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Down and Dirty
Being a single dad isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but I’ll do anything for my little girl. Taking care of Jade and keeping food on the table is top priority for me.
Then there’s Violet. Damn! She’s hot as hell, rich, stuck up and irrational. Just my kind of girl.
I’ll show her how a real man can make her feel. Give her a tune-up. Lube her up and make that pussy hum. Fuck that bitchy attitude right out of her.
Get down, get dirty and make her beg for more.
If you love dirty-talking mechanics, you'll LOVE this instalove novella!
Down and Dirty is a standalone story. No cliffhangers, no cheating, just kindle-melting happily ever afters!
Then there’s Violet. Damn! She’s hot as hell, rich, stuck up and irrational. Just my kind of girl.
I’ll show her how a real man can make her feel. Give her a tune-up. Lube her up and make that pussy hum. Fuck that bitchy attitude right out of her.
Get down, get dirty and make her beg for more.
If you love dirty-talking mechanics, you'll LOVE this instalove novella!
Down and Dirty is a standalone story. No cliffhangers, no cheating, just kindle-melting happily ever afters!
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April 7, 2019
Free read and thank goodness it was. Short quick read, no drama, no angst just Insta love. First date they have sex, second date sex and I love you! Ace's baby mama shows up drops huge bombshell no emotions no stress just ok and story moves on, well if you wanna call it a story. A story has connections, has romance, love something other than fillers of sex scenes to get a word count! I know, I know too many sex scenes? That coming from me!?! But yes there was! It was just like I said sex scenes = filler instead of developing the story!
December 1, 2017
Violet moved back to her mothers house after her husband cheated on her and she is left with their baby boy. Because of that aby boy she didn't work the last years and that means finding a job isn't easy.
At the day care of her son she meets a very hot guy she starts dreaming about. When he asks her out she says yes.
While her mother baby sits they have a hot night and it is the start of something more, hot nice and romance.
Great read
At the day care of her son she meets a very hot guy she starts dreaming about. When he asks her out she says yes.
While her mother baby sits they have a hot night and it is the start of something more, hot nice and romance.
Great read
October 22, 2017
I received a complimentary copy of this book and I am voluntarily reviewing it.
This was a great quick read. I enjoyed it. I did appreciate the dual POVs. If you are looking for something to read with some spice but don't have a lot of time, this is for you.
This was a great quick read. I enjoyed it. I did appreciate the dual POVs. If you are looking for something to read with some spice but don't have a lot of time, this is for you.
August 31, 2018
Arc review for honest review. This is a story of violet and her son Ian trying to start new after her cheating ex husband. Ace and his daughter jade. Who kids go to the same school. Very cute great story.
April 29, 2019
Violet and Ace meet because their kids are in the same daycare. Insta-love with many explicit scenes to skip over. Not much story. Saw through the baby mama drama right away. Sawyer "disappearing" and then suddenly returning from boot camp only shows no knowledge of military.
June 3, 2019
This book is about second chances, Violet is getting a divorce after she found her husband was cheated on her after she had his baby, she moved back to be with her Mum. Ace's friend left him holding the baby when she run off.
February 13, 2023
A sweet, charming and romantic journey to go on with Ace and Violet. Their attraction is instant, their chemistry is palpable but the friendship and connection they develop is simply amazing. I enjoyed this story.
September 11, 2017
3.25 stars
September 29, 2017
It was short but sweet and steamy! I loved it. Especially where he says that you make a family. I agree. A family is just not blood it's whos there for you, truly.
June 7, 2018
A short story about a pair of single parents who meet and instantly connect. Quick read. Hot and Steamy with a surprising twist. I received a complimentary copy and am voluntarily reviewing.
May 1, 2019
Received it free. It was a delightful quick read. I'm glad Violet got a chance to see real love. It will be a happy ending and good to see the little drama didnt change people's lives at all.
October 31, 2024
Truly a case of "the devil's in the details." Just can't give it more than one star.
It's a cute premise, in all honesty. Two single parents, each rather burned by their previous relationship, meet via a tiff at the day care center. A misunderstanding, an apology, and lots of sex later, we have our HEA. And I actually really liked the ending, too - the whole blended family thing. I love when romance novels include adoption (or any variation of the whole "family's more than blood" idea) instead of just pregnancy being the be-all-end-all of a relationship.
