Down and Dirty

by G.A. Hauser

UCLA art history professor Jean DuLac enjoyed his life. He was happy with his career and traveling the world searching for masterpieces to photograph first hand for his students.When Jean decides to use one of his own art designs for a tattoo, he meets tattoo shop owner, Harry Callahan. Jean finds out the shop is called, Down and Dirty Harry's Tattoos for a reason.Harry Callahan loves his work. His reputation for being the best tattoo artist in LA is well earned. Harry and his older brother 'Clyde' have a lot in common. Clyde is an erotic dancer by night, firefighter by day, but he and Clyde share the same taste in men...as well as the men themselves.The night Jean decides to get his skin inked, he meets Harry and can't help but be smitten with a man as big, brawny, and handsome as 'Dirty' Harry. Jean has no idea the dark delights he is in for Friday night after class.What Jean discovers is how intense being the object of two men's desires can be and how pleasure with the Callahan brothers, means getting Down and Dirty.

Genres: BDSM, M M Romance, Menage, M M M, Contemporary, Erotica, LGBT

259 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 18, 2011

About the author

About the Author Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over eighty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction. GA is also the Executive Producer for her first feature film, CAPITAL GAMES. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com G.A. has won awards from All Romance eBooks for Best Author 2010, 2009, Best Novel 2008, Mile High, and Best Author 2008, Best Novel 2007, Secrets and Misdemeanors, Best Author 2007.

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Reviews

[Cindi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jean DuLac is an art history professor at UCLA. He goes to Down and Dirty Harry's Tattoos to get a tattoo of one of his own designs. Jean grew up in a home where he was expected to be perfect and nothing, even teaching at a top university, has ever been good enough for his family. He's a little shy and reserved. His art has gone on the back burner with the exception of random designs like the one he will have tattoo'd.

Down and Dirty Harry's is called that for a reason and that reason is the owner, Harry. Within minutes of Jean meeting Harry who he falls instantly in lust with, he is jacking off in front of the guy. Shy? Uh no. I don't think so. I think the author would have been better off leaving off the part about him being reserved because he's not reserved in any way at all. One jack off session and a tattoo later, Jean is not only having sex with Harry but Harry's adopted brother Clyde gets in on the action. This turns into more sex with Harry and Clyde and another employee Sam is brought into the mix as well. Jean falls in love with Harry...... fast. As in within 24 hours fast and he uses the words. Hmm.. okay.

Clyde is a 39 year old porn star wanna be. He is also a volunteer firefighter by day and an exotic dancer by night. He is ten years older than Harry but he and Harry have had a sexual relationship literally since Harry was 14 years old. Yes, I said 14. This starts after Harry has a bad relationship with a coach who is married with children. So we've established that Harry had a fucked up sexual relationship with a coach when he was underage and his pervy older adult brother takes advantage of this. Clyde does rescue Harry in a way but then he, at 24, takes advantage of Harry and starts a sexual relationship with him. This sexual relationship has continued for fifteen years with the men often bringing in a 3rd and sometimes even a 4th. The relationship between Harry and Clyde is warped to say the least.

This book is a sex fest. I knew this going in so I can't hold that against it and I wouldn't had the sex been good sex. It was all the same thing... over and over ... until toward the end. Jean is tied up and blindfolded. He goes back and forth between sucking Clyde and Sam while Harry penetrates him. With the exception of one time (that I can recall) it is the same thing with the same guys over and over. There is no variation.

I had so many issues with this book and they are as follows:

- There is supposed to be some type of connection between Harry and Jean but I personally never felt it.

- A big deal is made over the hole, the basement of the tattoo shop that is really a BDSM playroom. Clyde wants to take Jean down to the hole but Harry freaks out and refuses initially. Sam gets all scared when it's mentioned that Clyde wants Jean down there. So I'm sitting here thinking that the hole must really be bad, right? Uh, no. It had the typical BDSM items and it had a table with stirrups. Once Jean consents to going in there I was expecting something really hardcore after all the build-up. Instead what I got was the exact same thing I had been seeing up to this point only Jean was on a table. Jean is tied up and blindfolded, he blows two guys and he's fucked by Harry. So??? What was the big deal about the big, bad room? Also, Jean is taken down there the first time just to get the lay of the land, so to speak. He goes down there with Harry, Clyde and Sam. They are all going up the stairs and Jean looks back and Harry is taking Clyde from behind. I have no idea what the significance of that was but the men made a big deal out of it for some reason. One, they sure got those pants down pretty damn quick and there couldn't have been any prep, and two, Harry made a big deal about not talking about what had just occurred like it was as a result of some major thing.

