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Down and Dirty by Mari Carr

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tabithas's review

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emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

greysun69's review

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funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5⭐️
⚠️TW:
Abandonment (mention)
Attempted Sexual Assault
Assault/Battery
Light Bondage
Impact Play
Homelessness
Anal play/DP

💭 Random points and thoughts:
👍🏾Safe sex practices
👍🏾Established consent and safe word
👍🏾I love a healthy age gap (24- 34/38)
👍🏾Realistic displays of financial hardship for the heroine.
👍🏾the guys were helpful. Reese was sweet and supportive and his secret side is HAWT 👍🏾Jess was independent, hardworking and self-aware of the effects of her insecurities on her kid
👍🏾Jasper was a kid who behaved like a kid, and not an alien in a kid body.
👍🏾Some sexual chemistry and the sex scenes were fun to read.
👍🏾Aunt Berta is my FAVORITE!
🫳🏾Tony had heavy-handed caveman energy and thats not really my thing but for the people it works for, it works.
🫳🏾Miscommunication tropes can be good depending on how it is executed and this one felt tedious for me.
👎🏾There was no dates or any reason for me to buy them as a thrupple. I don’t even care about them as couples. I feel like they could have benefited from not living together a few months and dating separately. That would have been fun to read and would have made buying them all together easier.
👎🏾 Reese and Tony had a tendency of making decisions about Jess without Jess’ involvement
👎🏾 Jess acted like her moving out of the apartment meant that Jasper would never see anybody ever again. That was dumb.
👎🏾Jess masturbating in bed next to her kid

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merlinsmom's review

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5.0

Spicy!

herasrevenge88's review

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medium-paced

3.0

noblekat's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Amazing story with a nice paced burn into spice. Actually a bit more believable than most insta love stories.

sicreads's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was my first reading of a published polyamorous book and I loved it! I would want to read more of these types of books. It was informative for me since I don’t have a ton of information in this field. I really liked the plot.

It was a bit fast for her to move in but non the less still liked it.

This was a easy going read and encourages me to read more like this. The charcter dynamics were great!

I wish we got more time with them with her son at the end of the book.