“Sweet Liar captivated me from start to finish! Dylan Locke is a must have in your book boyfriend collection!” Jana Aston, NYT Bestselling AuthorBritish ad exec Dylan Locke isn’t looking for love. He isn’t looking for fate. He’s definitely not looking for Audrey Lind. She’s pretty, far too young, and overly romantic–in short, exhausting.But when the girl, young enough to be his daughter, … his daughter, literally lands in his lap and asks for his expertise, he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t interested. In her body, in her innocence, in her philosophy.
In the kind of kismet that starts with kisses.
But Audrey isn’t looking for love either–she’s looking for lessons, and she’s certain Dylan knows everything she needs to learn.
If he agrees to play the teacher can he keep his heart?
Of course he can.
Then again, he might be lying.
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Admittedly, this story surprised me by being far sweeter than I was expecting it to be. That doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t any steamy shenanigans between Dylan and Audrey; it’s just that those moments are fewer than those you’d find in Laurelin Paige’s other books. I loved the connection that these two had and I appreciated that this had a lighter feel compared to the two other series and one novella in the author’s Dirty universe. The playful quality of Dylan and Audrey’s non-relationship belies just how much chemistry is swirling between them. I’m curious to see if the second book will have a more serious feel and what role, if any, Dylan’s ex-wife will play in his romance with Audrey. I’m also hoping there’ll be more of Dylan’s interactions with his son because his being a father does distinguish him even more from the other men in this book universe. With a 4.5-starred beginning in Sweet Liar, I look forward to reading Sweet Fate soon!
Sweet Liar (Dirty Sweet Duet – Book #1) Laurelin Paige.
After reading the preceding series Dirty Filthy and Dirty Sexy, this was just as absorbing.
Dylan and Audrey’s story was a little on the taboo side but definitely not unsavoury. Younger woman older man is still a very hot topic and this book definitely met that brief.
Audrey’s innocence was a beautiful foil to Dylan’s sad and resigned distaste for the notion of love and Laurelin Paige expressed both the emotional turmoil of these characters as well as the searing intensity their forbidden attraction.
Can’t wait to read the conclusion in Sweet Fate (Dirty Sweet #2).
4.5 STARS
ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.
GAHHHH WHAT DID I JUST READ?????? WHY IS IT SO CUTE AND SO HOT AT THE SAME TIME???!!!! AND WHY WAS IT SO FRICKIN SHORRRT??!!!???!!?
Oh my god, this story was totally unexpected from The Dirty Universe because C’MON.. Donovan Kincaid from Dirty Duet was not, in any way or form, CUTE okay?? He was the furthest thing from cute and I assumed that Dylan would be cut from the same cloth!!
HOW WRONG I WAS.
This set-up was rather adorable which really confuses my female hormones!!!
So.. the story follows 23-year-old Audrey Lind’s journey to, ahem, get some sexperience since she believes it’s in the sex department that all two of her relationships fell apart. Is she the problem? Are the men in her life the problem? WHO KNOWS??
Enter 42-year-old British ad exec Dylan Locke, the jaded, allergic-to-love, boss of Audrey’s sister. He’s hot, he’s cultured (UGH THAT BRITISH ACCENT), he’s a complete gentleman (and I mean that), and he’s ADORABLE.
Audrey takes one look at Dylan and her panties melt, and she immediately knows that he’s the one to give her the experience she’s looking for. On Dylan’s end, he’s quite willing to share his sexpertise with Audrey, but he’s worried that he might end up falling for the wrong person again or worse, breaking the right person’s heart.
So what I loved about this was OMG the characters were just SO CUTE OKAYY. I won’t stop saying it, THEY WERE SO CUUUUTE!!! <3 If you're expecting steam, you'll definitely get it because DUH, May-December love affairs are HOTTT (excuse me, who uses that term these days??)!!!! But more than that, this one actually had more of a story rather than just purely sexual encounters. We see the issues that the main characters struggle with, particularly with their significant age gap and fears of ending up with a broken heart. I know it's not such a terrible issue these days, but we gotta admit that a lot of people still give some pretty bad stink-eye to these kinds of relationships! It was all very simple, yet not. And the author was able to write it in a way that wasn't exhausting to read. I mean, Romance readers out there have read more than their fair share of stories with this kind of trope so we all kind of know what to expect, but with Sweet Liar I was pretty excited to experience the whole story all over again. I loved it so much!