- I mentioned Clyde. Quite a bit is mentioned about him wanting to go into the porn business. He's 39. A little late for that I'm thinking. A lot is also mentioned about him being a volunteer firefighter and how he is not out with the other firefighters. There is even one instance where he is in a bar with all of these guys who are straight and most with wives and children. I don't understand why the bar thing was even in the book. It made no sense to the story at all.

- Clyde has a sick obsession with Harry and has since Harry was 14 and he was 24. When Harry brings Jean into their bed (and playroom) everything goes well at first. All the men are having a good time and all is fine. Then Harry starts to get real feelings for Jean and Clyde goes a bit crazy and his entire personality changes. He gets possessive and says hurtful things to Harry and makes threats to Jean. Harry has finally told Jean that he loves him and it is decided that the threesomes and foursomes are over. Harry is adamant about this. So what happens later? Jean is at the tattoo shop waiting for Harry to get finished with a customer. This is after Clyde had sent Jean a threatening text message. Clyde walks in and is threatening toward Jean and Jean yells out his safe word for the first time ever. Harry comes rushing in and the reader would think it would be to protect Jean from his psychotic brother right? Wrong. Not even close. He leans in and kisses Clyde and turns around and walks back to his customer leaving a stunned Jean. What the hell???????? Then later Harry, Jean, Clyde and Sam go into "the hole" and they all have sex and it ends with Clyde glaring and smirking at Jean as if he won. That is literally the end. Nothing is resolved and none of it made any sense to me at all.

- The BDSM is mild at best. I don't claim to be an expert on the lifestyle but I have read some really good books about BDSM and this is not one of them. The extent of it in this book is Jean getting tied up and blindfolded, a couple of sex toys are used and he gets spanked once.


This book started out hot and sexy and then it went downhill fast. I did not like any of the characters except Sam. Harry is a pushover when it comes to Clyde. Clyde is obsessive and psychotic on top of the fact that he started having sex with Harry when he was a 14 year old child. Jean is a wimp who doesn't stand up for what he wants and stays with Harry even after Harry makes it clear that Clyde will always be a part of their lives and in their bed. This, even after Clyde had threatened Jean and had said horrible things to Harry.

I kept thinking that everything would come together in the end. It had to right? Apparently not. This ended with nothing resolved at all. Maybe Clyde has his own story and this is continued. If so I am not aware of it as it is not marked as part of a series. In honesty I am not willing to look at blurbs of all this author's books to find out. I don't care enough. I'm thinking I won't be in a hurry to jump back into this author's work. I hate that because this book had such potential early on.

[Beck · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 rounded up to 3

I've read this book twice now. Not because I love it, but because I couldn't work out why I found this story so disturbing.

After the second read, I think I've narrowed down what it is I didn't like in this book...

1. Jean is initially portrayed as an upstanding, conservative professor. Within seconds of meeting Harry, he masturbates in a fairly public setting. This didn't ring true.

2. Straight-laced Jean dives head-first into bondage & ménage within an hour of meeting Harry. Again incongruous behaviour for his character.

3. The incest is confronting but Jean just shrugs it off with minimal contemplation? Seriously? That wouldn't make you stop & ponder WTF you're getting involved in, for longer than 5 minutes?

4. Jean uses his safe-word (stupidly the same as his nickname for Harry) accidentally during 2 scenes & it is ignored both times. Argh

5. Insta love. Just drives me mad. It rarely works & I found it difficult to stomach in this ménage.

6. The sex, whilst hot was distressingly monotonous. It was almost formulaic. Man A inserts dangley bits in Jean's mouth; Man B inserts dildo in Jean's bottom; Man C fits in where-ever. The bondage was very similar for each scene too ... oh, & don't forget the silence & blindfold *yawn*

7. The whole 'Clyde goes troppo' at the end of the book just came out of left field. Considering the fact that Clyde was (initially) the driving force of the relationship it just seemed bizarre that he has hissy fits when Jean actually wants the relationship he's been trying to encourage.

