DIRTY SEXY INKED (Dirty Sexy #2) by Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde-Review and Book Tour
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About the book: Release Date April 5, 2016
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.
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REVIEW: DIRTY SEXY INKED is the second installment in Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde’s contemporary, adult, DIRTY SEXY erotic, romance series focusing on the Kincaid Brothers-Clay, Mason and Levi. This is tattoo artist/bad boy Mason Kincaid, and his best friend Katrina Sands’ story line. DIRTY SEXY INKED can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Mason and Katrina) DIRTY SEXY INKED is a friends to lovers / unrequited love trope that follows Mason and Katrina to Vegas where the adage of ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’ must be adhered to. Clay and Samantha’s ( DIRTY SEXY SAINT #1) Vegas wedding finds Mason and Katrina acting on long buried feelings for one another but Mason knows that to get involved with Katrina would mean the destruction of their friendship and probably both of their hearts. Katrina offers up a weekend of sex with no commitment for anything more……
Mason and Katrina have been best friends since the age of fourteen when Mason rescued Katrina from the high school bullies. Mason has always been Katrina’s protector and friend but things have started to change-Mason and Katrina’s emotions and feelings have gone beyond friendship, and neither has acted upon their wants and needs. Mason has always been a manwhore whose reputation with the ladies has hurt his best friend in more ways than one; he is unaware of Katrina’s feelings, and due to his past family history, Mason is unable to trust any woman in his life. What ensues is the push and pull of relationship that is hindered by a lack of communication, a sexy dance on the bar at Coyote Ugly, and the fear of a friendship ruined by sex and a darkened past. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense. Mason will stake his claim one way or another.
The world building focuses on Mason and Katrina’s pasts; their early years and the damage done by broken homes, abuse and sexual assault. All of the previous story line characters including Mason’s brothers (Clay and Levi) play secondary and supporting roles. Levi’s story will be told next in DIRTY SEXY CUFFED-Levi is a cop with the Chicago PD.
DIRTY SEXY INKED is a quick and very sexy read; an enjoyable tale about best friends and the emotional fall out of their earlier years. The premise is intoxicating; the characters are colorful, energetic and playful; the romance is decadent and impassioned. Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde blend their energy into a fascinating and heartwarming series.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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.
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’s career spans over a decade and a half with various New York publishing houses, and she is now an Indie author who runs her own business and loves every exciting minute of her publishing journey. 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.
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Erika Wilde:
Erika Wilde (aka Janelle Denison) is the USA Today bestselling author of over 50 contemporary romances for multiple print publishers.
So, why the new pen name?
As Janelle Denison I’ve always written sexy books, but lately my writing has taken on more erotic elements that I wanted to keep separate for readers because not everyone likes their reading material on the spicier, kinkier side of romance. However, please be assured that even as Erika Wilde, you will still get an emotionally layered story with characters you’ll care about and fall in love with. That is always my goal, whether I’m writing straight contemporary romances, or more erotically charged stories.
Currently, I’m working on The Marriage Diaries and making sure that Dean and Jillian enjoy exploring the more erotic side to their marriage. The series will be on-going, with no foreseeable ending as of right now, for as long as readers want to be voyeurs to Dean and Jillian’s sizzling new relationship.
I’m also planning a spin-off series in the future, featuring the hot military men that work security for Dean at Noble and Associates.
Website: http://www.erikawilde.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5357264.Erika_Wilde
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Great review, Sandy. This sounds like an emotional read. I do enjoy many friends to lovers stories.
Great review, Sandy. Sounds like a new series fir me to try.
Looks great Sandy. Can’t wait. Congratulations to Erika and Carly on the new release.
Thanks for the wonderful review and great excerpt.
Looks great. I read book one, looking forward to book two, thanks.
Terrific review, Sandy. Looks like a good series.
Wonderful review Sandy. Looks like something I would love to read!