{"id":5437,"date":"2015-06-21T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T05:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allthethingsinbetween.net\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2015-06-21T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T05:19:03","slug":"tongue-wagger-dirty-ties-by-pam-godwin-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/21\/tongue-wagger-dirty-ties-by-pam-godwin-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongue Wagger – Dirty Ties by Pam Godwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDir-tay, dir-tay, this book was dir-tay!<\/p>\n

Finally a woman who expresses her appreciation for a nice manly ass!
\nYes, because Kaci couldn\u2019t seem to be able to shut up about the Evader\u2019s butt and I could virtually see a toned and firm ass before my inner eye the whole time I was reading Dirty Ties\u2026 needless to say that I liked what I saw, because it was my idea of the perfect ass and I only allow things I like to invade my fantasy-pervy-time.
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Now, you know how men go full on squirrel nuts about bikes?
\nWell, women do too, especially if there\u2019s a haaawt dude on top of it.
\nMan like cars and bikes with half naked women straddling or spread on a hood like peanut butter and jelly on bread, women like a man driving a big ass noisy bike while clad in sexy smexy leathers.
\nWe aren\u2019t as shallow as you, boys!
\nWe like them dressed\u2026at least at first.<\/p>\n

*singing* Bikes, gimme bikes, men on bikes, men on bikes, gimme gimme men on bikes!<\/p>\n

Though, I gotta ask: in how many different ways can a man straddle a bike?
\nKaci went on and on about how any woman would like to be the Evader\u2019s bike because of how he straddled it.
\nHow does he straddle his bike?
\nWhat does that even mean, straddling a bike in a sexy way?
\nIf you know, please draw me a picture, because I can\u2019t get it right in my head, no matter how hard I try.
\nObviously he has to face ahead, otherwise he would kiss the asphalt as soon as he gets the engine running, and I doubt that could be considered sexy\u2026
\nAside from that, I am clueless.
\nWhat I got was that clearly Kaci\u2019s aspiration in life is to be a bike and she wants to get it on with the Evader who has a nice, drool worthy ass.
\nThis is Kaci\u2019s mantra:
\n\u201cThe Evader has a fuuuntastic ass\u201d.\u201dI want him to straddle me like I was his bike\u201d.
\n\u201cI wanna have sex with him\u201d.
\n\u201cI\u2019m getting my rocks off thinking about this leather-clad ass, yep yep\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was all ass and bikes, so there was a sexy vibe to the whole of it from first to last word\u2026<\/p>\n

Right away, Dirty Ties proofed to be true to its title, because, as I said, this book was downright dir-tay from the very start.
\nMe likey likey!<\/p>\n

First chapter: delicious serving of menage a trois. Oh yeah!<\/p>\n

Sex right away isn\u2019t always a good choice. I\u2019m talking books, I won\u2019t be sharing\"\"<\/a>\u00a0my opinions on one-nightstands or sexual behaviour whatsoever.
\nSex in the first chapter could make a book slutty (yeah, that\u2019s totally a thing) and we \u2013 at least I \u2013 do not always want a novel to be blatantly sexual right away \u2013 that\u2019s what porns are for\u2026 or an Erotic novella.
\nIf we have a novel before us, we \u2013 again, at least I do \u2013 want a story as main course with (a lot a lot a lot) of sex as side dish, not a whole meal of sex with the story making a brief appearance as dessert.
\nI don\u2019t know how you eat your dessert, but if it\u2019s chocolate or strawberry based I wolf it down asking for seconds, and then my tummy aches badly. Too much at once, too little healthy food to counterbalance my indulgences. I don\u2019t know if you get my point.<\/p>\n

You see how the menage a trois between husband and wife and the photographer\/boyfriend of the husband could have been a huge flop.
\nCould have but wasn\u2019t.
\nIt actually had a pertinent purpose in the storyline.<\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t understand\/like was the active presence of the (gay) husband \u2013 the name\u2019s Collin \u2013 while Kaci was masturbating\u2026
\nI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a technical sexual term when you are being assisted with a dildo by your gay BFF\/husband while talking dirty about another guy but I\u2019ll go with weeeird!<\/p>\n

Main theme was revenge.
\nGood call there.
\nRevenge is always a good theme.
\nShakespeare went with it up and down the road, The Count of Montecristo and The Great Gatsby were kickass revenge based book (\u201ckickass\u201d is a term here loosely applied), Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy had huge success because of the Hamlet theme. Oh, and The Gypsy Brothers by Lili St. Germain! I could go on and on, but I won\u2019t.
\nRevenge (in Dirty Ties) comes with shipments of misunderstandings, betrayals, face slaps (though I thought Kaci would go with spanking Logan\u2019s tight ass \u2013 I\u2019d have appreciated it), snakes on the desk, blueballs, middle fingers, angry sex, and wild make-up sex.
\nIn other words: a whole lotta action.<\/p>\n

Ah, revenge, serve it cold and in abundance!<\/p>\n

Another thing I don\u2019t get, though, is how (almost) always the character who started out hellbent on revenge ends up giving up his\/her plans because of his\/her love interest. Yeah, love overcomes everything, it\u2019s stronger, more important than revenge\u2026 but what the heck!?
\nA lifetime of scheming, plotting, obsessing over something and then they get heart-eyed Looney Tunes style and all was for nothing.<\/p>\n