8. So, by the end of the book Jean & Harry decide to have a relationship sans Clyde because of his anger, aggression & threats; then the very next day end up having another sexual romp with him despite his obvious distrust/dislike of Jean ... WTF?!

Overall, I was disappointed with this book. It's just had too many consistency issues to allow me to relax & enjoy the story.

[Thieryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are brothers in arms, brothers in law, Blues brothers, long lost brothers, and bros. And then there are step-brothers who have the hots for one another, and delight in sharing their bed with unsuspecting males who usually run off in the middle of the night, thinking they bit off more than they can chew.

Dirty Harry has nothing on Callahan junior, a tattoo artist who tops everyone he sets his eyes on, including his senior brother, wannabe porn-star Clyde the Longest. Their oh-so-deliciously sinful relationship gets all rattled up when Jean, a timid college art professor, decides to get a small tattoo on his crotch area. The three of them embark on a world of ink and lube, where passions soar, and old wounds run deep. And us poor readers are left staring blindly at the wall, wondering where we should get our own tattoo (and tattoo artist).

Damn this was a hot read. I loved every minute of it. From Harry's cold shoulder approach, to Jean's uncertainty, to Clyde's tantrums, to Sam's laid back guest star approach. I also admit I got scared towards the end, imagining all sorts of pretty bloodied up scenarios folding in the last pages. This was a very intense second half of a book there, Ms. Hauser. Got me all fired up!

However, there is only one thing I wished I could have enjoyed a bit more in this read: the BDSM aspect. I mean, what's the point in having your own dungeon set up if you don't fully use it? Or even worse, advertising a cock plug and then leaving it unused to rust in the corner? Not fair, I say ;)

I really hope this book will turn into a series. Jean's willing, deeply submissive side is worth exploring, and I am so curious to see what, if anything, will happen between Clyde and Sam. Not to mention, foursomes between this group are always tantalising to read!

And for all you visual folk, here's Harry and Jean in action:

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

All the elements are here to make for an erotic feast. An ongoing 3 way (and 4 way at times), with all rough tops and only one sweet, bottom boy, bondage galore, interesting character backgrounds, great tattoo parlor setting, a blossoming romance, and all the kinks I’ve always longed to see woven into one steamy read are here together…but for any number of reasons, they fall flat. Yes, damn it, there’s an unexpected ‘switch’ that happens about three quarters of the way through that defeats anything that may have gone before, at least for me it did, hater of anything even remotely switchy. (I happen to like my fantasies pure.) But there are other disappointments here as well, mainly due to the author’s unwillingness to explore (understand?) what is erotic about a BDSM scene, especially given the circumstances. It is insisted, for instance, that one character has a ‘safe word’ for only the mildest form of bondage play (i.e. blindfolded with one wrist handcuffed to a bed while being penetrated and then immediately released upon his orgasm). Without giving too much else away, I’d recommend this book to anyone who likes their BDSM tame because it does have some other promising elements. I give it 3 stars because of those elements but especially because the story concerns 2-3 tops and one bottom, a combination I haven’t seen explored in any other book of this kind. My hat’s off to her for making a stab at it, at least, but I was left frustrated because it comes so close yet doesn't deliver.

[Vivian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leave reality at the door.

Sweet mercy! This is a sexy, hot mess of fantastical proportions. Two over-endowed alpha males play nasty with a submissive university professor. Add in a friend, some public play and all kinds of toys to the mix and Jean is desperately trying to keep perspective on the brother tag team that's rocking his world.

Some kinky fun, taboo acts well sort of since one brother's adopted, but no one knows, and a ride on the wild side of LA is a bit breathtaking. I guess my one gripe is the resolution between the two brothers. There was a lot not said or addressed between Harry and Clyde that I really wanted to see thus the rating.

[Silkeeeeeereads · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book's title sums it up. In typical Hauser style DIRTY. Hot, Dirty, BDSM, Ménage with a small amount of romance thrown in for good measure between two unlikely men. A professor and a tattoo artist. This book does bring to light some people for future books.

