Wicked Magic

Wicked Sisters #3

by Lindsay Lovise

Missy’s story—the conclusion to the Wicked Sisters series.

Genres: Halloween, Paranormal, Fiction, Fantasy

Paperback

First published September 8, 2026

About the author

Lindsay writes romances with brave heroines and a twist of mystery, as well as thrilling YA books. Although she earned degrees in English and teaching, she always knew she wanted to write stories about fictional worlds.

When she’s not writing, Lindsay is reading, drinking coffee, and avoiding laundry. She lives in Maine, where the winters make for perfect reading weather.

To keep in the know, sign up for Lovise Letters at lindsaylovise.com.

Reviews

[Morgan]

I need more people to read this series! I was so invested in the Celeste sisters and their witchy path to falling in love!

“You, Missy Celeste, are the most incredible creature on earth.”

I think Missy and Atlantes book is officially my favorite in the series! I LOVED grumpy Atlantes and how opposite he was from Missy. He has felt the weight of all the witches counting on him while also being ostracized for his particular brand of magic.

Missy was an absolute whirlwind. She truly helped Atlantes start living and accepted his power fully without fear or judgement. There was so much great banter between them, and also a lot of healing along the way.

“With this Wicked, he was free.”

Also, that spicy barn scene will live in my brain rent free from now on! 🫠💋❤️‍🔥

“I’m going to remember this moment for the rest of my life. It’s burned into my memory. You, sprawled in a hay barn, screaming my name.”
“I’m not screaming your name.”
The look he gave her was pure hunger. “You will be.”

I’m so sad the series is over but I have hopes there will be more books set in this world! If you love magic and forced proximity romances, you have to check this one out!

Tropes:
☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
✨ Magic
🤭 He’s a Witch & She’s Wicked
💃🏻 Forced Proximity
🫶🏼 Possessive MMC
💍 Fake Engagement
💖 Opposites Attract
❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn + Spice

[Drea | Borrowed Library]

4.5 ⭐️ my favorite in the trilogy. I loved this book! One day I’ll get to my backlog of full reviews.

Thank you to Lindsay for giving me this arc directly. I am forever grateful. What an amazing ending for the Celeste sisters. ♥️

**Update**

This is book 3 in the Wicked Sisters trilogy and this is my favorite of the series. Ya’ll these two are hot hot hot. What is it about forbidden romance/opposites attract that create the best banter and tension?! Let me back up though… While this book can be read as a standalone I highly suggest reading the first 2 books first. This series centers around the Celeste sisters, who are wickeds, the supernatural beings who possess magic that creates destruction, the counter balance of witches, who have powers of “good”. This book is about Missy, the last Celeste sister and Atlantes, a pillar witch who needs her help in understanding a problem in the witch community. This book has a laundry list of the best tropes - enter fake dating, forced proximity, grumpy x sunshine, opposites attract and forbidden romance! It was so good and I loved every second of this book. It is also the spiciest of the series, which sometimes makes me cringe when it’s excessive but this was perfection.

Read this series if you enjoy cozy magical books with witches and supernatural mystery. Each book brings a unique story, adorable sisterly bonds, dreamy mmcs, great side characters and excellent world building. I am so happy with how this series ended and bummed that it is over.

Ranking of the series:
* Wicked Magic (book 3) 4.5 ⭐️
* Perfectly Wicked (book one) 4 ⭐️
* Just a Little Wicked (book two) 3.5 ⭐️

I can’t thank Lindsay enough for my gifted digital galley in exchange for my honest review.
This book is set to publish on September 8, 2026

This was my 80th book of 2026
Format: Gifted digital arc

[Karissa]

Series Info/Source: This is the third (and final) book in the Wicked Sisters trilogy. I borrowed this on ebook through Kindle Unlimited.

Thoughts: I absolutely loved this third book in the Wicked Sisters trilogy. This book follows Missy and we learn a lot more about the balance between the Wickeds and the Witches.

Missy made a deal with Atlantes, one of the Pillar Witches; she will help him figure out the disease infesting the Witches' network of magic if he promises to go on ten dates with her to make her ex jealous. Atlantes hates Wickeds and Missy in particular; when Missy enters his life it is nothing but chaos. However, Atlantes can't help but admire Missy's intelligence and toughness. When their fake dating ends up with them at a couples' retreat, things start to steam up between the two of them.

This was an excellent balance of romance and progression of the story about the Wickeds, the Witches, and the Shadow Council. Missy is the bubbly one, the extrovert, and I was worried I wouldn't like her as much as the other sisters. However, I ended up really loving her as a character and really enjoying Atlantes as well. The chemistry between the two of them was off the charts. This is definitely a sort of opposites attract type of story, and it was very well done.

