Bared to You
Sylvia Day
388 Pages
Berkley Trade, June 2012
Gideon
Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness …
He was
beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never
been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even
knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those
cracks in me so easily …
Gideon
knew. He had demons of his own. And
we would become mirrors that reflected each other’s most private wounds … and
desires. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the
torment of our pasts didn’t tear us apart.
I got curious about Bared to You once I saw the sequel,
Reflected in You, in Bahasa Indonesia translation placed in the stand with a
little sticker, ‘for adult only’. Why they should put it up something like
that? What kind of story that the book tells? What differentiate it with other
adult romance books? I have to read it to find out! *grin*
Bared to You tells a story about Eva Tramell and
her new job in New York. A day before officially working, Eva visits the
building. She happens to she bumped into a super looking good man. He’s Gideon
Cross, a billionaire and the owner of the building. Gideon wants to do some
dirty thing with Eva’s body and asks it directly. Eva declines it because she
thinks that she has to know someone she’s sleeping with. Then they make an arrangement
but they can’t help it and fall in love with each other. When they relationship
became a public known, Eva tells Gideon about her haunting past. Because she does
want keeping any secret and knows that Gideon has one too.
"I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you."
So, Bared to You is erotica fiction! And I can’t help myself to compare
it to Fifty Shades of Grey. There are similarities and differences. The leading
men, Christian Grey and Gideon Cross, like to control things around them, have
a similar taste of the way they enjoy sexy time, dark past and look at their
initial name! The difference is Gideon is more eager to work things out with
Eva. While the leading ladies, Anastasia Stelle and Eva Tramell, are not so
identical. They both can drive their men crazy but Eva know what she likes,
especially sexy time, tend to control things too, easily jealous, has a dark
past but she fights it. Despite all of that, the story is obviously different
and this one is written better. So let’s focus on this one.
Because they both have unpleasant
pasts, the relationship between Eva and Gideon are very tense. They fight a lot
and make up a lot too in course of less than two weeks. I see that they use
sexual intercourse as a cure, not only for their soul but also to open up about
themselves. I didn’t know that. It’s kinda romantic, don’t you think? But the
amount of it makes me tired. And I wonder why the Dominant & Submissive
thing is not so much in this one? Luckily, an interesting thing (I won’t spoil
it ;p) comes near the end of the novel and maybe it become the main plot in the
next novel. Am I interested to find it
out in the sequel? Yeah, of course but I am not so excited.
At last, the complicated couple in Bared to You is interesting to follow,
especially when it’s beautifully written. I’m curious how they fights their pasts and
I’m eager to see the Dominant & Submissive thing working out in them too.
Any Fifty Shades of Grey’s fan understand and surely gonna love it ;p
2 comment(s)
yeah... i have the same thought... not really want to read the second book, but i've intrigued then sure i read when my friend who's recommended the first book lent me... then there's the third book and the fourth... and maybe so on... [udah kaya' sinetron :D ]
ReplyDeletei think, they're nice as an intermezzo... and according to me... this series are so much better compared to FSoG... :D
well, at the first, there is no thought to leave a comment in this post, because you know, the english makes me feel so lazy to read it, but soon after I saw a phrase "for adult only", it makes me curious (well, dirty mind of me ._. don't mind it -_-)
ReplyDeleteafter I read the review, it makes me more curious. I never read this book or the sequel or the prequel. but the way you review it, it makes me know how interesting this book is.
I'm not a big fan of romance novel but I think this novel will give me another experience in reading romance.
all over, I like the review ;) even though it's not really clear and too short, but the main story is presented very well ;)
Thanks for leave your comment :D