If you're looking for something with a lot of romance and a little sex, this isn't it. If you seek something almost too hot to hold with some romance and angst thrown in as a side bar, you found it.

Since I love a lot of Hauser's hot love scenes, I loved this one for the sex.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy hell!
Hot! Hot! Hot!
This author is fast becoming one of my favorite authors.
A story of a ménage and sometimes foursome hot and heavily into BDSM. A hint of incest and also for once a ménage which isn't always ok. Jealously between the men and the difficult question of what happens when it's no longer about sex but 2 of them fall in love.
I would like a sequel to this, to see how everything ends up and whether they are able to keep their threesome.
I would recommend this to anybody who loves MMM, BDSM , lots of kinky hot sex or just a damn good story.

[Nile Princess · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5*...I think. :-)

Jean, a college professor, walks into Down and Dirty to get a self-designed tattoo done and literally gets a hard on for Harry, the tattoo artist. But Harry doesn't play alone. He and his brother, Clyde, like to share and at times, Sam, a fellow employee gets in on the action. This throws Jean headfirst into a world he's only dared explore in his dreams. A natural sub, Jean enjoys pleasing the two brothers, but he is more drawn to Harry. The problem though, is that Harry is very reserved and emotionally unavailable, making Jean wonder whether he's even interested. It's Clyde who is open and friendly and helps Jean to understand Harry and Harry's feelings for Jean. As things heat up between Harry and Jean, Clyde tries to ignore their growing attraction to each other to no avail. When they have sex without him, things come to a head and Clyde tries to introduce Jean to 'the hole', their hardcore BDSM room. Jean panics, Harry steps in to protect his man and things unravel from there. WARNING: There is brocest here, though...well, you'll have to read it.

I always say that when reading G.A. Hauser you have to make certain concessions. Know that there will be insta-love. The men will, lamely, talk to themselves out loud while alone. They will cry alot. They will be slightly neurotic. The sex scenes won't win any awards, but they'll be ok. You will roll your eyes at some point and the ending is anybody's game.

That said, I really enjoyed parts of this book. I did initially like the dynamic among the three, and the fact that Jean was a college professor while Harry was a hardcore biker. I was happy until about 80% when the author chose to assassinate Clyde's character and totally confuse me with the ending....probably like I just confused you with this review!

Just know:
Harry & Clyde - brothers
Harry/Jean/Clyde - threesome, but
Harry/Jean - really like each other

My main issue was......SPOILERS AHEAD!

I didn't get the ending with the brothers. I wasn't the only one. Jean was confused too! He just decided to 'leave the discussion for another time'.

When Clyde got rough with Jean at the end and he had to safe-word, Harry just smiled and then pecked Clyde on the lips as he walked out. Wahh? He's body slammed him for less. Then, all three (four) proceed to have sex...uh ok. Harry made a big deal about staking his claim re Jean, laying down the law that there would be no more threesomes, but when Jean asked him if it was just going to be the two of them from now on (sans Clyde) he couldn't answer. Huh? I guess it was supposed to show some lingering feelings on Harry's part, but that doesn't jive with his thoughts throughout the book that he didn't love Clyde in the all consuming way that Clyde loved him. He just had sex with him 'to control him??' Really?? I wanted to jump kick Harry in the throat! Ungrateful bastid.

Now, YES, I know what people will say. Clyde was manipulative. Yes, he was. Yes, he used fear and the whole failed first relationship to keep Harry close to him, but it was clear that he was broken and hurt too and thought only Harry could love him. I understand where the author wanted to go with the characters, but I think the internal monologue didn't match the outcome. The only way she can really fix this, imo, is to write a Clyde/Sam or Clyde/OC with some lingering jealousy on Harry's part and then have the brothers really resolve their issues.