But there were a few things that bothered me:
The leads didn't make the best first impressions. Violet (h) tries to be "sassy and cute" and really is just b*tchy (how did she honestly think teasing a stressed adult about making his kid cry would be funny??). And Ace (H) makes some very harsh snap judgements about Violet before they've even met. Yes, he gets better (a good apology goes a long way to keep a character from being an alpha-hole) but it takes a while for each of them to overcome those first impressions.
The kids were very vague as characters. They don't even seem like real characters at all, just like plot devices with names. I mean, we don't even know how old Jade is! Ace kept talking about Rylan (baby momma) running off "years ago" but it was all very vague. And Ian is first described as 14-months old, but talks in sentences like a kid twice his age. Neither child was fleshed out as a character (or even as a prop/scenery) which made them very weird fits in a romance about single parents.
Speaking of Ian and Violet, their whole timeline is very awkward. She talks about the break-up of her marriage as ages ago. Her lust, etc is something "long dead" except she's only been home a few weeks and her divorce isn't even finalized yet! Add to that Ian's vague age/abilities/description and it's just another stumbling block pulling you out of the story.
Milwaukee isn't a tiny town, the way the characters kept referring to it. Yes, it's not nearby Chicago, but the main part of Milwaukee is nearly 600,000 people, and the greater urban area is over 2 million. In 2014, it was the 31st largest city in the US - bigger than Albuquerue, Sacramento, Long Beach, Atlanta, Raleigh, Miami, Cleveland, or New Orleans (going by urban population, not greater metro areas) (I looked it up). It's home to 2 major league sports teams, for crying out loud! It was just really weird to have characters keep talking about it like it was some little backwater, when it's big enough to really be considered a City.
The whole "basic training" thing with Sawyer. So many points about this that bothered me, all of which showed how little the author knows of the military. If you don't know something about a subject, either do the research, or don't write about it! Because it's jarring and a complete turn-off for a reader who has any basic knowledge of the subject! For starters, basic training for US military is 2 months, give or take depending on the branch. There's no way there could have been a hook-up, a baby, and a runaway baby momma in the time he was away at basic. Even if you factor in AIT (training for a specific job in the military), most trainings are still just a couple months, not long enough for this whole timeline. And if he was gone long enough for this all to take place, he would through basic and AIT, and be headed to his first duty station, not coming back to be a drunk PITA. Then the plot twist? So couldn't have happened for so many reasons. So yeah, the devil's in the details, all right, and these details really did a number here.
Alternating 1st person POV. No OW/OM/love triangle drama, though both have some issues with exes. No cheating. No miscommunication/lack of communication stupidity. There's really not a lot of conflict at all, but it's also only a novella. HEA and no cliffhanger. While I like the ending, as I keep saying, it's all about the details. Here, the details are sloppy, underdeveloped, and/or under-researched. Vagueness and inaccuracies on things from the children's ages to the relationship timelines to the whole military element... well, it pulled me so far out of the story that it killed it for me. At least it was free.
Would I read more by this author? It's not that it's a bad writing style - I actually didn't mind that. Maybe with a co-author, she gets things more fleshed out, because I've read another work of hers that I did enjoy. So, maybe I might read more, but with a grain of salt.
It's a cute premise, in all honesty. Two single parents, each rather burned by their previous relationship, meet via a tiff at the day care center. A misunderstanding, an apology, and lots of sex later, we have our HEA. And I actually really liked the ending, too - the whole blended family thing. I love when romance novels include adoption (or any variation of the whole "family's more than blood" idea) instead of just pregnancy being the be-all-end-all of a relationship.
But there were a few things that bothered me:
The leads didn't make the best first impressions. Violet (h) tries to be "sassy and cute" and really is just b*tchy (how did she honestly think teasing a stressed adult about making his kid cry would be funny??). And Ace (H) makes some very harsh snap judgements about Violet before they've even met. Yes, he gets better (a good apology goes a long way to keep a character from being an alpha-hole) but it takes a while for each of them to overcome those first impressions.
