Wicked Dirty

By: J. Kenner

Narrated by: Paula Hoffman

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's Summary

RITA Award Winner, Erotic Romance, 2018    

Sometimes bad isn't good enough.... 

On the outside, Lyle Tarpin is a clean-cut Hollywood actor whose star is on the rise. Inside, he's battling his own demons, shunning relationships, and finding solace in the arms of a string of anonymous women paid very well for their discretion. But when he's photographed in a compromising position by an over-eager reporter, the only way to save his career is to say that the woman he was with is his fiancée. And now Lyle has to play a very public game with the only woman who's ever managed to get under his skin. 

Struggling waitress Sugar Laine agrees to spend one night with Lyle - but only because she's desperate to save her family home. She never expects that a night of passion will turn into a pretend engagement...or that the heat between them will blossom into love. 

But sometimes love has a price. 

And now the only question is - can Lyle and Sugar afford to pay it? 

©2017 J. Kenner (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

It takes one resilient woman to heal a broken man.

Wicked Dirty is a lovely story about a broken man and a woman who refuses to get beat down by life.

Although, I enjoyed the storyline, there are a few issues that keep me from giving a 5 ⭐️ rating.
First, I didn’t feel the chemistry between the characters. Second, I don’t think the title covers the story. Third, I’m unsatisfied by what happens to the ‘bad guys’ (because I don’t know what happens with them!)

Performance by Paula Hoffman is good, but not great. I prefer dual reading and I don’t think she pulled off the male parts in the book.

Not so wicked

The voice of the narrator took away from the male characters so their dialogue was not as effective but the storyline was interesting.

Sometimes I HATE being an opportunist

I wanted to like this.
I wanted to give this story every opportunity.

But combined with the weak story, terrible narrator, the authors choice to tell me instead of showing, and the awful dialogue, I feel like I lost 8 hrs of my life I can't get back.

As for the narrator, she was flat. she sounded childish with some, made other female characters sound like fragile old ladies who were supposed to be in their 20s, and there was zero difference between Lyle and Sugar's voice. I got lost several times trying to figure out who was speaking.

This was one book i should've listened to the reviews on. But as I've said, I'm an opportunist and it bit me square in the butt. *le sigh* I'll never read/listen to this author or narrator again. I lost a credit for this one and it wasnt worth it.

ARC review

For honest lyle tarpin is a actor and is starting in blue zenith as m. Sterious .sugar laine needs money and working a lot of jobs just to pay off her family home that's all she has of them . So when her best friend has a way to make quick money she jumps in and meets lyle. Awesome and beautiful story.

This narrator needs to read children's books

The story line is great, but you have to get past the narrator who often sounds like a prepubescent girl, and there is no differentiation between male and female parts, so it can be hard to follow.

Couldn't stand narrator's voice. Didn't finish

The voice narration is horrible. I tried, but I could not take her voice. Only listened to about 10 minutes.

Ok

Gotten really into this book. Then kept it waiting and waiting to come back and do some explanation also some more endept into the characters . But it was ok.

Wow

A great story with a nice plot. I enjoyed the characters and will be looking for more by J Kenner.

I can't wait...

I can't wait to listen the the rest of the story. J Kenner has got me going for 2 days now with this series!!! I love it!!!

Not my kind of book

Not too thrilled. A friend suggested it to me, but I am not really into these kind of books. I still tried to read it out of respect and to give it a try... I tried to get into the book more than once, I just couldn't. Please don't let my opinion sway you from attempting to read it if you like this author, or this genre. Happy Reading!

Really disappointing

Neither story nor narration up to the usual J Kenner standard. Stilted and unimaginative. Characters not credible. Really poor.