Review: Unstoppable..... I. Got. This.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden" ~ Phaedrus...... a bit too deep? O.K., let's make it a bit more fun! Have you ever gotten one of those variety boxes of chocolates? You know, the ones where they all pretty much look the same, but they are filled with a variety of fillings... & they come with that oh so handy little pamphlet ,to let you know which is which...I emphasized the word little, because...imagine that handy pamphlet gets LOST!!! SHOCK HORROR! It's happened to me before, your hand hovers over the chocolates, carefully weighing up which is the most likely to be the caramel centre... you take the plunge & grab the scrumptious square of chocolate decadence, pop it into your mouth, savour that first hint of chocolate melty goodness...your teeth bite into it, in anticipation of the sweet, caramel delight &.... gaaaahhhh!!!! What the Hell!!!! perfumey, jelly-like, sickly sweet turkish delight invades your taste buds & knocks you for six!!!!Right, at this point you are thinking "What the Hell is she going on about?"... trust me, I have a valid point her ;) Ripp, the MC, is 230lbs of tall, bald headed, muscular, tattooed, pierced, brutish testosterone! He bare-knuckle fights! He drives a red 1969 Chevelle SS & rides a motorbike....& he LOVES sex! Basically a walking hunk of "Bad Boy" testosterone!Labelled. Unstoppable. Bad Boy. Simple.The problem is, Ripp... or Michael Allen Ripton... is not so cut and dried, and that is what takes the story from one level to a completely different one! He is more complex... he has values, humour, fears, vulnerability... The scenes with his family were real, there were laugh out loud moments, and when he meets Vee, he allows her to see beyond his carefully constructed image at the man inside, a man willing to change for the right woman..."I think we all have the capacity to change; we just have to want to do it. It's developing the want that is difficult. We become stuck in the routines, so comfortable, so unwilling to take the risk - we just don't see the value in change. Either that or we're just plain uncomfortable with what the change might offer."It turns out Ripp is unstoppable in this respect too! It takes a strong woman though, and I LOVE that about Vee! She is beautiful, but she's also intelligent, a defense lawyer, fearless and unprejudiced... she REALLY sees Ripp... "It was satisfying to get to know a man that was his own person, and didn't comply with what society expected him to be or become."Unstoppable was an unstoppable read for me, it was real, HOT. funny, sexy, HOT, surprising, HOT (Did I say that already?) and romantic, in an unconventional way...Look beyond the surface..."I. Got. This"Unstoppable.