Review: Stripped Review
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
An ARC was provided for an honest review.What's a girl to do???  A preacher daddy who never really loved her like a father should and an amazing mother who passes away too soon.  Grey and her father never saw eye to eye and she was kept sheltered from the world.  Grey has an amazing talent as a dancer and she has to practically beg him to let her take classes.  Their world falls apart when her mom dies and Grey packs up and leaves, against her fathers wishes, and she heads to USC to pursue her new found love - the film industry.  (I was confused at this point in the book because the timeline seemed to be off, I'm not quite sure what happened.)  Two years into her college career and she has no friends, no life, and now no money.  I thought for sure she would call her father for help but NO....she is too proud and is determined to do this on her own.  Grey begins searching for a job and finds nothing (not even a fast food restaurant, really?) so back to my question...what's a girl to do???  Strip, that's what!  Desperation isn't even the right word.  This is the last thing that the virgin daughter of a preacher wants to do yet she does it....getting physically sick before and after each shift.  She is also doing a film internship amidst all of this...talk about a full load.Then we meet Dawson Kellor....Hollywood's schmexy leading man and the man who has rented out the strip club where Grey works.  He is intense and good lord the things he says and does."Dawson's touch is hypnotism made flesh.  I can't resist it.  I don't know what's happening to me, but it's terrifying me."After the awkward night in the VIP room Grey returns to her regularly scheduled program of school and her internship.  Oh it's not going to be that easy though....guess who she is assigned to assist during filming, none other than Dawson Kellor!  I am not one for enjoying coincidences but this made me giggle....of course this is where the story is going!  If I said that Dawson was intense before, it gets better.  He follows Grey when she leaves, hauls her back to her dorm, feeds her (she is a starving student after all) and then he gives her his car.  I must say that I was a little overwhelmed by him and then he says"You know what else?  I'm a guy.  I pee and miss the toilet.  I take sh*ts.  I eat cheeseburgers.  I watch baseball and drink beer."I can't say that he's "just a guy" but oooooooohhhhh he seems to have it all.The relationship between Grey and Dawson builds quickly, she tries to resist and isn't any good at it.  He consumes every part of her life and works himself into it whether she wants him to or not.  Once he gives her what she needs  she is a goner."And now I'll never return from this place, for I know the taste of temptation.  I've sinned; I've fallen."Grey is scared and she keeps running but Dawson keeps following her and tearing down her walls.  The rest of the book takes jumps forward and I felt like we missed out on some of their developing relationship and how they got to be at a certain point.  I would have liked to seen more of the in between stuff from the blossoming of the relationship to where the book ended.  I will say this....holy schmexy steamy hotness!  Jasinda is quite descriptive is this book and I approve  You know it must be good because..."I walk to the bathroom, although hobble is a more appropriate word.  My privates throb, ache, and twinge.  My thighs tremble and hurt.  Everything down there aches, but the memory of how that ache came about is sugar-sweet."