Review: There's something missing...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2012
Stripped Bear has great love scenes but the development of the story and its conflict are short, simple and juvenile.  At times, the story reads like a poor man's suburbian soap opera.  Nosey neighbors and jealous pack females make for weak villains.  Their ability to shake Ayana's confidence makes her seem weak.Reece is a somewhat interesting protagonist.  He's kind, suave, intuitive, and tries to seduce Ayana slowly and sweetly.  However, his foil, Blaine, is dull.  He's handsome and brusque, he has dark hair, he's eager to bed Ayana, but that's about it.  Reece explains most of his feelings for him.  The author doesn't demonstrate that Blaine is rugged and tough by writing about his actions; she just lists some characteristics and gives Blaine very little dialogue.  It's quite possible Blaine spoke more to Reece than Ayana throughout this book.Writing a good menage is difficult.  Ayana's clumsy proclamations of love to both men and Blaine's cookie cutter character are testaments to that fact.  Although the more passionate excerpts in the story are very enjoyable, they do not warrant a purchase of the sequel.