Woah.

This was so perfect, even though some mightn't agree because it was too perfect, but still, I fell way too hard and way too fast for this book, just like these two.

I became addicted. Completely addicted.

“I love making dances and I love the sexiness of burlesque,” I admit and she smiles. “But I'm worried they won't see it that way, they'll think it's stripping or something degrading.”

College girl Claire majors in business but her true talents and dreams lie in dancing. Particularly burlesque. As it is a very provocative form of dancing, which she loves about it, it brings her some shame given most people form the idea of it being close to stripping. However, comparing, it is more of a respectable business and we see that Claire shines at it in her sexy, confident and extremely talented self. But even more so, she gets the chance to make the money she needs for her future, where she can prepare for the worst- when the time might come that the people she loves the most won't be there for her.

“I need the money, the security, because I might not have the blanket of support and love I have now forever. It could all end, and then I'll find myself at rock bottom, a strung-out stripper like my mother.
I can't let that happen.
I won't let that happen.”

Claire Anderson has quite a childhood story. Living in a caravan with her drugged-up stripper of a mother, she was always a ninth thought. She would fight off the men that came around for her mother, but Claire eventually gives in, craving the attention that is denied from her. When her mother is found in a ditch, Claire is set to stay with her uncle. After years of rebelling and struggle, we see her standing on her own two feet with the uncle and aunt who care for her unconditionally. She's come to the terms with her past for the most part, but for her, money is the only security she has to never let herself fall into a place like her mother was.

“I knew you were a game changer, Claire Anderson.”

Jude Sinclair. Typical manwhore with tattoos who is captain of the hockey team. Yup, yup and yup. He's all about hockey and the ladies, but also his family. He has brothers who all have a promising future like him getting into the NHL, a loving family for the most part, except for a douche of a father who rarely has shown them much support or love and is often away on business. Although Jude has disrespected a lot of girls, with Claire, he becomes a one-woman kind of guy.

When he first sees her, it's definitely something at first something. Yes the attraction, and even though he's always been up for the sex, Jude knows it's going to be more with Claire before anything ever happens.

“This is real, man, and it's scary as fuck, but I can't see myself without her.”

Oh. My. God. I was hooked on this.
I don't even know where to start.

“Closing my eyes, I laugh so hard that tears sting my eyes, and I know that I've fallen a little bit more for Jude motherfucking Sinclair.”

I guess, for me, I found a lot of aspects in this books refreshing- subtle but still made a difference to me.

“I love you so much, so hard, and it has been so fast that I feel it everywhere.”

“I'm pretty sure he doesn't want his girlfriend onstage.”

GAH okay, so Claire. Claire Anderson. Well for a person who had a crap childhood, is she broken? Hmm I would say not at all because she doesn't go on about it, not in the typical way.
It's 3 years later and she mentions having gone through therapy, briefly, like in one sentence and we get a glimpse into how it all happened, her struggle and her recovery.
And I like it because it was a romance story, not a story about two seriously broken people who helped save each other or anything even though what she went through was awful. But other than that, the only thing that really affects her is her need for the money. The illusion that she has to be independent is ultimately what tears her apart.

“You're trouble, Hey Jude.”

What else? Damn, she was confident, spunky, sexy and so cool! She was a really epic character, I felt she was so genuine with her cute but fiery personality. I really, seriously loved her! And then her relationship with Phillip and Reese, ohmygod. Love Love Love. So amazing. The fact that they are actually a pretty young couple themselves just added a whole other element as I felt that they were so cute with each other, protective like family but sweet as friends. It was all perfect, I really just fell for it all.

“He looks like the kind of guy who likes a challenge, so maybe, I'll give him one.”

And with Jude. She handles him so well. She knew to give him a chase for the hell of it, and then they fall so hard so fast and they try and slow it down but they just grow to love each other and it's so crazy how in love they are!

Since they get together so early in the book, we see so much of them being so damn perfect and cute and that was different because usually that might turn me off with it starting so early or it might seem kind of shallow but the way the author put this together, I could feel everything that they were going through and it seemed really right. The order of events was different too which was fun to read and how it all played out.

I really just loved how in love they were.

“I'm just so in love with you that the thought of losing you seriously fucks with me.”

Like, they were so in love. Ohmygod.

“I love Jude Sinclair with a fierceness that cannot be touched.
Yes, it's insane that it's only been two weeks, but this is different. We're different. We're special and I can't get enough of him.”

Okay so that quote right there, ^^^, YES TWO WEEKS but a.k.a. at 50% of the book, so a lot happens and really and truly, for me, it didn't feel rushed. Yes, might seem crazy to you, but during those two weeks... can't explain it. They just knew. Just. Knew.

“I don't want the money. I want to see Jude, and I want him to wrap his arms around me and tell me he loves me. That's my security, that's my haven...That's what I need.”

It changes them both as Claire realises that family will always be there for you and that the money isn't what she really needs.

For Jude, NOT that he turns all mushy...but he sort of does. In a seriously hot, but sweet way. He doesn't go all alpha either, it's more real than that but he is really open about his feelings and I suppose being with one girl alone really changes a lot about the way he thinks.

(SO MUCH I WANNA SAY. I apologize for this review being all over the place.)

“I'm drunk with love for this girl, and to be honest, I don't ever want to sober up.”

The writing was really great too. You know yourself when the writing just isn't working and it sucks, so I enjoyed this book immensely.

Perfect. They were perfect! It was bloody perfect.

“You're wrong; I am proud of you no matter what,” he promises.”

I'm actually going to go so far as to say that this book kind of moved me by the sweetness of these guys, I AM SO MUSHY RIGHT NOW UGH. Like, ohmygod help.

“They always say that love is a fantasy, but with this girl, it's a reality.”

and ohmygod PHILLIP. Yes we get a bit of the uncle's POV, who is, may I remind you, not much older than Claire herself. Like just about old enough to be her uncle, but GAH as well as being so darn good with Reese, I found him so hilarious and awesome in his protectiveness over Claire with Jude. It was too good. Too. Good.

“Standing in the face-off circle with the smug little bastard who has already scored on us tonight, I glare, waiting for the puck to drop.”

Uncle Phillip, yours truly ^^

So yeah, at this stage I'm enjoying this review too much and I don't want to end it because then they're over for me and yeah...Damn.

Jude and Claire will be staying with me for a long while <3