The mystery behind the disease in the Witches' magic network is also fascinating. I really enjoyed how this mystery progressed and loved the resolution to it. We get closure around the Shadow Council and around the instability surrounding the Wickeds' magic.

This was an engaging story that was hard to put down and incredibly easy to read. The story pulled me through the book, and I read it in no time at all. I love reading this series in the fall and was a bit sad that we will be leaving this unique family of Wickeds behind. I thoroughly enjoyed this paranormal romance series. It is heavy on the romance but also has a good story and unique world to back up that romance.

My Summary (5/5): Overall I absolutely loved this conclusion to the Wicked Sisters series. Both Missy and Atlantes are fascinating characters and have excellent chemistry. I loved the progression of the story around the Wickeds and Witches and how everything tied up. This was a fun read, that was steamy and engaging. I have loved all the books in this trilogy. If you are looking for a wonderful fall read with good family vibes, steamy romance, and an intriguing world and mystery, this is a great series and I would highly recommend it.

[Lindsey Foltyn]

Thank you to the author for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Summary
Missy, a golden retriever puppy in a human suit, needs help getting closure from her wet dishrag of an ex, Greg. Enter Atlantes, who in turn is a wet cat in a human suit. Conveniently, he's asked Missy to help him with some sort of magic...metaphysical...bank, I guess, because someone has uploaded a computer virus into their technical systems (jk nothing about this is like a computer).

This is all rather convenient for her, because Atlantes (whose name may or may not be pronounced like the fictional drowned city) is super-hot and tall and a very powerful witch. Handy! In exchange for clearing up the virus (because that's her "evil magic", viruses), she demands ten dates and some witchy information. Sure those dates are going to be a ruse to get the aforementioned dishrag jealous, but does it really matter when, again, he's like, super hot and tall?

Anyway because things historically go poorly for puppies trying to be functioning members of society, things get complicated on like, page four. Missy is an immediate target of a shadow organization (literally Shadow Council). The pair go on exactly one date that ends up with her agreeing to a pre-marital couples retreat with a borderline religious cult and her ex/his fiancée. And there's that damned disease at the witch bank, and the guy responsible for that branch (our MMC) cannot fix it. Oh and also there's a social media account to run and the existential dread of being a full adult and not knowing what to do with your life.

All to say, guaranteed HEA and satisfying conclusion to the trilogy for sure!

Vibes
It's easy to tell you've picked up an interconnected book, but that doesn't actually take away from anything - the story can stand up on its own. I don't know how readers of the other two books would feel about that, because maybe there is a lot of redundant information, but it was nice for me! The characters are a little corny, but look at that cover. You know what you're picking up. Despite the stakes, it remains cozy. Struggled to put this one down, tbh!

Spice Rating
🌶️🌶️️🌶️/5

Tropes
Paranormal Romance
Reverse Black Cat x Golden Retriever, Grumpy/Sunshine
Magical Bond
Frenemies to Lovers
Enthusiastic Consent
Fake Dating
Family Bonds / Family Saga
Only Soft for Her
Interconnected Standalone
Third Person, Dual POV

[Alyssa Reads and Reads]

Wicked Magic is a fantastic conclusion to one of my favorite witchy series. If you love magical mysteries, great world building, and grumpy sunshine goodness too, you’ll have a great time reading Lindsay Lovise’s latest romance.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pillar witch Atlantes needs Missy’s help. Part of his job is to uphold the witch’s power network, but now parts of it appear to be dying. As a Wicked, the magical group who balance witches’ good powers, Missy’s power can create diseases and trace their origins. Of course, powerful Atlantes hates the idea of asking his mortal enemy for assistance. Meanwhile Missy wants the hottie’s help to make her ex jealous, so barters her help for 10 fake dates. But Atlantes and cheerful Missy have an unexplainable bond too…

Atlantes and Missy are grumpy sunshine perfection with chemistry for days. They truly bring out the best in each other. It’s wonderful to see them open up to each other, even as their respective magic draws them closer too.

While this story can be read as a standalone, I think it’s more fun if you’ve read the first two books too. And really, why would you want to miss out on a minute in this witchy world? The world building here is great, with just the right amount of detail for readers to be invested without overwhelming them with minutiae.

I was having a rough few days when I read this book, but Missy and Atlantes, and their quest to save witches and wickeds alike was a wonderful escape. If you are a fan of witchy romances with a dash of mystery thrown in, you’ll love Wicked Magic. I’m thrilled that Lindsay Lovise has given readers the complete Celeste sisters series, and I can’t wait to read what she writes next.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this ebook. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

[psst]

4.25 🌟

Lindsay Lovise has never let me down and her streak continues.

