BLOG TOUR STOP~VERY BAD THINGS by Ilsa Madden-Mills


Title: Very Bad Things (#1 Briarcrest Academy)
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
Expected release date: September 10, 2013
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Age Group: Mature YA and NA



Book Description:

Born into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-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 soulmate.  But he doesn’t want her.
When it comes to girls, twenty-five-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.
Welcome to Briarcrest Academy…where sometimes, the best things in life are Very Bad Things.

   BOOK TRAILER 





REVIEW


**Warning the start of this is not really a review more of what going through my mind as I read. The review is summarise at the bottom** 

OMG what a fucking bitch of a mother my heart broke for Nora. Her family is completely screwed. Talk about family drama. 
Holy shit I feel sorry for her poor thing sanding in front all those people and not a single word... Until 
"Fuck Briarcest Academy, and Fuck you all"~Nora best fucking like ever love it and I now love her and its only chapter one brilliant start. 

"It felt good to be bad"~Nora 
ohh yes baby girl there is like being bad. (Totally crushing on her now my kind of girl BAD and totally CRAZY) 
A normal person would be appalled by  Nora's plans to be bad but I totally get it. When you are young and shitty things happens in your life that causes your emotions to run riot its an extremely hard thing to get those emotions under control and some times acting out is just a way of release. I know because I was that girl once.
I feel a very strong connection to Nora's character she has real depth and hurt she is broken and lost but that is not always a bad thing because in order to become strong you first have to know weakness. 
I formed a real emotional connection to this story, a few days before I read I got a new tattoo that say "What does not kill you, only makes you stronger"this book just re-enforced this belief. 
   Yes Nora is messed up by things that were beyond her control but underneath the hurt, pain self loafing and pain is a strong phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes. 

Leo Leo leo, Hot successful business man age 25 and guardian of this 17 year old brother. at a young age he learnt that loving people came at a price and a risk that he was not willing to pay; so he shut love out completely only having no strings hook up.  

"I never met a girl I couldn't say goodbye to"~Leo 
don't be so sure Leo boy you never know who is just around the corner or standing right in-front of you. 
"Why couldn't I push her away like I did everyone else? Why couldn't I breathe when I saw her? My heart knew the answer, and I'd realized it at the movies...I....I think maybe if I let her in, she might get under my skin so deep that i'd never want her to leave. That terrified me"~Leo

I swear this book is already the best and I'm only a few chapters in. 
OMG can I love this book any more; when I think not Ilsa pulls a total 180 you think you think you know where the story is headed Mr commitment phoebe Leo  completely runs away from Nora and shoot down all her advances.  
I felt Nora's pain of feeling unwanted, unloved and neglected my heart just bleed for her. All she wants is to be loved.
A mother who controls, abuse; emotional, physical and verbally. A father never at home and a monster for a half brother and no one to protect or shelter her from the tortures she has had to endure.....who would not be angry and want to act out. All she wants is for someone, anyone to care about her she is desperate for love and almost went about it the wrong way....actually she did went about it the wrong way before she woke up smelled her expensive perfume and set about sorting her self out.  
Leo and Nora tango was seriously epic the back and fourth hot and cold was giving me whiplash. "He was my Prince Charming, but I wasn't his Cinderella."~Nora 

Leo is being a pussy denying  his overwhelming feels for Nora, he says they cannot be together but then he can't stay away from her getting jealous, growling and getting protective confusing the hell out of Nora even more. I wanted to slap the shit out of him to stop hurting her but I understand his stand point of trying to protect himself and being scared of the feeling he was experiencing as they are ones he has never had before or dreamt of ever having for any women.  
I was so prod when she told Leo to leave her alone. She went about bettering herself for HER not for a man or friend but because she recognise she needed to share her problem confront those that has dine her wrong and move on to becoming someone she could be happy with. 
I just love the quote.

So many books just have to guy saving the girl or vice a versa. the reason why this is now one of my favourite of 2013 is because Nora saved herself and many times in life that is exactly how it goes down. I had no knight in shinning amour I only had ME as did Nora. She found her inner strength and soared to new highs. 
I love Ilsa she has gone above and beyond with this book it will always hold a special place in my heart. 


  






Author Bio:
Ilsa wrote her first work at the age of twelve when she penned a little ditty about a handsome prince who had no sense.  Since then, she’s written plays, poems, and numerous short stories. Very Bad Things is her first full-length novel and part of a new series called Briarcrest Academy.
She graduated summa cum laude with a master’s in English.  After graduation, she directed plays, worked with autistic children, helped start a children’s clothing company, and eventually had a family.  Now, she spends her days with two small kids and her Viking husband.  When she’s not typing away at a story, you can find her drinking too much coffee, jamming out to Pink, or checking on her carefully maintained chocolate stash.
She loves to hear from fans and fellow avid readers.  You can find her on Facebook and a soon to come author website.

Author social media links:
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THE GIVEAWAY 


EXCERPT


The Kiss in the Library

“I got one last request, and I’ll never ask again,” Leo said.
“What?” I croaked out.
He set his books on a shelf and then took mine and set them beside his. He tugged me to him until our chests were touching.
“What are you doing?” I mumbled in confusion.
He put his hands on either side of my face and slid them into my hair, letting out a breath as if in relief. “Just saying goodbye, Nora.”
“You’re going to kiss me?” I asked, tears pricking my eyes at the sadness in his face.
“Please, just this last time, Buttercup,” he said.
And with that one word, I was his.
He lowered his head, his gaze holding me captive. When our lips touched, his heated eyes stayed open and mine did, too. My mouth melted into his, moaning as his hot tongue explored the details of my tongue, my teeth, my lips. We started slow but it escalated rapidly, the passion between us burning higher and higher. He owned me with his mouth, and I was lost.
I palmed his ass, grinding myself against him. He hissed at the increased pressure and pushed me back against the sturdy bookshelf, positioning me so his hips fit into my pelvis. I lifted one of my legs, and he caught it and wrapped it around him.
“Say my name,” he muttered gruffly as I sucked hard at his neck. He grunted, and I dug my nails into his back as I kissed my way around his collarbone, sucking another spot.
Say it, Nora.”
“Leo, Leo, Leo,” I pleaded, arching my back and pushing into him.
He shuddered. “Fucking love that,” he whispered.
 He placed his lips back on mine, dominating my mouth, like a man starved. All I could think about was him, him, him . . . his lips, his tongue, his taste, his butterscotch smell. I wanted all of him, and I’d never have him, and that thought made me frantic. I gripped him tighter, pushed my nails deeper, and kissed him harder.

I never wanted to say goodbye.



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