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Dirty Sexy Inked
- Narrated by: Sophie Eastlake
- Series: Dirty Sexy, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Erotica, Literature & Fiction
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Summary
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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- whatcha.listening.to
- 21-02-20
Dirty Sexy Inked
I had truly no intention of continuing this series after reading the first book. It was OK for me but I didn’t love it then I watched the Passionflix movie and I had to know what was going to happen with Mason and Katrina!!!
So I picked up the audiobook and I was sunk, I loved it. I loved how he didn’t see what was right in front on of him. I loved that she gives him sh….t and he totally takes it lol. That’s what true friends are like though right they will call you out when your being a douche!
The way Mason blooms in this book well it’s kinda awesome and I love when you think you know a character and they surprise you. He did that for me. I really loved Kat as well she was everything he needed.
Great book, now I want to know about the rest of the series! You can bet your bippy I will be listening to those as well.
Great narration too, I am a fan of Sophie Eastlake and her man voice. ;)
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- Laura McMillin
- 10-07-16
Mason Kincaid.... Yum!!!
"You're mine, Kitty Kat!"
Loved Mason & Katrina's best friends to lovers story! It's hot, sexy, & angsty.
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- Sandy Crossen
- 23-02-18
Hot sex abond
Best friends to lovers; soulmates in fictional reality. Listening pleasure for erotic romance book lovers.
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- Rose S.
- 03-02-17
Want his ink ...
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I love, love, loved this book. I have wanted to know Mason and Katrina's story since book one and I was definitely not disappointed. My visceral reactions to these two characters coming together and personal battles cannot be put into words. Kudos and adoration all around because this book put me through the paces in more ways than one.
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- Sunshine
- 17-07-16
Always enjoy Vegas and loved you for years!
BFF Katrina & Mason have known each other since high school. They both have troubled pasts, and have been best friends since he saved her from bullies. Katrina has secretly loved him for years. Mason has secretly fantasized about her. He's never had a girlfriend; love 'em and leave 'em. A group of them travel to Las Vegas for his brother's and her friend's bachelor/ bachelorette celebration and wedding. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? This is a low drama, romance with some mild, commanding, hot and hard sexual scenes (not BDSM). I would have really enjoyed more eroticism. I've requested and I'm still waiting for authors J.D. Hawkins, Eve Jagger, Katie McCoy, Lila Monroe, & Lola Darling to appear in Audible. What reads! Keeping fingers crossed for their erotic romance books. Narrator did a good job. I enjoyed this for a credit.
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- Candateshia Pafford
- 28-04-16
AWESOMENESS!!
What a great book!!! I so listen to this out of order... I need to go back and listen to book 1, as this is book 2... but hot dang... I loved it... The whole best friend to lover thing is so cute and realistic at time.... I loved the characters and the instant heat rolling off the pages (or rather my earbuds)...
Such a well credit spent... LOVED IT!!! I will most definitely go back to book 1 and scoop up book 3 when it comes out... AWESOMENESS!!
Narration was amazing... its Eastlake... one of best out there... Here paranormal is fantastic but her contemporary is just as good..
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- Jill Miller
- 27-03-20
Emotion, Sexy, Hot
Who can’t help falling for the bad boy? But what hurts more that unrequited affection? My heart broke over and over for Katrina. That poor woman has had so much sadness in her life and the one person who brings her happiness can’t see what is right in front of him. Silently loving your best friend for 12 years is hard but watching him be a man whore is even harder.
Once again this co-writing team wrote a brilliantly hot story but with loads of emotion and heart. This one was an emotional journey filled with heartbreak, trauma and love. Mason and Katrina are essentially two lost souls that found a way to each other and healed the other.
Sophie Eastlake once again narrated and did an excellent job portraying both Katrina and Mason. She put enough emotion to give you a great experience.
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- Sam
- 28-05-19
love love love
I absolutely loved every book in this series and would recommend any of them to anyone looking for a good story that leads to some southern bell fanning! They're all connected and stand alone which makes them nice for specific desires and/or rereading!
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- Katrice Collins
- 28-12-18
Dirty Sexy Inked
I enjoyed this book this series, Mason was a bad boy, it took almost the end of the book
To know that his best friend was Rape. Bad I was 😢 But at the end the !ove over power everything. Good 👍thank you Carly Phillip and Erika Wilde (Sophie Eastlake)
You Rock 🎸 Girl
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- Marianne H.
- 27-11-18
Oh Mason Mason MASON!
Okay so book two of the Dirty Sexy series and this is about Clay's young brother Mason Kincaid and his best friend of more than 10 years, Katrina Sands (or Kat). Mason has been Katrina's everything for so long; her protector, her confidant, her best friend but as of late, Kat has been feeling for Mason more than what best friends would, at least in a romantic sense. Her unrequited growing feelings for Mason is starting to get in the way of their friendship because after watching Mason man whore himself around, she's lost hope that he'd wake up and man up and acknowledge that Kat is the one, like THE one; so she needs to move on and get what she deserves, someone to love her in return, and not in a friend way (guess you can say in a dirty and sexy way, wink wink). When Kat starts to withdraw from her BFF, Mason takes notice and confronts her but when Mason confronts her, take cover because sparks fly! And that brewing chemistry that's been there bursts; dirty and sexy is damn right once Mason finally steps up and takes notice of Katrina and after all these years, what they both can have but until Katrina can trust Mason and what he's feeling (because she was the one constant good thing in his life, and he never wanted to taint her with his perverse need to use her for sex, to ease all those underling raging emotions form the past that he struggled to keep buried), he's determine to do what he has to in order to gain her trust and prove himself once and for all. I love friends to lovers plots; especially when it has a strong heroine and tatted hero, being dirty and sexy is an added bonus!