Very Bad Things

Briarwood Academy, Book 1

By: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Narrated by: Emily Durante, Sean Crisden

Born into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any 19-year-old girl could desire. She's an accomplished pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high school. She's perfect. Leaving behind her million-dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl hell-bent on pushing the limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex. Then she meets her soul mate. But he doesn't want her.

When it comes to girls, 25-year-old Leo Tate has one rule: never fall in love. His gym and his brother are all he cares about...until he meets Nora. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung up on their six-year age difference. As they struggle to stay away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will flare, and hearts will be broken.

©2013 Ilsa Madden-Mills (P)2014 Tantor

a fantastic YA romance

I floved this book!!! the performance was fantastic, I'm a huge fan of Ilsa Madden-Mills and yet I've not read this series. tou can bet that's changing now!!!

Great read!

It's a page turner as you follow Nora on her quest of self discovery. It's wild and dangerous! Awesome read :)

Very good would read again

When a 19 year old finally has her rebellious stage she stumbles upon a gym owner thats new to town. it seems like a forbidden love but 6 years isnt bad at all.

Not A Bad Thing

A quest of self-discovery wrapped in angst and fraught with past issues of incest, rape and mental abuse. The sensitive subjects were dealt with in a sensitive manner. And we saw her grow up to find her HEA. It just felt too long, too drawn out... either that, or I just couldn't connect with it. The narration was high quality. If you think you'd like the book despite the multiple issues and drama, go for it. I'm going to take a pass on the rest of the series.

love this story

Nora and Leo's romance was one of the best that I read this out far this season. I loved how much Nora loves after everything has happened to her. Leo is just so scared and it was just so amazing to see and hear what he went through and why he was the way he was. he is a protector, I love that because he knew she was hurt but didn't know that why. so for him to just just put everything aside of what she did to him and help her is something amazing to read in a book. the only thing I really didn't like was it didn't really give you an ending there wasn't much that they told you about what happened afterwards so that is something that I miss when the books don't complete each other. but I will probably read the rest of the books in this series