Hey, but at least she didn't go with some hokey, corny ending so there's that. If G.A does Clyde's story, I'll read it because she annoyed me with where she took his character....but then I'm done with her...i mean it this time...really... lol

[Elisa Rolle]

Again I had the feeling that G.A. Hauser “matured” with this novel, or maybe she decided that she doesn’t care of what people think romance should be and she wrote what she likes. Jean is a modern Alice in the Wonderland who falls into a hole, figuratively speaking but also for real; when he enters D&D’s tattoo shop, what he thinks he wants is a small tattoo in a place no one will see, especially now that Jean is single and without prospect partners around; what he finds are two hot men plus one to spare who are more than ready to show Jean a completely different world.

Harry, the shop owner, is 29 years old, very handsome and a little brooding; he had a very bad experience in the past and now he is very careful to give his heart. Clyde, Harry’s adoptive brother, his 39 years old, wanna-be porn star, and as open as Harry is closed; Clyde is very possessive of Harry and not in a brotherly way, and where I know I shouldn’t like his character, he is yes possessive but also obsessive, I think he is the more fragile of the two. Clyde helped Harry when he was down, but at the time Harry was only a teenager, now instead he is a grown man, and he grew stronger and steadier than Clyde. The spare guy is Sam, who joins Clyde and Harry when they want to play, and the new play thing is Jean.

There is a lot of sex, down and dirty sex, a little on the BDSM side, but mostly for the fun not as life choice. Jean at first has this idea of romance, made of courtship and bed of roses, and instead he finds immediate sex and satisfaction and a dungeon to play… the guy is fast to change is idea and to understand that this is his chance and he hasn’t to let it go. Champagne and roses can wait, in the meantime he will enjoy the immediate gratification.

The story is more complex than the sex, the one between Harry and Jean is the easier relationship, what gives complexity to the plot is the bond between Harry and Clyde, made of love and hate, tenderness and irritation. It’s strange since it’s Clyde that pushes Harry to let it go with Jean, but then he is the first to try to stop him when things get serious, like he wasn’t expecting for Harry to follow his push.

G.A. Hauser are not romance for all, but if you manage to enter her world made of real gay men, every novel is a discovery.

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[Suburbancowgirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

About 1/4 the way through the book, I thought that this would be a clear 5* and favorite. It had all the makings of my favorite, illusive type of book - good writing, decent plot, and a tone of filthy, kinky man on man (on man on man) action. But, as I kept reading, I started to get a little more disappointed with each chapter.

Don't get me wrong. I still gave it a solid 4*. I wish the author would have varied the sex a little. It all seemed repetitive after awhile. It was soooo hot the first few times, but got boring to read the same thing later. Also, it seemed the book had things that were not necessary and left out some things that were. Why spend a page or so explaining how the guy went through the drive-through to get some coffee? Why have the scene with the 2 GLBT students giving Jean a flyer? There were a lot of these little things that had no point to the story. After a bunch of them, it got really annoying.

As for what the book is missing - about 40 more pages to tie everything up? What happened with Jean's career? Did things really get worked out with Clyde? And what about Clyde's aspiring career? Either put a shiny bow on it or a brown paper bag of angst. Just conclude it!

Maybe I am being overly harsh because I had such high expectations. I guess I will keep searching for my illusive good writing/plot & tons of kinky sex books that I love so much. Sigh.

[Kk · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting and highly sexual.

Opens an thought provoking aside about the conventional mores of incest. Harry and Clyde are adopted brothers who both share each other and other men. The fact they are adopted, ie no blood tie involved, was the only reason I read the book.

***Thanks to Game of Thrones, people shouldn't throw stones about incest because it was rampant in that show.***

There are lots of grammatical errors that just blew my mind. Bad spelling rounded it out a fractured plot. The ending was ridiculous and went no where. No resolution really.

[Madzi · Rating 1 out of 5]

There was few things that didn’t go well with me in this book but the ending...how can you say you go exclusively in relationships and then you go and kiss another guy or let other guy kiss your partner...and not to mention that nothing was resolved at the end and I had more questions then answers and I hate books like that :(

[Ed Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this until the end. The book was really fun for me but to read and it just seemed to end.

[Tyra Berger · Rating 5 out of 5]

G.A. Hauser writes damn good stories! I really don't know any other way to put it. And the anal retentive person in mean LOVES that she has a guide book that shows how all of her character's connect and overlap. This weeks theme may not be for everyone but I have found with my ever expanding TBR list to never say I would never read a book like that because I would have missed out on some really fabulous stories. If this theme does make you a little nervous that's OK check out some of our other posts because I promise you will find something that will interest you. And remember Safe, Sane and Consensual.

