Dirty English (British Bad Boys, #1)

by Ilsa Madden-Mills

[stacey_is_sassy]

An audio review

***3.5 Stars***

I've been listening to audio books a lot more lately and it has been very, very interesting. When I went shopping looking for a new purchase I came across the cover for Dirty English. To say I was a little distracted is a HUGE understatement. I may have even been so distracted that I didn't read the blurb. I mean, I'd seen a lot of friends who had read and loved it, why not just jump in and take the plunge? Well, you can imagine my surprise (and my smacking my forehead in frustration) when I realised I'd picked up an NA, College romance. Ok, Sassy, suck it up buttercup and give it a go...SO I DID!!

The introduction certainly caught my attention and I was sucked into Elizabeth Bennett's world....hold up, haven't I been here before? No, wrong Elizabeth Bennett (cheesy, I know, but I couldn't help myself). This Elizabeth survived a horrible experience that has left her scarred and troubled. She has somewhat put herself back together, but she will never again be the same girl she was before Prom night. Now, that she is in college, she is determined to get her degree and make a life for herself. She has a loser mum who she knows she can't depend on, so any success and future will be all up to her. For awhile things go smoothly and she manages to keep her nose to the grind and keep her relationships strictly to the one night only kind...until she meets Dirty English.

Dirty English is the name that Declan Bray has become known as in the fighting ring. Declan has his nose to the grind too. His dream is to open a gym for fighters and he is definitely on track to have it become a reality. He studies hard and works out hard. To help finance his gym he does some underground fighting. It's dangerous but it is also something Declan loves to do. When Elizabeth Bennett walks into his life, he knows that things are about to change.

This journey is not an easy one. They push and pull each other (as college relationships are wont to do) finding that the attraction is turning to something a lot deeper than either of them expected. Friends are there to have their backs when the ex's (for both of them) invade their lives. Unfortunately, both of them have bad ones...who maybe even have a screw loose...or two...or three. Family get involved and we see how dysfunctional both their lives have been up till now.

Now, in regards to the audio... besides the cover, I picked this one because it has a male narrator and his voice was really appealing in the sample. So, the male narrator does Declan's chapters and there is also a female narrator who does Elizabeth's chapters. I thought it would be cool with a male narrator, but I'm not fully convinced, to be honest. I think the female narrator does a better job dropping her voice for the male characters than the male narrator doing a higher pitched female voice. Just my opinion, though.

Overall, I enjoyed Dirty English. I'm not a huge fan of NA so a 3.5 stars mean that it was pretty damn good. Will I go back and read/listen to more from this author? Maybe, if she does an adult contemporary.

To buy Dirty English from Amazon - http://amzn.to/2atG2Hg

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