Review: Complete Trainwreck and that's saying it nicely
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
This may come off as a full fledge rant but Grey Amundson was a complete train wreck. Currently I can’t find one positive thing about her. The constant crying and vomiting #ICan’t. TBH I surprised that she was able to survive as long as she has. The chick never ate and when she did it was granola bars or something like that not to mention I swear she threw up everyday. I wish she had at least one friend to take the annoyance from her existence. I mean who goes off to school lives in a dorm and makes zero friends.As a young girl Grey had big dreams of being a dancer and a career in film but of which her preacher daddy wanted no parts or pieces with. In his mind everything lead to sin. Which on some level I get, but of course his unwillingness to compromise caused a major rift between them. After tragedy hit their family Grey did the only thing she could think to do. She packed her bags and hopped a plane to LA to pursue her dreams.No friends or family to turn to Grey falls onto hards times causing her to make a difficult choice to dance while taking her clothes off. While I’m sure with the upbringing she had it was very difficult to do, Grey made it super painful. Crying and throwing up every night after dancing. Come on. Shocker she didn’t turn to drugsStripped did not get part ways interesting for me until Dawson Keller made an appearance and his presence honestly didn’t wow me. While in VIP with his friends he apparently sees something in Grey and just had to have. One thing he was right about was the fact that she did not belong there.As fate would have it Grey and Dawson paths crossed again when she’s presented an opportunity to be his assistance while interning for an upcoming film he’s working on. Immediately there’s this reconnect he gives her his Rover to drive and making all these grand gestures it all seem rushed and unrealistic in my mind.At some point I couldn’t take the chase game between theses two any longer which lead me to start skimming just to get this over. I’m not sure if Ms. Wilder felt the same way about where things were going because the ending was all over the place and rushed. Immediately after I finished the last page of Stripped I gave my hubby my full rant there was hand gestures, eye rolls, I’m I said What the Flag many many times. So while the blurb and cover definitely pulled me in the story line just didn’t do it for me and that’s putting it nicely.