other hand has much more to him than meets the eye. Sure, he goes through women like crazy, but that really is only to keep from letting anyone close. Despite his outward confidence, inside he is actually rather insecure and doesn't believe he deserves to be loved. That's a perception that slowly changes over the book as Middy starts to teach him the error of his ways. Of course there are more than a few bumps along the way, making for an incredibly entertaining ride.

I have to admit that I'm never a big fan of the whole virginity aspect in adult books, especially as the heroine goes from no experience to a borderline nympho after just one encounter. Seriously, that just earns books a major eye roll from me. In How to Marry a Warlock in 10 Days Middy is a virgin at the start, but a very self-experienced one, so that did help balance things out a little, and made it rather easy to ignore the fast pace of the "pleasure." Speaking of which, I wouldn't have though it possible after the very steamy nature of the first book, but this book was even hotter. The interactions between Maddy and Dred practically sizzle right off the page. I'm talking crazy hot. It was just one of those situations where the chemistry between two people was simply perfect, making their encounters full of fireworks. Don't get me wrong, the romance wasn't only sexual, as there was definitely a deeper element between them, even if it did take them a long while to admit to each other and even themselves. But in all honestly, that only made it sweeter for the anticipation.

I was fully immersed in this book, laughing and snorting the entire time, right up until the last third of the book where things just seemed to turn rather bizarre and underdeveloped. Don't get me wrong, it was still enjoyable, but it just didn't quite flow as well as the rest of the book. Add that with the rather anti-climatic resolution of the main plot, and I couldn't help feeling a little let down in the end, which is really a shame considering how strong the first two thirds were. I guess I just prefer my books to go out with a little more of a bang than this one did. That being said, I am still completely in love with both this book, and the series overall as they provide plenty of laugh out loud moments and incredibly hot romances that are not to be missed! I'll be eagerly awaiting the third installment, How to Seduce an Angel in 10 Days, set to release at the end of February next year.