Review: Ilsa Madden-Mills has done it again with VWT. AMAZING.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
After I first read Very Bad Things, I knew immediately to never set expectations where Ilsa Madden-Mills is concerned. She took the envelope and pushed it, in every sense of the phrase. I was instantly hooked into the world of Briarcrest Academy, knowing that something truly wicked was always going to happen. Expect the unexpected.Cuba "Hollywood" Hudson. Football star. Player extraordinaire. Didn't matter that he was still in high school. When you have money to burn, doesn't matter what age you are. All he had to do was flash that sexy little grin, and the panties dropped.  They didn't really know him like they think they did. No one knew him. They didn't care as long as they got a piece of him. Unexpected. Dovey. She was the exception. She was unexpected. Seeing her lithe body dance, put him in a trance. He had to have her. No matter the costs. No matter who got in his way. She would be his.Dovey. Ballerina. Scholarship student. She kept to herself. She didn't want the attention. She just wanted to dance. Change the circumstances that surrounded her life. Keep her secrets, keep her head down, and dance like no one was watching. She didn't know how it happened, but he charmed her. He tore down all her walls, and then... then he destroyed her.Each with their secrets to bear. Each weighted down by circumstances they never should have had to carry. Neither knowing how to escape. Pushing everyone away was only choice.Cuba and Dovey are two beautiful, downtrodden souls. Thrust together in a world where only the wicked survive. But can they do it together? Can each of them be saved?Ilsa Madden-Mills amazed me with Very Wicked Things. As I said, I didn't really know what to expect but based on Cuba's reputation it was going to be a thriller of a journey. Creating deeply emotional characters that are so much more than what they appear is what Ilsa seems to be best at. It brings to point that, appearances can be oh so deceiving. She made me laugh, cry, smile, sigh, scream from the injustice, cringe from the hate, and *swoon* from the love within the pages of Very Wicked Things.~Amy TTP