Review: Not your usual "hot actor meets shy make-up artist" romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
Wow!After having read The Corrupt Compte and Wild Burn - both books I truly loved - I gave Stripped a chance. I only did this because I`ve come to love Edie Harris` books because I`ve never been interested in the "famous actor" storyline. Not that Declan is very famous. He`s an Irish actor with some European fame but this movie is his shot at Hollywood fame, having gotten the part only because the famous actor who was originally cast, had to be treated for drug abuse.Declan is immediately attracted to Fiona. As a reader you're not really sure why except that it`s one of those inexplainable attractions. Fiona is attracted to Declan as well but holds back because she`s been terribly burned before and because he`s an actor who will soon disappear.It was lovely to watch these two wonderful people overcome Fiona`s hesitance and Declan`s busy schedule. It wasn`t easy, mind you, but all the more realistic. Fiona is sarcastic and short to push Declan away from her but luckily he`s smart and realizes why she`s doing this.I loved how Edie Harris didn`t choose the typical romance way of having Fiona opening up - Declan isn`t bulldozing her into anything. Instead he makes her trust him and that`s what it`s really about.It seems to me that Edie Harris knows her way around Hollywood vs European movies and I loved - but was also saddened by - the description of how Declan felt he needed to add more muscles to his lean figure to make it in Hollywood. As a European I've seen that too many times. Hot actors crossing the Atlantic and feeling they need a ton of pecs and six-packs to make it over there.Edie Harris has, with the three books I've read now, become one of my favorite romance authors and I`m so thrilled to have stumbled over her books because I was getting pretty frustrated with the whole genre lately.