Author: Dirty Girl Anne

Vacation!

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Kate and I are on vacation for a few days!  While we’re gone we’ll highlight some old favorites.  So, from me, Anne, I give you some audiobook recommendations.

A few weeks back my husband and I were discussing rewatching the Star Wars movies, and how there’s this alternate suggested order that you watch them in.  It’s called Machete Order, and you can read about it here: http://static.nomachetejuggling.com/machete_order.html

I enjoy audiobooks, and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ books are some of my favorites.  However, there are some of her books I avoid like the plague, so I’d like to suggest an alternate listening order for the books in two of her series:

Susan Elizabeth Phillips re-listen, Dirty Girl Order:
Chicago Stars:
It Had to Be You (#1)
Heaven, Texas (#2)
Nobody’s Baby But Mine (#3)
Dream a Little Dream (#4) – optional
(skip This Heart of Mine, #5  – she rapes him and we’re supposed to be ok with it. No.)
Match Me If You Can (#6)
Natural Born Charmer (#7)
Wynette, Texas Series
(Skip Fancy Pants and Glitter Baby)
Listen to:
Lady Be Good (#2)
First Lady (#4)
What I Did For Love (#5) (Note: The first 3 books aren’t connected at all, the last 2 bring them together)
Call Me Irresistible (#6)
The Great Escape (#7) (Although I think it’s fine to skip this one, if you’re like me, you’ll need to know Lucy’s story)
We hope you’re having a great summer and we’ll catch up with you soon!

Wolf Run by B.A. Tortuga

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Grade: C
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: No Kink
Genre: Paranormal, Shifter, Triad, m/m/m
Published: 6/4/14
Reviewed by Anne
106 pages
 
Mick is a alpha wolf shifter who left his pack to travel alone.  He’s looking to set up new roots though, hoping start his own pack.  One day he comes across Scotty, a wolf shifter caged in a small yard running around like crazy.  When he offers to free Scotty, Scotty declines, explaining that he promised his mate Danny that he’d stay put while Danny was at work, since Scotty gets lost easily.  Mick is attracted to Scotty and has a strong urge to take care of him and keep him safe.  He wonders if Scotty and Danny might be the start of his new pack.
 
This was an impulse buy for me.  I was very interested in the set up and enjoyed the excerpt I read.  It started out as a good read, too.  I liked the way that the men’s wolf nature showed up in their human forms, too.  Scotty’s puppy-like hyperness was especially charming… until it hit me that puppies are babies or kids… and then I started having a hard time with it.  I want to be clear, Scotty is an adult in the story.  It’s just that his behaviors are so child like.  It just bothered me.  
 
Also, I enjoy reading about committed triads.  It did catch me off guard that there was sex between Mick and Scotty before Danny had even met or heard about Mick.  That struck me as pretty odd, though it may have just been a part of the world building?  Maybe this wolf society is a lot more open with sex?  
 
Speaking of sex, there were many sex scenes and they were hot and well written.  It did start to tip to the point of a little too much sex vs. plot, and the sex got a little repetitious.  As the book went on it started to drag for me, and I had to make myself finish the last quarter of the book.  There just wasn’t that much conflict or much left to be resolved.
 
So, it was an ok read for me.  I’d recommend it for people who like m/m shifters and a lot of sex.  I haven’t read a lot of m/m shifters, and I enjoyed that aspect of this book – please leave me a recommendation in the comments if you have one you like!

Bonds of Courage by Lynda Aicher

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Grade: B+
Hotness Level: Inferno
Kink Level: High Kink
Genre: Contemporary, BDSM
Series: Wicked Play #6
Published: 6/16/14
Reviewed by Kate
Vanessa, a rep for athletes and co-owner of the Den, has successfully compartmentalized her life.  A different colored phone for family, work, and the Den.  And things and people from one part never cross into another.  Never ever.  Until Holden walks into the Den one evening.  Holden is a pro-hockey player who longs to submit, but his career would be ruined if anyone ever found out.  He applies for membership at the very exclusive and very private The Den.  When Vanessa walks in to conduct the interview, Holden knows that she’s the one.
I went into this one not really expecting to enjoy it.  A Domme is not my favorite type of heroine to read.  But I had read and enjoyed each of the Wicked Play books so I thought I’d give it a try.  And I’m so glad that I did.  The vulnerability that Vanessa was able to show Holden almost brought me to tears and the strength that Holden was able to provide Vanessa.  Yet they still maintained their Domme/sub identities.  *insert happy, contented sighs here*  This was so much more than a Domme/sub relationship.  It was beautiful, emotional, and caring, with a side of delicious kink.  Everything that I’ve come to expect from Lynda Aicher.

I’d highly recommend Lynda Aicher’s Wicked Play series to any fans of Cherise Sinclair or Kallypso Masters.