The kids were very vague as characters. They don't even seem like real characters at all, just like plot devices with names. I mean, we don't even know how old Jade is! Ace kept talking about Rylan (baby momma) running off "years ago" but it was all very vague. And Ian is first described as 14-months old, but talks in sentences like a kid twice his age. Neither child was fleshed out as a character (or even as a prop/scenery) which made them very weird fits in a romance about single parents.
Speaking of Ian and Violet, their whole timeline is very awkward. She talks about the break-up of her marriage as ages ago. Her lust, etc is something "long dead" except she's only been home a few weeks and her divorce isn't even finalized yet! Add to that Ian's vague age/abilities/description and it's just another stumbling block pulling you out of the story.
Milwaukee isn't a tiny town, the way the characters kept referring to it. Yes, it's not nearby Chicago, but the main part of Milwaukee is nearly 600,000 people, and the greater urban area is over 2 million. In 2014, it was the 31st largest city in the US - bigger than Albuquerue, Sacramento, Long Beach, Atlanta, Raleigh, Miami, Cleveland, or New Orleans (going by urban population, not greater metro areas) (I looked it up). It's home to 2 major league sports teams, for crying out loud! It was just really weird to have characters keep talking about it like it was some little backwater, when it's big enough to really be considered a City.
The whole "basic training" thing with Sawyer. So many points about this that bothered me, all of which showed how little the author knows of the military. If you don't know something about a subject, either do the research, or don't write about it! Because it's jarring and a complete turn-off for a reader who has any basic knowledge of the subject! For starters, basic training for US military is 2 months, give or take depending on the branch. There's no way there could have been a hook-up, a baby, and a runaway baby momma in the time he was away at basic. Even if you factor in AIT (training for a specific job in the military), most trainings are still just a couple months, not long enough for this whole timeline. And if he was gone long enough for this all to take place, he would through basic and AIT, and be headed to his first duty station, not coming back to be a drunk PITA. Then the plot twist? So couldn't have happened for so many reasons. So yeah, the devil's in the details, all right, and these details really did a number here.
Alternating 1st person POV. No OW/OM/love triangle drama, though both have some issues with exes. No cheating. No miscommunication/lack of communication stupidity. There's really not a lot of conflict at all, but it's also only a novella. HEA and no cliffhanger. While I like the ending, as I keep saying, it's all about the details. Here, the details are sloppy, underdeveloped, and/or under-researched. Vagueness and inaccuracies on things from the children's ages to the relationship timelines to the whole military element... well, it pulled me so far out of the story that it killed it for me. At least it was free.
Would I read more by this author? It's not that it's a bad writing style - I actually didn't mind that. Maybe with a co-author, she gets things more fleshed out, because I've read another work of hers that I did enjoy. So, maybe I might read more, but with a grain of salt.
April 1, 2020
I really wish I could give this one more than five stars I really liked it .. the Fire in both of these character was just off the chart.. loved it
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February 19, 2018I just loved this story. An amazing short story two single parents that collide and later makes it turn out to be better than hot.
Both main characters have to let go and let fate help them decide what to do. It is an enjoyable and very romantic read.
This story has a bit of everything. It is a romance love story and I liked it very much. Emotional and loving story.
Well written story with a nice storyline and plot. I like that the characters and how they develop. A passionate and emotional read with twists.
I like it has an epilogue to finish of the story in a better way. There is passion, a few hot scenes and lots of chemistry in this amazing story. I would have liked it to be a bit longer. It is written in dual POV which gives the reader much more of the thoughts and feelings of the main characters. The story flows nicely and it is very captivating.
I received a copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Both main characters have to let go and let fate help them decide what to do. It is an enjoyable and very romantic read.
This story has a bit of everything. It is a romance love story and I liked it very much. Emotional and loving story.
Well written story with a nice storyline and plot. I like that the characters and how they develop. A passionate and emotional read with twists.
I like it has an epilogue to finish of the story in a better way. There is passion, a few hot scenes and lots of chemistry in this amazing story. I would have liked it to be a bit longer. It is written in dual POV which gives the reader much more of the thoughts and feelings of the main characters. The story flows nicely and it is very captivating.
I received a copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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