When I finished this book I felt emotionally drained. When an author can pull you so far into a story that in just a few hundred pages you feel like you have lived and felt everything that the characters have, you know it's good.

When we first meet Harry he comes across as this bad-ass tattoo guy full of confidence and completely secure. He owns three successful shops he is drop dead gorgeous who would ever guess that he has cut himself off emotionally for so long that he doesn't know how to connect past a sexual relationship. He learned at an early age that he couldn't trust people to stay in his life. Everyone that is except Clyde.

When Jean walks into the tattoo shop Harry can't deny his instant attraction to the man and neither can Jean judging by the bulge behind his fly. After a totally inappropriate but scorching hot scene behind the tattoo curtain both men want to take their attraction a little farther. In the back room after Harry has tied Jean to the bed Clyde walks in and joins the fun. Jean has very mixed emotions about what happens but cannot deny he enjoyed it.

After agreeing to go out to a club for the night with the guys and that turning into a weekend of the hottest sex of his life Jean isn't sure he can walk away from the pleasure that Harry and Clyde have introduced him to. He also isn't sure he can do just sex and that seems to be all they are offering.

The character's in this story and their emotions are so real. Everyone can understand Harry's feelings once we know his back story. And while Clyde's may be harder for us to understand I felt that it started from a good place and in the end we really can't help who we fall in love with. Jean's journey was more one of self acceptance and once he was able to do that he could better understand the dynamics between Harry and Clyde.

This story pulled at my heartstrings and made it necessary for me to take several cold showers and any time an author can do that I think they have a winner. This book pushes several buttons but it is so well written that you forget about that and just accept the story for what it is, and that is a story about finding and accepting love. I hope Ms. Hauser revisits these characters because I would love to see Sam staring in his own book.

[Lisa ~ Books Are My Drugs ~ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Jean is an art professor who meets Harry Callahan when he goes to have one of his designs tattooed. He's very attracted to Harry & he ends up having sex with Harry after his tat is finished. While he & Harry are in the act, Harry's brother Clyde walks in on them & then joins. Jean then finds out that Harry & Clyde often share men.

Jean is practically instantly in love with Harry. Harry isn't quite as quick to fall (or admit to falling) as he has been burned in the past & is now more reluctant to be that vulnerable.

Clyde is a firefighter in his real job, but dances at a strip club hoping to become the next big porn star. Cyde also is really attached to Harry since he helped Harry through his bad break-up when Harry was just a teen. Clyde gets really jealous of how into Jean Harry is & tries to cause a bit of trouble for the pair.

There's also another tattoo artist named Sam who get included in the sex fests frequently.

I just really could not like this book. The insta-love, the boring repetitive sex scenes, tons of editing errors, cheesy dialogue. The creepiness of Clyde & Harry's relationship. Just all combined to make this something I couldn't enjoy.

[Arlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a twisted, strange, hypersexual and mystifying story. Two brothers, Clyde and Harry, are muscle bound, leather clad, tattoo-covered gay bikers. Harry is a uniquely talented and successful tattoo artist, owning three lucrative tattoo parlors in the L.A. area. Clyde is a volunteer firefighter by day, a stipper and night and aspires to be a gay porn star. Jean is the sophisticated, cultured art history professor who becomes embroiled in an intense, bdsm fueled threeway tryst with the brothers. What starts out as a one week stand comes to a chaotic end when Jean falls in love...with only one of them

Unique, ridiculously over-the-top, explicit sexual content. I don't typically like bdsm, but this was pretty hot. The emotional ties between the MC's were all over the place and the pacing pushed the bounds of plausibility for me. But this was as bizarre as it was fun, so what the hell do I know?

[Joelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I saw m/m/m BDSM in G.A. Hauser's advertisement for this book, I just knew I had to buy it. Looking at the cover art, I hoped it was even half as sensual and exciting as the man standing in that hole, looking up. G.A. did a wonderful job letting us into the minds of the characters. I instantly connected with all three, although in different ways. I adored Clyde's uncertainty and insecurity. Harry, wow! I don't generally like to have the thought "if only he wasn't gay," but everything about Harry made me think that, as well as wishing he was a real person. I loved all the talk about tattoos and art, in addition to the constant sexuality. Then the introduction Jean, the art history professor, in chapter 2? Gorgeous! The sex and BDSM throughout was so hot, so entrancing that I started re-reading the book the moment I finished it. I loved the ending, not at all what I expected.

[Florebunda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-read October 2013.

I'm quite taken with G A Hauser's West Hollywood men. This one has a handsome but lonely art history professor, semi-estranged from his family, who decides to have a tattoo (small one near his groin) at a West Hollywood tattoo parlour. He meets 'Dirty' Harry Callahan and his brother Clyde (Hauser must be a Clint fan!) and begins a whirlwind lust-filled week discovering his subby side with Harry, Clyde and their friend Sam. I felt quite sorry for Harry; his history was lightly handled but his pain came through. Not sure about Clyde but I think his heart is somewhere around the right place. Jean, ah I'd love to read that story where he takes the boys home for Christmas :) The story is told through sex. There is a lot. But each scene does progress the story in a small way. More than 4 stars. M/M/M and another M, and friendly BDSM.

[Chantel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just wasn't feeling this book.

Here's how it went:
Meet up
Have kinky sex
Clean up
Kiss
Leave

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I struggled with that sequence by 30% of the way through the book. The conflict was non existent and what little there was was glossed over in two seconds. I could've liked this if the characters felt real, but every person felt shallow and ridiculous. My favorite part of the whole thing was at the strip club for the contest. The rest? Too much and too little all at once.

2.5/5

[Magen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super sexy read. I mean honestly. You have hot, tattooed, alpha males with bikes AND throw in crazy hot MMM lovin' with some easy BDSM twists- what more can a girl ask for? The ending was weird though. She had a good story line going the whole book and then abruptly changed one of the MC's personality's into a complete jackass with no explanation. It just didn't sit well with me so I only gave it three stars as a result.

[Da'ad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hot damn! I'd have given this more starts if the book wasn't so... Moody. What the heck happened at the end there? It felt like the author was winging it and things didn't feel the least bit smooth or thought out. Hm. Nice read though, even if feelings only included 2 of the 4 people involved, which would have been cool if it didn't seem like that move was decided near the end instead of being expected from the start. Oh well. I enjoyed the hell out of all the bondage. Yum!

[Addicted2M/M · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've said before, and-unfortunately-I'll probably say it again: I do not get why, after all the books she has put out, she doesn't have a good proofreader. Or even mediocre. Frustrating as all hell.

On to the story. I liked Harry. Jean was okay, and Clyde was an ass. I don't even understand why Sam came into it at all.

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

I always like to try new genres but to be honest I'm not too sure about this one. There was a lot of repeating of scenes half of them could have cut or mixed up. There wasn't really any plot to the story and the characters could have had more depth. I wanted to know why they were the way they were. What Sam had to do with all this I have no idea.

[AussieMum · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not Shakespeare and there's a LOT of loose ends here that don't get tied up but it was mostly sexy, silly and fun to suspend reality for a couple of hours.

I kind of wish it was a deeper story because there's a lot of potential with these characters but it never went beyond the superficial instalove and sex unfortunately.

[Nik]

I'm not going to rate this bc I didn't finish it. I was rec'd this book and it was just not my cuppa. Just a whole bunch of PWP. I've read some other books by this author and liked them, this just wasn't for me.

[C.Line · Rating 3 out of 5]

The sex was hot. Really, really hot. But I didn't really feel a strong connection between any of the characters (except for the relationship between Harry & Clyde) and I was pretty dissatisfied with the ending.

[Cheyenne · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK so I thought I was going to love this book but I didn't. there was no relationship just sex which was smoking but they barely even talked about anything. I was let down with this book 3 stars only cause I love tattoo hotties

[Marsha Spence · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book. The scenes were super hot, the characters engaging... Just really enjoyed and hope there is a book 2 in the making!

[Frances McNeal · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars.

[Gigi · Rating 1 out of 5]

G.A. Hauser and I do NOT mesh well.