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Their story begins when they’re almost done with their semester
abroad, and their relative acquaintanceship turns into something much more
intimate. However, feelings get hurt, and a lot goes down before they find
their way back to each other. There’s plenty of back and forth with their
sort-of relationship, and seemingly neither of them knows what to do with what’s
going on between them. Throughout this book, we see Rylan and Hayley go from
not even friends to more than just being together and how they navigate it all.
Something I really liked about this book is the level of
angst between Rylan and Haley and their traumatic backstories. I found their
heartbreaking stories added to their characters and made them more real in a
sense. I’m not a big fan of when characters are just perfect all the time, and
Rylan and Haley have had less than perfect lives that have defined them. Both
of their lives before coming together are just so sad and emotional, and they
made me feel for them even more when they were dealing with what was going on
between them.
Overall, Hayley and Rylan’s story kept me interested. The
drama that was so prevalent in the book helped make it one that I became
invested in. I do wish that we had a bit more development with how the
characters managed their new-found circumstance. I love seeing a character’s
inner turmoil and then how that translates into the way they deal with the
other characters and would’ve appreciated more of that here, but we do get a
sense that the things that transpire between Rylan and Hayley were not easy.
Then from there, I loved how their relationship was able to evolve into
something so much more than what I expected.
Wicked Schemes has a lot of drama between the characters,
but there’s so much tenderness and growing there, too. It’s the sort of book
that will make you feel and leave you satisfied.
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