Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 I tend to do a lot of reading on business trips because there's not much else to do once the work day is done. In fact my boss actually sells me on trips-like to Alabama in fucking July-by saying "Hey, think of all the reading you'll get done!" So I saved Opening Up and Falling Under by Lauren Dane for this trip and boy-howdy am I happy I did. 
 First of all, let's take a moment to appreciate how gorgeous the cover of Opening Up is. I'd hang that on my wall. I really would. But the contents of the book are just as lovely. 
 There isn't a ton of romantic conflict in this book, to be honest. That's why I gave it an A- rather than an A. Most of the conflict is driven from Asa making assumptions about PJ and then acting on them. Some of that is driven out of a need to protect her, and some of it is just Asa having his head up his ass. There was really no black moment, but just a serious of events that more or less read like a normal couple navigating the beginning of a relationship. 
 One thing I really liked was that Asa respects PJ immensely. Even in the beginning, when they are in a pin up calendar photo shoot together-and of course they are-and Asa has a raging boner, he's trying not to be a douche about it. 
 And here's the thing: regardless of whatever sketchily written BDSM erotica you've read might tell you (cough, cough) respect is sexy. When PJ doesn't like something in bed-like the cane-Asa respects her and doesn't do that again or stops. In fact, he finds a softer, leather cane online that they both like. When she says no to anal sex, he just says okay, respects her boundary, and moves on. 
 Still this book was incredibly sexy and often very funny. It made me duck out on the coworker I was traveling with: "I'd love to go to TGI Fridays with you, but PJ and Asa have a new leather cane they've been dying to try out and also I need to know how his weenus piercing feels without a condom, so I'm gonna just head up to my room, 'kay, thanks." 
 - Elyse