by Carly Phillips
Series: Dirty Sexy #2
Pub. Date: April 5, 2016
Publisher: Self-Pub
Pages: 168
Format: eARC
Source: Rock Star PR
My Rating:
Sultry Scale:
Breaking hearts is what wild and rebellious Mason Kincaid does best. Hit it and quit it is his motto, and with his bad boy reputation and tattoos, he doesn't lack for female companionship. Until one hot night with the one woman he swore he'd never touch becomes an all consuming addiction he can't kick. Katrina Sands has been his best friend for years, but now that he knows what she feels like, and tastes like, there is no going back to being just friends. Hot, dirty sex has never felt so good...or so right.
WooHoo. Much like Dirty Sexy Saint, Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde have produced another contemporary romance which made it past my increasingly hard-to-please self when it comes to contemporary romance. I am trying to get over the burn out, but its more miss than hit lately. So I am totally digging Carly and Erika as a writing duo.
Dirty Sexy Inked is Mason Kincaid's story, the wild and promiscuous middle brother we met in Dirty Sexy Saint. Mason is a manwhore and proud of it, but his wanton ways are Mason's method of keeping everyone at arm's length after a difficult childhood. Based on how Mason was portrayed in the last book, I was really expecting him to come off as a self-absorbed arsehole. However I was pleasantly surprised that Mason was able to behave like a mature adult, show compassion and feeling, and still knock our socks off in the bedroom.
Katrina Sands had been best friends with Mason for more than twelve years, ever since he rescued her from bullies in high school. She has been in love with him for just as long, but fear of losing Mason's friendship and her own tortured past have kept her from revealing her feelings. So Kat is a constant witness to Mason's licentious love fests and its making her a grumpy shrew. I became a fan of Kat in Saint's book... I loved her style and had a great visual of her cascading butterfly tattoo. I was a little worried that her inability to communicate was going to put me off her character, but it didn't seem to bother me too much. I had a good insight to her character and understood some of the way she was feeling, so that helped diminish the annoyance I usually feel when there is a failure to communicate.
The relationship between Mason and Kat unfolded at a nice pace for me. Because they have been best friends for so long, it negated what would have been instalove in a newly-met couple. Once Mason opened his eyes a little, the sexual tension was off the charts and romantic attachments quickly followed. Katrina still had to deal with some insecurities and communication issues, particularly when a plot conflict is thrown it that triggers Kat's past destructive behavior. While I can't say that I liked the plot conflict because of what it represented, it did serve to create an additional emotional hook for the story.
I am looking forward to Dirty Sexy Cuffed too see what straitlaced teetotaler Levi has been hiding beneath his reserved demeanor. I have an inkling about Levi's leanings, but I may be way off base. I can't wait to find out.
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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About the Authors
***About Carly Phillips***
Carly Phillips is the N.Y. Times
and USA Today Bestselling Author of over 50 sexy contemporary romance novels
featuring hot men, strong women and the emotionally compelling stories her
readers have come to expect and love. Carly is happily married to her college
sweetheart, the mother of two nearly adult daughters and three crazy dogs (two
wheaten terriers and one mutant Havanese) who star on her Facebook Fan Page and
website. Carly loves social media and is always around to interact with her
readers. You can find out more about Carly at www.carlyphillips.com.
***About Erika Wilde***
Erika Wilde is the author of the
sexy Marriage Diaries series and The Players Club series. She lives in Oregon
with her husband and two daughters, and when she's not writing you can find her
exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. For more information on her upcoming
releases, please visit website at www.erikawilde.com.
Excerpt
“We’re off to Las Vegas,
Kitty-Kat,” Mason Kincaid said as he rubbed his hands together in anticipation.
“Sin City is the perfect place to get down and dirty and have some fun. What
kind of trouble do you think we can get into while we’re there?”
Katrina Sands buckled
her seat belt and settled more comfortably in the first-class leather seat next
to Mason—her best friend since they were fourteen and freshmen in high school.
She wasn’t at all surprised that he was already making a mental list of all the
wild and reckless adventures that awaited him in a no-holds-barred place like
Las Vegas. Mason Kincaid was a rule breaker, a thrill seeker, and a
self-indulgent bad boy who was all about pleasure and instant gratification.
From everything she’d heard about the city that never slept, he’d be right in
his element.
Oh, joy, she thought with a
resigned sigh. It wasn’t as though she was a prude. Far from it. She just
wasn’t thrilled about watching
her best friend’s man-whoring ways in action in Vegas. She spent enough time
seeing it up close and personal on a day-to-day basis.
She turned her head
and met Mason’s bright blue gaze. “You do realize that this trip isn’t all
about you and your dick, right? That we’re heading to Vegas because your
brother Clay is marrying Samantha?” she asked, reminding him of that one
important detail.
The corners of his
mouth curved with an indulgent grin. “Of course I realize my brother is strapping
on the old ball and chain tomorrow afternoon. But that doesn’t mean the entire
weekend is going to be all wedding, all the time. In fact, tonight Levi and I
plan to take Clay out to make sure he spends his last evening as a bachelor in
style.”
Which gave Mason the
perfect opportunity to carouse for a willing female to take back to his hotel
room for the night. It’s what Mason did. For as long as she’d known him, he’d
had a hit-it-and-quit-it motto when it came to women, and he always made sure
they knew the score up front. He didn’t make promises or do commitment or
anything longer than a one-time fling.
And each time Katrina
watched it happen, a little bit of hope died inside of her. The hope that one
day Mason would see her as more than just a best friend and the woman who
managed to keep his personal and professional shit together. But the man was
oblivious to her deeper feelings for him, and she wasn’t willing to tell him
and risk certain painful rejection. It
was much easier, and safer, keeping them both squarely in the friend zone.
She’d known him for
twelve years, and had truly come to believe that Mason Kincaid didn’t have the
ability to commit to any single woman. And it really wasn’t hard for her to
figure out why considering the kind of childhood he’d had—no father figure to
speak of and a mother who cared more about her next fix than her own kids.
Mason might be a master at giving off a carefree, I-don’t-give-a-crap attitude,
but Katrina was one of the few people who knew just how much pain and resentment
that laid-back demeanor really masked.
The commercial plane
they were taking to Las Vegas finished the boarding process, and one of the
cabin crew started closing the overhead luggage bins, while another made an
announcement to set all electronic devices to airplane mode. A pretty brunette
flight attendant stopped next to Mason’s aisle seat and set her hand on his
shoulder.
He glanced up at her,
and the woman smiled, her complexion flushing a bit as he turned all that
potent male sex appeal her way. Yeah, Mason had that kind of breathtaking
effect on women. Between his gorgeous features, that sexy, panty-dropping
smile, and his sleeves of bad boy tattoos that wrapped around both muscled
arms, he was an irresistible force to the female gender.
And the jerk knew it,
too, and didn’t hesitate to use that charm to his advantage.
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