Title: A Wicked Song
Author: Lisa Renee Jones
Publisher/Year: Julie Patra Publishing 8/11/20
Length: 217 Pages
Series: Brilliance Trilogy #2
Overview
Kace August: famous, intense, dark, addictive. Aria Alard: a woman with secrets, passion, and a dangerous past. Passion. Secrets. Mystery. Aria fell hard for Kace. She trusted him. But did he deserve that trust? And where is Gio?A Wicked Song is the second book in the Brilliance Trilogy.
My Thoughts
The summary here doesn’t do the story justice but does that really matter? When we see the intensity that the first book had, we know that we’re in for another rollercoaster and seeing where we left off at the end of the first book, we know that it’s not just a cliff that we’re hanging off.
We know the bond between Kace and Aria is something of fantasies – it’s so intense on so many different levels that there had to be a reason. Well, as we learned at the end of book one, it’s partially because Kace knows who she is, but thankfully there’s more to the story that we learn in this second installment. There’s a past, a part of their histories that converged in one of the best ways possible, and Kace has the struggle to get Aria to listen, and to watch and to trust.
While that piece of the story is playing out, the bits where Aria is too scared to trust, where she doesn’t know what Kace is really after, and at the same time doesn’t know who’s after her, we also get to see some other amazing things develop. Friendships, professional opportunities, and even enemies take form. We see that Sara is still as amazing as her entire series showed us and watching her become a friend and ally throughout this book is something amazing. Same goes for Crystal – she sees deeper than most people and what she has to offer Aria is everything that she’s been missing in her life.
Walker Security takes a bigger role in this book, and we see one of the fan favorites in the form of SAVAGE come back. He’s honestly one of my favorite people ever given that he’s so scary yet has this sense of humor that makes you love him. I guess that’s why he got his happy ending after all. Along with Savage, we have Adrian and Blake and they are on the hunt not only to help find Gio but to figure out who’s after Aria since someone definitely is.
As i’ve send before, this is a rollercoaster of a middle book in the trilogy. We watch the strongest of relationships fall apart and we watch them fight to find a way to come back together. Voices and people from the past come up to put wedges in between them, Alexander being one of the biggest issues, but I think that what we’ve always seen in Lisa Renee Jones books is that our mains don’t give up. They flight for love, for chemistry, for hope.
Life decisions are made that are far from the path that they should have gone down and we are left on another cliffhanger that we all expected, yet we don’t yet know why connections were made and what they mean. Thankfully I think that i’ve got the third and final book and i’m off to read it since i’m impatient. Enjoy!