Admit it, book character, you didn\u2019t really want revenge! You just didn\u2019t know what to do with yourself, so you grasped at straws.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I appreciated Dirty Ties: Logan does not give up on his plan.
\nThere are options\u00a01, 2, and 3, but for Kaci (or because she sorta blackmailed him into it) he makes an option 4: grab your revenge with just one hand, the girl with the other.
\nShe\u2019s happy, he\u2019s happy.
\nI\u2019m happy, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not always all or nothing.
\nThe balance is in the middle.<\/p>\n

However, for my tastes Logan and Kaci went on too well together. There wasn\u2019t that many hate action in this hate-turns-to-love story, sorta like Ainsley Booth\u2019s Hate F*@ck of the misguiding title.
\nWhat you get?
\nF*@ck, lotsa!
\nHate? Not so much.<\/p>\n

They went straight to the honeymoon phase: he fucked up, she dumped slithering animals in his office, she teased him, fast forward to four weeks later: make-up sex.<\/p>\n

I wanted to read about those uncomfortable four weeks!
\nRead about the building tension between them. Show me how much they hated to love and loved to hate the other!<\/p>\n

I wanted to feel more of Logan\u2019s rage.
\nYeah, I know it wasn\u2019t directed towards Kaci, but I wanted him to be a bit more\u2026 narrow minded? Determined?
\nI wanted him to see more red and less rationally.<\/p>\n

The Logan I wanted to see: \u201cSo, Kaci isn\u2019t responsible for my misery? F**k it! I\u2019ll make her miserable anyway, because misery always needs company\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Logan I got: \u201cOh, she\u2019s innocent. I will kill everybody but her because I drooled after her for nine months only because she seemed to drool after me and I loooove her. You know what, I won\u2019t even kill them, that would make her unhappy\u201d.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the word?
\nOh yeah, pussy-whipped!<\/p>\n

A bit more conflict would have made Dirty Ties PERFECT.
\nIt was about revenge, after all!
\nYes yes, I am a very belligerent person.
\nI like conflict, I need it, especially if it\u2019s other people who get the ass-whooping.<\/p>\n

Final verdict?
\nI very much enjoyed Dirty Ties and I am absolutely satisfied with the dir-tay bits and the whole story, even tough there were some cheesy lines in here.
\nI won\u2019t give you examples because you might find those lines cute and lovely and you might think of me as a Love Grinch with a black and withered heart who can\u2019t appreciate the finer things in life such as cheesy lines only I think of as cheesy\u2026<\/p>\n

I hate cheesy lines.
\nI hate when the \u201cI love you\u201ds fly on first encounter as if there was a sale at Walmart.
\nI hate instant-love Twilight-imprinting style.<\/p>\n

Dirty Ties only had a few Gorgonzola sentences, Kaci and Logan didn\u2019t exactly fall in love right away, and there were only 4-6 well-placed \u201cI love yous\u201ds in the whole novel, so it doesn\u2019t fall into the category of books I roll my eyes at while reading.<\/p>\n

It was fast-paced, gripping, shrouded in mystery and with quite a few twists and turns I think you will enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Dirty Ties Synopsis:\"24359128\"
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Revenge.
\nI race to finance it.
\nI evade to protect it.
\nI kill to attain it.
\nI planned everything.<\/p>\n

Except her.
\nThe alluring, curvaceous blonde at the finish line.
\nWith sapphire eyes that cheat and lie.
\nWhose powerful family murdered mine.<\/p>\n

I hate her.
\nI want her.<\/p>\n

I know she\u2019s hiding something.
\nBut so am I.<\/p>\n

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The ache between my legs throbbed, intensely and obsessively. Sometimes I didn\u2019t think about him for hours, not the fluidity of his leather-wrapped body crouched on his sportbike or the strength of his hands around the grips. Often, I went an entire day without mentally tracing the muscle definition in his shoulders and thighs, imagining the flex of his ass, the thrust of his hips.<\/p>\n

Today hadn\u2019t been one of those days.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d tried to confine my thoughts to merger proposals, senior staffing issues, and all the other initiatives that demanded attention under my leadership. But he was always present, fighting and twisting and charging into my mind, riding on his steel horse, and carrying my body beyond the edge of restless desire.<\/p>\n

A man I\u2019d never met.<\/p>\n

Gah! Where was my damned dignity? I shut down the tablet displaying the new photos of him and returned it to my leather satchel. Who would\u2019ve thought Chicago\u2019s favorite criminal would be spotted at a grocery store? Somehow, it made him more human. The media seemed to agree, buzzing excitedly about his public appearance on local television and papers. I didn\u2019t like that, didn\u2019t like sharing him with four million women.<\/p>\n

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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Pam Godwin, lives in the Midwest with her husband, their two children, and a foulmouthed parrot. When she ran away, she traveled fourteen countries across five continents, attended three universities, and married the vocalist of her favorite rock band.<\/p>\n

Java, tobacco, and dark romance novels are her favorite indulgences, and might be considered more unhealthy than her aversion to sleeping, eating meat, and dolls with blinking eyes.<\/p>\n

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