Review: AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER I DIDN'T WANT TO STOP!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
How they say opposites attract could not be truer with Cuba and Dovey's story.  I loved this twist on the fairytale story all girls dream about.  What girl doesn't daydream of being whisked off their feet by the most popular guy in school?? I loved the journey that Ilsa Madden-Mills took us on an amazing rollercoaster of a story.  When you think you know how they story is going to unfold and bam.... Ms Madden Mills throws you for a loop and that I never saw coming.  My heart broke from both Cuba and Dovey and I wanted them to find that happiness in each other.  This amazing story is told in a dual POV moving from past to present tense and can be read as a standalone.Dovey Beckham is not your typical Briarcrest Academy student.  She comes from the wrong side of the tracks, she wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth and she doesn't wear the latest fashions straight from the runway.  She's there on a dance scholarship as it is her dream to become a dancer.  Growing up was not easy.  Her mother was a always strung out on drugs and alcohol and could care less if her daughter had clean clothes or food to eat.  Her apartment was over a dance studio and that would be Dovey's saving grace.  Dance became her life."There's many reasons why I dance. My body craves the impossibility of it, all those crazy twists and turns. IT's where I pour out all my fears and frustrations. But really, dance gave me life once when I think I was close to dying."Cuba Hudson appears to have it all, amazing good looks, charm, money, and the perfect family.  All that comes crashing down the day tragedy strikes their family and tears them apart.  Cuba is left guilt ridden and feeling like he's responsible for it all.  He uses girls and alcohol to mask the pain he truly feels.  Until the day he sees Dovey dancing.  He is mesmerized by her and the way her body flowed."It was as if I was finally waking up after being submerged in water for a year.  Drowning my feelings had been comfortable, and I wanted it back.  Because barely living worked for me.  It's what I deserved anyway.  But something had changed. "He pursues her relentlessly until she agrees to go out with him.  Even though they were opposites they clicked.  They were spending more and more time together and falling fast.  Then out of the blue, something changes and Cuba leaves Dovey without an explanation.  It appears that he was just using her like he did with everyone else.  This part of the story was so emotional for me.  It was heartbreaking and my heart literally ached for them both.  Remember there are two sides to every story and with Cuba, he's story broke my heart into a million little pieces."Life isn't fair.  Even for a kid from Highland Park who seems to have it all but doesn't.""Forget her.  You're a f***-up, I reminded myself.  And f***-ups don't get the good girls."A year goes by and it's like they are strangers to each other. They don't acknowledge each other; they just completely ignore the other until a class project brings them back together.  Old feelings resurface but Dovey cannot get past the fact he just dumped her, with no explanation. Can they work through the past to find where they belong in the present?"She was someone who'd loved me at one point, and right now, I just needed some forgiveness for the things I'd done."There are defiantly some moments had me screaming WHAT! And moments that had my heart ripped to shreds.  Their road to a HEA is not an easy one.... If there is one to go down at all???  It's a must read and an AH-MA-ZING addition to the Briarcrest Academy series.  If you loved Very Bad Things you will devour Very Wicked Things.  For me it was an emotional rollercoaster that I never wanted to end!"After bad things happen, it's up to us how we go on. The sun may be gone, but the stars are still there, waiting, always giving you light."