Audrey Lind was a very enjoyable character to read. She was all rainbows and unicorns, but not in the annoying kind of way. Audrey was sweet and was just the perfect ray of sunshine in Dylan's life! I loved that she admitted her vulnerabilities at the very start, particularly with getting attached and falling in love rather quickly (this girl was able to identify with THAT pretty well *eyeroll*), instead of being all woe is me when the inevitable heartbreak happened.
Dylan Locke on the other hand.. PHEW!! SOMEONE GRAB ME A FAN, STAT!!! That man was soooo sexy, I'm not even kidding. Not because he was ripped or he had the most perfect features or that women were falling all over him (none of those were explicitly mentioned!), but because he was a total DWEEB when it came to Audrey. He was very concerned about their age gap so he tried so hard to stay away from her. In the process, he ended up acting like a shy, adorable teenager whenever Audrey was around. He also wasn't written to be a dirty old man, or maybe he was! but I didn't see it that way. Dylan was very considerate and was an actual gentleman to Audrey all the time. The only baggage that man had with him was he aversion to love and happy endings.
Now where did that .5 star go????
THE LENGTH OF THIS STORY WAS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE TO ME OKAY???? I WANTED MORE OF IT AND NOW I HAVE TO WAIT FOR BOOK 2!!!! 🙁 🙁
Otherwise, totally and completely loved the story! Such a perfect beach read and wonderful source of *kilig!!!
I CAN'T WAIT FOR BOOK 2!!!!!! GIVE IT TO US MISS PAIGE!!!!!
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*Kilig - a Filipino word that *sadly* has no English translation, but can be described as:
"Exhilaration or elation caused by an exciting or romantic experience; an instance of this, a thrill." (Oxford Dictionary)
You know that giddy feeling you get when you see your crush/SO? When he/she does something sweet or when it hits you so hard that ugh he's so cute/hot/sexy i'm so lucky etc? The feeling that makes you want to squeal everytime you see him/her? THAT'S THE ONE.
LP is one of my favorites and this is another amazing read! This is a quick read leaving you wanting more Dylan and Audrey. I can’t wait for book 2!
“It was agony. It was rapture. It was fire and ice and everything in between. And I knew— absolutely without a doubt knew— that I was in trouble.”
When you are reading a Laurelin Paige book, expect some sexy moments and unforgettable scenes that leave you breathless. When you are reading a Laurelin Paige, expect an alpha who melts your heart and a heroine who is confident and full of love for her leading man. Laurelin Paige’s book complete me. Laurelin Paige’s book consume me. Laurelin Paige’s book fill up my world with stories and characters that touch and stir up my soul. Every book she writes just makes me a happy reviewer and a happy reader. Everything she writes turns to gold. She sets a world that captures you and turn your upside down. She gives you beautiful characters that totally captivate you from beginning to end. You just cannot help but fall in love with her amazing world she creates every single time.
With dynamic and perfect writing, Sweet Liar is a first book in Dirty Sweet duet set in the Dirty Seriesl World. A world I have grown to love. Sweet Liar is passionate. Sweet Liar is sensual. Sweet Liar is sweet. Sweet Liar is dirty with a touch of brilliance. A forbidden treat with a deadly poison. An erotic and romantic story with an edgy sexiness. You are pulled into a magnificent story with exceptional writing. Tantalizing. Toe curling. Sweet Liar is delicious story with forbidden desires and red hot passion between a British ad exec and a college girl. Laurelin Paige gives you sauciness and fast paced scenes that will give you one hell of a ride.
With a magnetic pull and some tongue waging scenes, Laurelin Paige introduces to Dylan Locke, a wealthy and alpha British ad exec and Audrey Lind , a sweet and confident college coed who both bring sparks and flames in the pages. Dylan is a cynic and bitter man towards love and Audrey is lovely girl who believes in Kismet. How opposite are they? But yet they have easy going attraction that made me smile. Chemistry full of teasing and taunting I adored. Well there is saying, opposites do attract.
I am excited to read the conclusion. I cannot wait. I know it is going to be one sexy ride.
This was a short fast paced read but it certainly doesn’t take away from the punches it packs.
