Review: What happens when the masks come off?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
Maddox was the All-American kid growing up. He had perfect nuclear family. He excelled at football. His life was the stuff of dreams. He was the boy to be envied...until he kept a secret that cost more than he can repay.Bee has her reasons for keeping people away. She's had an experience that left a lasting deep-seated fear in her. But it's a fear she can't express to anyone. See, what happened to Bee wasn't necessarily abusive. She had a great childhood...until it all came crashing down.Maddox meets a Bee in a bar. They agree to let each other fill the temporary sexual desire. Neither of them want complications, and commitment is the furthest thing from their minds. A no strings attached in a hotel room with a stranger sounds like a good idea, right? And it is...until Maddox walks into Bee's tattoo shop to ask for a job.What happens when you put two characters, whose sexual tension is so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw, together day after day? They become really grouchy. And for Bee and Maddox, who are already mad at the world, it's like lighting a slow burning fuse to a keg of dynamite. Boy is the explosion worth watching.Bee and Maddox are such jerks, but they're likable jerks. Watching them fight their attraction to each other was alternatingly funny and frustrating. Both of them crave the other for more than a physical connection, but neither of them wants to admit it. It's not until they realize the things that annoy them about the each other are the same things holding them back from being happy that things change for these two.Masquerade is the story of what happens when two people take the mask that they present to the world off and let someone see who they truly are. It's a sweet, touching story about the healing power of finding love with someone who understands you.