In the wake of the Fifty Shades phenomenon, it is unsurprising to see a surge in erotica hitting our bookshelves. Both Eve and Gideon are damaged, having suffered tremendous traumas during their respective youths, but when they start a passionate love affair, their pasts come flooding back as the walls they have each spent years putting up come crashing down around them. While Eve is excited to start a new job in Manhattan, she is not prepared for what happens when she encounters the powerful and hideously wealthy Gideon Cross. Maybe the next in the series will delve into their problems and make them a more steady, complete couple.This post was originally published at and is now at.

Overall a decent read, and it had a lot of promise. Soo I will not analyze why I disliked parts of this book, because in a circumspect thought process, I was thinking about a totally different series and how I wish the next novel in THAT series was out so I could be reading that. I left this story, read a HANDS DOWN five star book, and I truly believe it made this less of a 4 or 5 star read for me. I can’t put a finger on why this wasn’t five stars, because when I first started reading I was hands down-“Oh this is better than Fifty Shades,” and “This is definitely 5 stars.”. I DID interrupt the story to read another book, so this in turn did interrupt the proceedings of the novel.

I really don’t know why I became more disappointed toward the ending, and this is the part where I can’t be totally fair. So to the point: I did not mind the way Day ended up making the Dom/Sub relationship. I know when people start this book they like that aspect of erotica, but I guess that is the one thing about Fifty Shades I would liked there to have been less of. So when Gideon eventually led into the “you’re submissive…”, I had to roll my eyes-maybe because I thought it wasn’t going to happen because most of the book was over when it did happen.

I know, I know, when I started the book I expected it to be that way and when it wasn’t I really enjoyed it. I liked that Day didn’t make it totally BDSM. I didn’t even mind Magdelene, since she wasn’t such a beyotch near the ending. Like I mentioned before, I did like the characters a lot. I actually was surprised at how interesting and well-written it was at first, and I really liked Gideona and Eva.īut some things bothered me the more I kept reading, but I will stay with the positives first: I do think it says something that I could so easily leave this book, though. For one: I stopped in the middle of this book to start another book I REALLY wanted to read and could not wait to start.so that’s not really giving this book a fair trial. There are a lot of factors that influenced my rating.

Bared to You by Sylvia Day