DIRTY SEXY PLAYER (Dirty Games Duet #1) by Laurelin Paige-Review & Excerpt Tour
DIRTY SEXY PLAYER
Manwhore #5
by Laurelin Paige
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance
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RELEASE DATE: July 23, 2018
Weston King knows how to play. But wild nights and owning an extensive collection of women’s panties don’t carry the thrill they once did, so when his business partner Donovan suggests an outrageous plan to allow them to take over their competition, Wes takes him up on the offer. The crazy idea? Marry the competitor.
Elizabeth Dyson, the bride-to-be in question, is on board with the plan. She wants access to her trust fund and can only get it once she marries. Each has something the other wants – all they have to do is pretend to like each other well enough to tie the knot.
Only trouble is, playing fiancé to Elizabeth isn’t quite that simple. Wes finds her sexy and brilliant…and soon wishes their engagement wasn’t fake at all. Not that he’d ever tell her that.
But a lover boy like Wes can only stand an empty bed for so long…and even the best of players has to put down his cards eventually
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REVIEW: DIRTY SEXY PLAYER is the first instalment in Laurelin Paige’s contemporary, adult DIRTY GAMES erotic, romance duet focusing on businessman and Reach Inc. partner Weston King, and twenty-five year old Dyson Empire heiress Elizabeth Dyson. Weston King and his business partner were first introduced to the reader in the author’s Dirty Duet Series. I am not quite sure where in the time line of this particular series the Dirty Duet series takes place but considering the premise of both, there is a possible cross-over and parallel story.You do not have to have read the Dirty Duet to understand or follow Dirty Sexy Player.
Told from dual first person points of view (Elizabeth and Weston) DIRTY SEXY PLAYER (first released in audio April 2018) follows the enemies to lovers/ fake romance-marriage trope between businessman Weston King, and Dyson Empire heiress Elizabeth Dyson. Upon the death of Elizabeth’s father Dell Dyson, founder, CEO and majority shareholder of Dyson Media, Elizabeth became the sole heir to the bulk of his fortune but circumstances prevent Elizabeth from taking over as her father added a misogynistic provision that Elizabeth must be twenty-nine or married before she is able to gain control. With her father’s cousin slowly dismantling the Dyson Empire, Elizabeth was desperate to secure her share of the family business. Enter Weston King, who, with the not so subtle push from his business partner Donovan Kincaid, reluctantly offers his hand in marriage in an effort to help Elizabeth gain control of Dyson Media, that in return merges Dyson advertising subsidiary with Reach Inc. What ensues is the acrimonious relationship between Elizabeth and Weston that is continuously impacted by jealousy, subversion, betrayal, secrets, lies and presumed expectations.
Weston King is a player who wants nothing to do with marrying Elizabeth Dyson, a woman he deems unworthy of his attention and time but desperate times call for desperate measures when Donovan makes Weston an offer he cannot refuse. Elizabeth isn’t happy about a marriage of (in)convenience but if it means saving her father’s company from a complete dismantling then a feisty Elizabeth is ready to do anything including marrying a man whose dislike for our heroine is palpable and heart breaking. Immaturity, misunderstanding and a distinct lack of communication are only some of the obstacles for our leading couple.
The relationship between Weston and Elizabeth is caustic, antagonistic and acidic. Weston’s belligerent attitude is off-putting, and his on-going need to throw his past sexual conquests into his fake-fiance’s face are petulant and immature. From the outset, their palpable sexual attraction is disguised by the bitter and testy back and forth. Elizabeth wants a no-sex relationship but all good ideas are overcome by want and need. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense.
We are re-introduced to Weston’s business partner Donovan Kincaid, an alpha male who controls Weston like a puppet on a string; Weston’s friends with benefits Sabrina Lind; fellow business partner Nate Sinclair; and Elizabeth’s mother Angela Dyson.
DIRTY SEXY PLAYER focuses on the hate-love relationship between a woman desperate enough to embark on a long-term business and marriage arrangement with a man who despises the ground upon which she walks. Faking her love for Weston is complicated by Weston’s need to hurt the woman with whom he is falling in love. The premise is spirited, clever and edgy: the characters are combative and colorful; the romance is provocative but struggles in the face of preconceived notions and the inconvenient truth. DIRTY SEXY PLAYER ends on a cliff-hanger, you have been warned.
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Reviewed by Sandy
The excerpt is intended for mature readers 18+ due to language and sexual content
“Don’t worry about them. Just focus on what you’re doing.”
Easy for him to say. He wasn’t facing them. He was only looking at me.
Nope. I couldn’t think about that either. Just had to focus on the task at hand.
I closed my eyes. “So just pretend that I… That we are… That under my dress…” I couldn’t even say it.
Weston leaned forward and murmured near my ear. “Yes, pretend that under your dress you are not wearing any panties. I have my dick out. I’m working you, and you are showing me exactly how you like it. Now go.”
Just like that, my panties were damp.
I didn’t know if he was saying those things to loosen me up or to get a rise out of me, either was possible.
Whatever his intent, it did the trick. He set the scene. I felt my face flush like the women in the videos as I imagined him rubbing his crown against my slit before nudging his tip inside and then burying himself to the hilt.
I opened my mouth in a silent gasp, acting out how I was sure it would feel. Good. It would feel so good.
This was so…weird. So hot and sexy and arousing and weird.
I wondered if he was feeling it too, feeling turned on, or if it was just me. It wasn’t like I could ask though, and knowing probably wouldn’t help my performance anyway.
So I concentrated on me. Focused on the task.
“Do I move or something?” I bucked my hips forward and felt the friction against my crotch as it rubbed the fly of his pants.
Mmm.
“Yeah,” he said breathlessly. “That’s good. That motion. Just like that.”
“Okay. Okay.” I rocked against him again, and again, my hips tilting back and forth, my clit brushing against his fly. Every time, stroking and kindling a fire in a fireplace I hadn’t had cleaned for some time. I spread my thighs a little wider and braced my knees against the bench so I could swing my pelvis all the way forward, in and out, in and…
Oh.
I froze. “Is that—?” But I didn’t have to ask. There was most definitely a fat, thick ridge pressed against the crotch panel of my panties. I guess that answered the question of whether he was feeling it too.
My eyes flew open. “Oh my God!”
“Look,” he said, ready to defend himself. “There’s an extremely attractive woman sitting on my lap. I cannot help what happens to my cock. It has a mind of its own.”
A really big mind of its own.
In 2013, Laurelin Paige self-published her first novel. Her husband was just laid off, she had three kids, one with special needs, and they had just filed for bankruptcy so she needed this novel to work. Less than 1 year later, her debut novel, Fixed on You, was at the top of the bestseller lists and was named one of the top ten selling books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly (the only self-published book to do so) and a Top Ten Favorite Read of 2014 by People Magazine. Her successive self-published novels have been smash hits with readers.
Laurelin Paige is the NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Fixed Trilogy. She’s a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters.
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Great review, Sandy. This story looks very intense, even to the point when they make the hero so nasty you become more irritated.
Wonderful review, Sandy. The premise of this duet sounds amazing.
Looks intriguing, thanks Sandy.
Thanks for the excellent review !
Very nice review, thanks for the excerpt !
Great review, TRC/Sandy! Thanks for the excerpt, too!
Thanks for the wonderful review and great excerpt.
Awesome review and excerpt!! Can’t wait to read!! Shared on all my socials!!
Great review, Sandy. Thanks.
Terrific review, Sandy. Looks like a great read.
Another great review, thanks Sandy.
Thanks for the great review and excerpt.
Fantastic review, thanks Sandy. Love Laurelin’s books and series.