I did prepare myself for disappointment when I realized that we would not be getting a fake dating plot between Missy and Atlantes getting nauseous while pretending they liked each other until something magical bonded them or something idk. Okay, I was more than I little disappointed based on my notes, but I clearly moved past it because I loved this third and final installment to the Celeste sisters’ story.

I went back and forth between wanting to keep them as far away from each other as possible and wanting to lock them in Atlantes’ isolated house away from everyone else. These two loved to oscillate between being the worst kind of idiots and being the best kind of support the other needed and I never knew which one would appear next.

The cult side quest was…odd, but I didn’t hate it. I just wish we could have done it without Greg. Fuck Greg.

It took me three days to read this because I would re-read entire sections over and over because I enjoyed them so much which would normally mean 5 stars to me, but I cannot bring myself to rate it that high. There were just too many plot points I just straight up did not enjoy and felt like they could have been removed completely or reduced and we would have gotten to the same ending and for that I have to dock it a bit.

📚 Author Pre-Order

[Joanna]

Thanks so much to Lindsay Lovise for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have had so much fun with this series but I think this is my favourite book of them all.

Missy is such an interesting character and it worked perfectly for her story to be the last in the trilogy. Her personality also created the most perfect grumpy/sunshine romance I've read in a long time.

This book ties up all the plot points from the first two books so well and in ways that absolutely work with the world, magic and characters. We learn more about the Witch and Wicked societies without things getting too heavy, even though the stakes are a bit higher.

We still get fun fake dating, great character development, a few twists and some insane spice. Reading some parts of this book in public had me blushing.

If you enjoy paranormal romances, this trilogy needs to be on your list. I couldn't put any of the books down and I can't wait to re-read them all.

I'm so sad to say goodbye to these characters but this was the perfect end to the trilogy.

[Nancy Kay]

Easiest 5 stars. And I don’t give those lightly these days. And it is incredibly rare to have every book I read in a series be 5 stars, but here we are!
Lindsay you knocked the Celeste sisters series out of the… orchard.
I think this book was actually my favorite out of all three and I don’t even see how that’s possible because I loved the first two books so much too.

I’m all in my good feels finishing this story.
You know that feeling you get after watching a romance movie and you just want to soar or dance because it’s just such a great feeling/ending and you just need to celebrate!? That is how I felt finishing this book.

If you’re into paranormal/witchy modern day romances with a fall/apple orchard scene- this series is for you!
I hope many find this series and book and love it as much as I have.

There is spice and language. But the hot yearning kind.

Thank you for the ARC Lindsay, the thoughts and opinions of this review are all my instantaneous own.

[Alexandra Pedrini]

I was gifted an ARC by the author for my review. I was so excited to get this book after really enjoying the first two. The series does a great job at building off the world built in the last book, and then making each stand alone in a great way.

I had so much fun reading this book and Missy may have become my favorite of the three sisters. I found myself laughing a lot throughout the book. Honestly it was a great time!

The tropes at troping in the best way, and I thoroughly enjoyed the journey the book took us on. If you love a witchy/paranormal rom com, this book is perfect.

[Heloise]

I adore this series. “But some women done mind a touch her and die man, or being owned a little bit in bed you know?” I loved the relationship they built as well as the interactions they had and making Greg’s life hell.

Screaming over the weekend away, that Richard was such a man ofcourse he used that as an excuse. So many great tropes in this one! I’m sad to see the series end but what an amazing time I’ve had reading it

[Sahana Ramnath]

I've been having the best time reading the third Wicked Sister's books the romance is always so swoony and slow-burn and perfect, and the witch plot is so intriguing! The hurt x comfort in this almost ended me, and I absolutely loved how this book perfectly wrapped up the plotlines of the trilogy!

-- ty to the author for an advanced copy!

[Amelia]

WHEW GIRL. What a beautiful and stunning conclusion to the series! Missy and Atlantes were everything I could’ve hoped for and more and the plot woven through the series was wrapped up with a neatly wicked bow. I couldn’t be happier to have been with this series since the beginning. Each book has been a new adventure and an utterly fantastic read.

[Nichole Potter]

The way she has written all three books is just a work of art. She manages building an entire complex world without sacrificing plot. I loved every minute of it and just am sad to see the end of the Wicked Sister’s series. I really hope she writes more stories like this. I would love to see how she could do night and day walkers

[Clarice Bouchard]

Trop bonne série ça