Dylan & Audrey are like 2 moths gathering to the same lust fueled flame
One shouldn’t be tempted & the other shouldn’t be tempting.
One click & come and join the fire that surrounds them both.
This book had me hooked from the first chapter! Dylan Locke is just as filthy as his partners! He swore off love years ago. He is a sex only kinda of guy until young Audrey Lind turns his head. He tries to stay away from her. Audrey is young and finds Dylan interesting. He tries to fight it but Audrey ropes him in. She is looking for experience and Dylan has it! Go get him Audrey! I live this book! Congratulations Laurelin on an amazing book
I think it’s a known fact that I’m a huge Laurelin Paige fan, and I’ll read anything she writes with gusto. I was extra excited for Sweet Liar because Dylan Locke and Audrey Lind are introduced in other books in the Dirty Universe (seriously, if you haven’t read those books, you’re missing out). Plus, anything with an age gap and dirty hero with an accent is my literary catnip.
Two opposites attract in this fast-paced story—older, jaded man who no longer believes in love and young, innocent woman who believes in true love and soul mates—and I found it refreshing how Audrey was the one to pursue their relationship. Go get him, girl!
This sexy little story was a quick and fun read, and I found myself yearning for more. I can’t wait for the next installment and know things will heat up further. If you’re looking for something sweet and sexy, I recommend picking this one up.
Step aside Weston, Dylan might be taking over BBF top spot. Ms. Paige did an amazing job with this story line, age gap of 19 years. The depth of emotions with Audrey’s determination and Dylan’s reluctance shows the layers of each MC character. But sometimes the stars have other ideas and throws some roadblocks in front of these two. Can fate bring them back in each other orbits or will Dylan’s past railroad any chance of happiness
Audrey Lind is visiting her older sister, Sabrina, and meets one of the executives at Sabrina’s job, Dylan Locke, during a dinner. Dylan is visiting from across the pond and he’s nearly 20 years older than Audrey and he’s British. For Audrey, she sees an opportunity she cannot pass up. Fate or kismet, she thinks. Audrey has very ideal and romanticized notions of love. Nowhere near the cynicism and disbelief of Dylan, who’s been burned and jaded. Audrey thinks she needs tutelage in seduction and intimacy and requests Dylan’s assistance. He resists her every step of the way because he knows they are wrong for each other, but Audrey manages to tempt him where he cannot ignore her. It was entertaining to see this side of Audrey, unafraid to go after what she wants while Dylan was trying to do the right thing and ignore her. So now I wonder who will be going after who in the conclusion.
Dylan and Audrey…so different, not only in age, yet they both want something and they will get what they want..
these two together are freaking explosive and I am so in love and lust with them both..
I can’t wait for more of this sexy story!
Such a sexy book! Laurelin always slays with her books and she did it once again with Sweet Liar.
We already know Dylan and Aubrey from her previous stories but boy did we got to know them more intimately. I don’t know if it was the age or the build up tension and chemistry but those two are just wau! Aubrey is a great powerful female character -she knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to ask for it! She is fierce and strong, but still very sweet. And Dylan? Should I talk more about an older alpha? How caring he is as a person? How I’m in love?
Their story is limited by time and situation their lives are at the moment. Both know what they want and expect from any sort of relationship they might have but we know things don’t go as planned.
It was very exciting story to read and I can’t wait for continuation!
Lauren Paige done it again. She wrote another addicting book that will make you wait in anticipation for the second one in this series – “Sweet fate”. IT’s once again steamy romance between two people. This time is sexy and powerful British businessman and a beautiful and starry-eyed college co-ed. We also know well Donovan Kinkaid, Weston King and Nathan Sinclair. And now it’s Dylan Locke’s turn.
Dylan Locke is a gorgeous, British bachelor and an executive with Reach Inc. He’s a wealthy businessman from London, divorced with a teenage son. He travels often to New York to see his son, and get in touch with his partners Donovan, Weston and Cade. While at a business dinner one evening he meets an employee’s younger sister who he finds intriguing. She’s extremely beautiful, but way too young for him, so he doesn’t take her interest in him seriously. Then after he decides to be nice and offers to drive her back to her home, everything changes.
