Dirty Filthy Rich Men (Dirty Duet, #1)

by Laurelin Paige

[Cocktails and Books]

I’m putting DIRTY FILTHY RICH MEN in the “WTF did I just read” category. Not since Tiffany Reisz have I been so uncomfortable reading a book while at the same time unable to put the thing down.

Let’s start by saying you do need to read DIRTY FILTY RICH BOYS, the prequel novella, to get a true understanding of this duet. Sabrina met Donovan and Weston at Harvard. She had two very different experiences with Donovan and Weston, yet she was unable to further explore what they may have when she forced to drop out of school.

This book picks up ten years later when Sabrina starts working for Donovan and Weston. We know Sabrina still has unresolved feelings for Donovan and what happened at Harvard. She may have taken the job thinking Donovan was going to be a world away, she suddenly discovers Donovan is very much going to be involved in her life.

I figured with Sabrina’s mixed feelings between the two guys that maybe we’d be getting into a menage storyline. WRONG! Instead, some very f’d up encounters happen with Sabrina and Donovan. He’d be horrible to her, she’d get turned on and they’d go from there. These two could probably fill up a Costco with the amount of issues they had with each other. Then we can sprinkle in Weston. He and Sabrina had their own short-lived “thing”, which should have been the normal relationship for Sabrina, but he had his own issue to deal with while she pined for the guy that was a complete d-bag to her.

Then there is the scene that will be a trigger for some readers. I’m don’t want to give it away, but I’m still at a loss as to how someone who suffered a trauma could actually get turned on by something that was identical to the trauma. That was kinky f*ckery at it’s best and had me wanting to throw my kindle across the room cursing Donovan, Sabrina and even Laurelin Paige.

Yet, as I got past that scene and onto the end of the story I was desperate for it not to end. Despite being uncomfortable for most of the book, I was sucked in. It was like being told not to look at something and being compelled to do what you were told not too. I wanted to know what the story was behind Donovan and if there was some way for him and Sabrina to get their shite together and figure it all out. So with as much distress as this book caused me, I will anxiously be awaiting the next book’s release on September 11, 2017.re.