Bad Things Author: Visit Amazon's R.K. Lilley Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0615822762 | Format: EPUB
Bad Things Description
- Series: Bad Things
- Paperback: 366 pages
- Publisher: R.K. Lilley (June 11, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0615822762
- ISBN-13: 978-0615822761
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Move over, James Cavendish! The brilliant mind of R.K. Lilley has dreamed up a smoldering new hero and his name is Tristan Vega. Never has a character evoked in me such polarizing feelings than the male protagonist of Bad Things. Tristan's immeasurable charm with a dash of extreme pig-headedness either had me wanting to punch him or hug him. I could completely sympathize with Danika's erratic displays of emotion around the man who looks like trouble with a capital "T". Early on, Danika foreshadows the turbulent relationship suggested by the book's apt title when she muses, "Bad things were going to happen if we spent too much time around each other."
While it's in conjunction with Lilley's Up in the Air series, Bad Things is a standalone novel, taking two of the trilogy's minor characters, Tristan and Danika, back to the start of their relationship. Danika is a young college student, working as a nanny in Las Vegas when Tristan enters the picture, upending her world with his irresistible good looks and his ability to appear as comfortable in the kitchen as he is on stage as lead singer for a rock man. I melted. I swooned. I daydreamed of a fictional bad boy with magic hands and delighted in the combustible chemistry between Tristan and Danika that resulted in many a steamy love scene.
Because the book is largely narrated by Danika, hers is the character with whom I most connected. All of her thoughts and emotions are fully bared, holding nothing back with her tendency to say whatever's on her mind. R. K. Lilley compensates for the lack of Tristan's point-of-view by setting clear boundaries for his feelings and expectations. He knows what he wants and there's little mystery about what's going on in his mind.
If, like me, you're a bit of a R.K. Lilley fangirlie, then you're probably already a little familiar with Tristan and Danika. We've had a few teasing hints of their story in the Up In The Air Trilogy. We know that they were not speaking to each other, that Danika limps and this has something to do with Tristan and that she has forgiven him but is unable to forget what has happened in the past. It's all very mysterious and we begin this one years before when Danika is just twenty-one and they meet for the very first time.
Danika is instantly attracted to Tristan but he makes it clear that he is only into random hook ups with women and doesn't do relationships. Danika, having grown up without much in the way of love, is always looking for relationships, desperate to be loved and is a bit of serial monogamist. They get on so well together and agree to be best friends and never allow a sexual relationship to damage that relationship. They mean a lot to one another and, despite the deep attraction they both feel, agree to just be friends and even make a list of rules to abide by.
Danika is such a sweetheart - she's refreshingly honest, sarcastic, sassy, a fantastic dancer and is like a breath of fresh air to Tristan who is used to false, fake women. She's had a hard and challenging childhood that's shaped the way she feels about relationships today. She just wants to belong to someone and for them to belong to her, to be loved in a way that one one has ever loved her. They spark up an incredible friendship and start to mean so much to one another that they fear that their sexual attraction will ruin it and Tristan is desperate not to lose her.
Well, R.K. Lilley has done it again - she's made me fall hard for her hero. Just how much did I love Tristan?
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