Review: Freaking Amazing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
OMGEEEEE! Ok, so, I really really loved Very Bad Things by Ilsa Madden-Mills. I loved it hard and I absolutely could not wait for Very Wicked Things but, oh man, Very Wicked Things was even better. Crazy good. The whole book was unexpected and so different than Very Bad Things in the very best way. I absolutely love to be shocked and boy did Ilsa shock me.Dovey and Cuba are both students and Briarcrest Academy. Cuba is the hottest guy in school, complete with football player status. Dovey is from the projects and at Briarcrest on a scholarship. Her priories are her guardian and ballet but Cuba has other plans. He cannot stop thinking about Dovey and he wants her. Dovey and Cuba are both so incredibly different but both so broken over their tragic past. Dovey's life gets super complicated in this book and Cuba's just tailspins out of control. It was really hard to imagine a happily ever after for them after reading this entire book. I was literally biting my nails while rooting for them."And this was no high school crush or first love like ordinary teenagers experience.Because I was not ordinary and neither was he. We were both survivors who'd managed to find each other amid the chaos"There are a few things I need to say before I wrap this up. This is what I would consider a New Adult book because these kids are seniors in HS, but it definitely didn’t read like one. It was so extremely sexy and dark and sexy. Oh My God! CUBA! He is full of all kinds of sexy alphalicious goodness and I was totally swooning. (feeling like a cougar) And Dovey, well she goes though some very dark and terrible things. It was all so unexpected and took a path that I totally did not expect. My heart broke for these two during this book. I cried quite a few tears for them. Ilsa also really set up the next book in this one and I am literally dying to find out what happens next.This was really super well written and a freakin brilliant story. I cannot wait for the next!