Review: #MUSTREAD
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
“Does doing a wicked thing make you bad inside? I must believe it doesn’t.”Let me start off by saying that I loved book one, Very Bad Things, but Very Wicked Things, blew me away!! Wow!!! It was way more complex and touched even darker subjects that made it an angst-driven page turner. I simply did not want to stop reading. I found myself saying “oh, crap!” several times along the way and just when I thought things could simmer down, Ilsa would shock me time and time again.“I still ached to have his eyes see me.”Something had happened between Cuba and Dovey. Something bad. My heart ached for them. Throughout the book we got to see them very much broken up, so I was curious to see WHY they were apart. Especially when I knew in my heart that they belonged together. And again, my heart ached. Hell, it broke. Quite literally. Their break-up?? HORRIBLE! I felt SO bad for Dovey…so, so, SO BAD. To say it was a humiliating situation would be a gross understatement. However, I sympathized with Cuba. I understood WHY he did what he did. Did it make it any less painful? No. But at the same time, I couldn’t hate him for it.“I gave you my heart, and you destroyed it.”This story line was a roller coaster full of very high ups and very low downs. My heart raced a few times and broke a few more. There was so much going on!!! So many things happened that just…wow. So many secrets and surprises. Dovey and Cuba had it ROUGH. And even though they tried to stay away from each other, away from all the heartache they had caused each other, they simply couldn’t fight it anymore. Slowly, they started falling into each other again. They started giving in.“Love is hard to define; it just IS. And, I don’t know why we fell for each other, two people from opposite worlds, but I knew I had to hold on to it, fight for it.”“I can’t f......g breathe without her.”Both Dovey and Cuba were in many ways forced to grow up way before their time. They had seen things no one should ever witness and done things no one should ever experience. Towards the end, I was about to have a full on freak-out moment. Really, I was. I could not see how things would work out for them! Things kept getting worse and worse to the point that I was super anxious. I needed Dovey and Cuba to get their happily ever after. Needed it.  But despite all that happened to them, their love persisted. It brought them together and better yet, kept them together. Suffice it to say I LOVED how this book ended. Loved it. I seriously can’t speak highly enough about this book. Ilsa really knocked it out of the park. I HIGHLY recommend you buy this book! You’ll thank me later. :)“Let go. I’ll catch you every single time.”