Dirty Laundry (Tucker Springs, #3) in Riptide Publishing

Jan 30, 2013 Debra ~~ seriously slacking on her reviews ~~ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: m-m, mental-health-brain-disorders, part-of-series-or-serial, favorites, bdsm, age-gap, talk-dirty-to-me

This book was so much more than I expected coming from the description. While I have read Second Hand (TS #2), this book was in a different league (note that this can be read stand alone).

We are briefly introduced to Denver in Second Hand as El's best friend and the heavily muscled bouncer at the local gay club who enjoys the benefits of that job, all the twinks and college boys he wants. He encounters Adam at the laundromat, and intervenes as Adam is being harassed by a group of drunken frat b ...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Trish rated it liked it

Shelves: m-m, erotic, bdsm

I liked the story but didn't love it. Writing was good.

It started out strong (is there such a laundromat that exists :P) and I thought we would get a pretty intense story but it didn't feel that way in the end.

I'm not well versed in OCD personally but it seemed Adam's illnesses were all over the place and I just couldn't keep them all straight. It threw me out of the story. I'm not saying there aren't OCD sufferers with multiple issues, but for a book, maybe less OCDs would have been easier for ...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Evaine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, e-books, m-m, bdsm, kinky

I LOVED this book!

One of the clichés of love stories is the "I'm a better me when I'm with you." and in so many cases we never see evidence of it other than the characters say so. In Dirty Laundry we DO see it. We see the first seeds get planted, so to speak, in the laundromat and we get to see the seedling push through the ground in the bar, the leaves unfurl and the stem grow strong in the various other places around Tucker Springs as Adam and Denver navigate the mine fields of... well... the ...more

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Mar 03, 2013 Elisa Rolle rated it it was amazing

2013 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)

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Oct 10, 2012 Alex added it

Shelves: romance, bdsm, contemporary, riptide

Overall
Sexy kink with tons of psychology and mental health issues, and all well handled. Maybe it’s the concussion talking, but this was a winner!

Note: I normally don’t review Riptide books because of conflict of interest (and I usually read them for work-related duties). I had nothing to do with this one (since I was concussed and out of work), and I’m not rating it (because it’s unfair). However, this was the first new book I read after my concussion, still during my recovery period, and I’m o Overall
Sexy kink with tons of psychology and mental health issues, and all well handled. Maybe it’s the concussion talking, but this was a winner!

Note: I normally don’t review Riptide books because of conflict of interest (and I usually read them for work-related duties). I had nothing to do with this one (since I was concussed and out of work), and I’m not rating it (because it’s unfair). However, this was the first new book I read after my concussion, still during my recovery period, and I’m otherwise lacking reviews.

Review
Since my car accident and concussion, I was scared of returning to reading and reviewing, afraid I couldn’t give an honest, unbiased review after my brain hurty. This was the first new book I picked up after the accident and it eased me into reading new content and reviewing.

I really had no idea what to expect from this story, aside from my previous experience with Denver (in Second Hand) and the blurb that told me kink and laundry were happening. I was too out of it (due to said concussion) to really go in with any expectations, which I think worked in my favor. It was a wonderful surprise.

The characters are sweet, but super sexy, especially in the beginning when we get the heaviest hitting kink. What’s really awesome with the kink is the reader doesn’t just get sexy-time, but gets to really see inside their heads (especially Adam’s) to understand what is working so very well in the situation. But the scenes also balance out not just being about Adam’s emotions and they become the erotic explosion that they are meant to be.

The story being told isn’t incredibly complex, but it is a gigantic character study. Which as you know totally gets me hot and bothered when reading ;) Adam has his issues, Denver has his, and they both have friends who are incredibly understanding, mainly because they have worked through (or are working through) their own issues. Seeing the progression of these two men and their friends is just heartbreaking and heartwarming.

Be forewarned, that while this is a well-paced novel, the front half has more sexy sex than the latter half, which was the only slightly jarring part about it. But the reasons for this are good and necessary, so it’s not bad, but some readers may want to know ahead of time. Otherwise, I definitely recommend picking this one up for a read, especially for those who like kink and psychology.

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Jan 26, 2013 Dee Wy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: bdsm, m-m, m-m-contemporary, disability-illness

Man oh man, Heidi! I think you wrote this one just for me. You are so good at writing emotionally challenged characters, the kind I can emphathize with so thoroughly and love to pieces. In this story you gave me TWO such characters, though Adam seems to face a much larger challenge than Denver.

Reading the blurb, a reader might think that meeting in a laundromat is kind of icky, but Adam and Denver turn it into a very erotic scene that leaves both of them unable to forget the encounter afterwards ...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Didi rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, m-m, series

I felt for Adam for all of his anxieties and ever present inner bully. It's great that he had Denver, Louisa, and - later on - Sig on his side. And if only I could get ahold of bloody Brad's neck and choked him...
Anyways, my only hurdle with this book was the bdsm scenes, light though they were. They built the stories though, for which I plough through reading. It's beautiful how both Adam and Denver took care of each others' weaknesses, and it's just like what stated in the blurb: The course ...more

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