Very Wicked Things

Briarwood Academy Series, Book 2

By: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Narrated by: Guy Locke, Savannah Peachwood

Ballerina Dovey Beckham is a scholarship student at Briarwood, determined to prove that she's more than just a girl with the wrong pedigree. She does whatever it takes to succeed, even if that means surrendering her body - but she will never surrender her heart.

Until the day she meets him and he rips apart all her well-laid plans. Suddenly, the girl everyone thought was unbreakable might just shatter.

Cuba "Hollywood" Hudson is rich, spoiled, and a star football player. With his fast cars and superficial girlfriends, he lives the high-life, hiding his secrets from the world.

Until the day he meets her, and she offers him something he's never tasted: love.

But once-in-a-lifetime kind of love doesn't come easy. When trust crumbles and doubts creep in, both will have to decide to either love or let go forever.

©2014 Ilsa Madden-Mills (P)2016 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Shocking in the best kind of way... extremely sexy and dark with a hero full of alphalicious goodness." ( Red Cheeks Reads)

I wanted it to hurry up and be done!

I listened to the first book in this series and like it, so I thought I’d follow up with this one. I really wanted to like it but just didn’t… Maybe to read it would’ve been better but to listen to it, I just wanted it to be over. I realize the characters were high school students so there’s the angsty drama but it just went on and on. I felt like there were too many sub plots instead of focusing on one. I’ve enjoyed other works by this author so I’ll give the next in the series a try and hope for the best!

performing/ editing awful

The editing was awful, especially with the male voice. would completely change tone/ speed/ reflection in the middle of a sentence.

ok story line but a lot of it seems very far fetched.

Weird narration

The male narrator seemed to switch from talking right close to the mic to far away. I don't know if it was the narrator or the production of it. The female narration was fine.

I really did like this a bit more than the first in the series. This one can stand alone and just overlaps the first as far as characters. There is something this novel doesn't conclude with a different character but no true cliffhanger.

Not for me

This story was not for me. Main male and support characters have sex with many people. Especially the H. Yeah he broke up with her but he did that so he can screw around with other people. The love between the MCs felt forced and the drama were senseless. This was supposed to be high school? Wow! Cannot recommend bc the H continue to sleep around and this right here is not love or romance even if they were young. This story was contradicting on cheating. And the author made it look like he didn’t cheat bc he broke up with the h. The h was definitely a doormat.

All the feels ❤

Ilsa Madden-mills you are amazing ❤ This series has all the amazing feels ❤ 5+++++ stars ❤❤