Audrey Lind is a college student that’s in New York visiting her sister Sabrina during her holiday break. She meets her sisters boss, and it’s lust at first sight. He’s tall, dark, and handsome with an incredible British accent. He’s incredibly sexy, but she soon learns he’s emotionally unavailable, and a bit of a jaded cynic. They are complete opposites, but she still wants him desperately. His heart is hardened, where hers is soft. She’s unrealistically optimistic, and he’s a realist. She believed in fairytales, and was the kind of girl who wanted hearts and flowers, and he didn’t believe in forever. He’d long ago had his heart destroyed, and would never let himself be vulnerable again. She made him ask himself a very important question: where he doesn’t do relationships or anything close to it, if it was possible to ever believe in love again?
“Sweet liar” was everything I wanted from this book and definitely more. It has got – a hooking storyline, fun and relatable characters, and an amazing chemistry between those characters that’ll leave you waiting for second book. Definitely yet another great must read this month.
Audrey and Dylan!!! Couldn’t stop reading. Loved. Loved loved
Dylan is dismayed by love after being burned in the past. Audrey will make him question everything he believes and make him want so much more. Will he miss her when she is no longer by her side? Definitely a story that weaves two very different people but ultimately are better when they are together.
Sweet liar is the first part of Dirty Sweet Duet and introduces us to hot steamy romance, wrapped in a great storyline with huge age gap between main characters. This unusual relationship bonded two strongly different people who are seeking deferent style of life. But there was something what push them toward each other. It was undeniable chemistry which was out of the charts and I could feel it from the very first page of this book.
I think it was my first reading romance with huge gap of age between heroes and I can tell I loved it. All of it started with a friendly, but unusual request and became something more.
I was so curious which way author will lead the plot and how they’re going to develop their relationship.
Dylan Locke was confident and always in control british businessman. He was also very experienced in every aspect man. He loved women and knew how to pleased them but had been burned by relationship in the past and didn’t believe in love anymore.
Audrey Lind was girl in her early twenties but she was so assertive. She knew exactly what she wants and how to get it. She was Sabrina’s younger sister, but couldn’t be more different as a person. Despite young age she wasn’t naive girl but she was wild, full of energy and it was refreshing for Dylan.
You would be surprised who was pulling the strings in this sexy and little bit naughty story. But you know what they say, in love and at the war all bets are off.
I’m waiting impatiently for the conclusion of their story in Sweet Fate.
My great adventure with Dirty Universe by Laurelin Paige started long time ago, with her first Dirty Duet and from now on I love every story and each main character she created. If you have read previous stories from that series, you will be pleased to get back there and met old friends. Donovan, Weston, Nathan and finally Dylan. All of them were bring unique story with strong heroines which you gonna fall in love as much as I did.
This was a quick read but it was full of fire and sass and I was drawn in almost from the beginning!! I love the chemistry between Audrey and Dylan. I also like the contrast between the two of them and their beliefs in love. I definitely want to go back and read more of her books and find out the entire stories behind the other men I met in this book. If you want a quick and hawt book then this is definitely the book for you!!! – By Tina
I always know when I pick up a Laurelin Paige book I am going to love it! She is one of my go to authors. Her stories are always so unique and gave me turning the pages as fast as I can.
Dylan is dreamy with a sexy accent and works as an ad exec. He is a divorce’ and travels to and from New York for work. He never expected to meet someone like Audrey.
Audrey is visiting her sister in New York and meets her boss. They are nothing alike and she knows he’s not emotionally available.
This story was addicting and I loved every minute of it!
What’s not to love about a sexy older man (British to boot) who doesn’t believe in love and a younger (by 19 years) adorable woman who does. Audrey Lind is out to prove to Dylan Locke that kismet really does exist and maybe learn a thing or two about ‘love’ along the way as she works her way into his thoughts and possibly his heart. Let’s face it he’s got the experience and although he might be a little jaded by life and love and all that has gone before (yes his ex-wife makes an appearance) he can’t help but be captivated by Audrey’s youth and enthusiasm and it’s not long before he finds himself up close and personal with her. Will Audrey capture Dylan’s heart? Well, I guess we’ll have to wait for Sweet Fate to find out. Laurelin Paige once again keeps us invested in their story with her usual toe tingling times. It’s flirty, sexy, witty and intriguing and has you waiting not so patiently for the conclusion of their story……waiting…..waiting…..waiting…..