Review: Jasinda Wilder has written another great one!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
Full review with photos at Ana's Attic Book Blog. 4.5 Stars!!!Jasinda Wilder has a gift for storytelling, there is no question about that. You can tell by each and every book she writes. But when you look at them all, you see how truly awesome that gift is. Because Jasinda can write hot, sexy and fun books (Big Girls Do It, Delilah's Diary, Biker Billionaire, and more), a beautiful war romance (Wounded 5 stars: on sale for $.99), a rip-the-heart-out-of-your-body NA (Falling Into You, Falling Into Us) and now Stripped, a Pretty Woman meets Footloose  story with intense romance that kept me reading all night long."No daughter of mine will engage in such lewd and sinful behavior as dancing"Grey was brought up the daughter of a Pastor. But not just any pastor, her grandfather was also a pastor. Her dad was as strict as they come, and refused to let her even take dance lessons at the local dance school, until her mother, the only person who ever really understood her, softened him up a bit and let her try. She was an amazing dancer, and dance was the only way to express her need to be free. But Grey soon discovered filmmaking was what she really wanted to do. When she presented her dad with the scholarship she was awarded to go to film school..."I expected better of you, Grey." His voice suddenly hard and whip-sharp, and I flinch. "I really did. Film school? That's worse than any lewd dancing. You would be working with the scum of the earth. People who think it's okay to glorify murder and dishonesty and sexual perversion."When there was nothing left to make her stay home, Grey decided she was going to California and taking the scholarship, forcing her father to disown her. Grey had been brought up so sheltered that she had never even had a boyfriend, and now she was off to college to fulfill her dreams, all alone.Grey had an amazing opportunity as an intern at a film studio. Her college grades were excellent. But her scholarship ran out. She was left with $400 and her tuition and nobody to turn to-- room and board were due quickly. There were NO jobs to be had after weeks of searching. Desperate, Grey, who was brought up to barely show an inch of skin, takes the only job she could get."Daddy was right. He said I'd fall into a sinful life, and I have. I just got a job as a stripper. I'm not going to glorify it by calling it "exotic dancer"... I'm going to do it, though. I won't go crawling back to Macon, Georgia."This demure young lady, who was brought up with no rock music, no makeup, no boys, and to be seen but not heard is forced to become a stripper to keep a roof over her head.".....a single tear drops free to mingle with the sweat on my upper lip. I'm officially a stripper."Then one night, Dawson Kellor walks in to the club. People's Sexiest Man of the Year, and the hottest Actor in Hollywood."Sharp features, penetrating hazel eyes, dark hair somewhere between brown and black. Tall and ridiculously ripped, with sculpted arms and a broad, hard chest. He's Brad Pitt and Henry Cavill and Josh Duhamel and so much more."And he's looking at Grey with possessive hunger like she's never seen before. Guys can look, but they can't touch at the club. But when he reaches for her...well, she just can't find a way to stop him.We're still dancing together, moving to the music. I'm staring up at him, lost. "I don't--I don't do extras. You can't touch me.""Yet here I am, touching you."..........His palms slide like lava over my naked hips and I'm trembling, frightened, terrified. Consumed..........."You don't belong here"Dawson and Grey meet again, and he is so sweet and protective of her. He takes care of her. He carries her to her dorm room in front of the whole campus. And Grey feels things, things she knows she shouldn't because of the way she grew up."I wan't to slide off my chair and into his lap, and I want to kiss him again. The thought terrifies me. I shouldn't want him. He's...wrong. Wanting him is wrong. Sex is wrong. That's been drilled into me since I was a small girl."The swoony, alpha movie star, Dawson, is used to getting what he wants, but this time, he wants more.(See more on the blog)Likes:*I love a Cinderella/Pretty Woman type of story.*A very addicting read.*Grey was believable as the innocent stripper.*Jasinda has a way of writing that really makes you feel as if you are there. I get a full movie in my head more than with most other authors.*The internal wars Grey had with herself seemed very real.*I ran the gamut of emotions throughout the book.*One of the longest, most intense, hottest, most romantic, erotic, sensual lovemaking scenes ever. (Enough time to grab BOB and finish! lol)Dislikes:*TURGID!!! CLEFT!!! Oh, Jasinda can write sensual scenes but her choice of words often kills the mood for me. The word cleft was way overused (have you ever referred to your vagina as a cleft?), and please...turgid??? (Please see my posts Wicked Book Girls Night: Dirty Words 1 & Dirty Words 2)*Besides the wording, the love scenes are great, but a little too over-the top mushy-lovey to me after a while. I got bored. Give me some hard, up against the wall, pull my hair sex...but that just may be my thing.Rating: 4.5 stars, 5 HeatStripped is not another Falling Into You. It doesn't totally gut you (though I did cry) but it also didn't completely and totally blow me away. I would put it at a very solid 4.25-4.5 (I'm rounding up), because I honestly went back and forth 3 times between 4 and 4.5. I think I am also comparing it a bit to Wounded and Falling Into You  by Jasinda which were EPIC books in my opinion.I highly recommend Stripped, especially if you enjoy the Pretty Woman/Cinderella story. What girl doesn't dream of the hottest Hollywood star coming to take them out of their miserable life?"There's something inside you, beyond that innocence. I see it. ..., but it's hidden, because you're miserable."See the unedited review at Ana's Attic.