“It was fantastic! This story is so intense I dreamt about it last night. #amazing #TopReadof2018”- Reviewer Jean Siska They said write what you know so that’s what I did. I wrote dirty, I wrote erotic, I wrote the truth.And then they called me a liar. But it’s not me who’s lying, it’s them.Our story isn’t for everyone. It’s not even for us.So if you’re looking for the fairy tale and the stupid … looking for the fairy tale and the stupid prince on his dumb white horse, move along. You’ve got a hold of the wrong book. This is not your story, this is not your life, and this is not your opportunity to dip your frightened little toe into the dark pool of water and “try new things” and then pull it out and decide… #NotForMe.
When you go in with us you go all in. So make a decision before you turn this page.
Because I’m making one promise with this book.
Just one.
We are The Dirty Ones and this is our truth.
The Dirty Ones is a brand new, thrilling, standalone romance about the secret world of erotica authors by New York Times bestselling author, JA Huss.
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What the hell did I just read? Seriously, what on earth was that? Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a bad thing. This is truly a WTF moment. I never ever saw that end coming. Holy mother of twists!
Mind.
Blown.
“They said write what you know so that’s what I did. I wrote dirty, I wrote erotic, I wrote the truth.
And then they called me a liar. But it’s not me who’s lying, it’s them.”
This was a delicious, dirty, twisted read that blew me away. A story of past and present friendships, love, betrayal, bestselling books, intrigue and some very sexy times.
You had me at page one. With the turn of each page I was sucked in further.
The Dirty Ones. Their past now intersects their present and threatens their future. The past replays behind closed doors! But things get more confusing and you question what is real.
Just when I thought I had it figured out… Someone is pulling the strings and it’s not just who I thought. The details and memories are being revealed and there is a laundry list of horrors. The “who dunnit” was unexpected and the lengths they went to to play puppeteer to a group of college students and then conceal it for over a decade was shocking!
Well done!
ok read
So good! Absolute page turner! So many twists & turns! Kept me on edge of my seat! Never read anything like it! Five stars!! I highly recommend!! Loved it!!
5 Stars
Reviewed by Allyson
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“Memory is an unreliable thing.”
Anticipation of ups and downs, twists and turns that transpire into gaping mouth moments with a thousand shock value in The Dirty Ones by JA Huss!
This novel spoke to me in ways I can’t even fathom putting into words for others to read, it’s that good. I, myself love the “messy, tangled” dark romances. The ones that make you cringe but ultimately give you the HEA in the end. And with The Dirty Ones, Huss delivered! She spoke to me with the fiction she created. With reading in between the lines, she put her soul as an author into this novel and I commend her for this. There are phrases that as a die-hard romance genre fan, really resonated with me and for that… 5+ Stars!
“Because the dark side of love intrigues people.”
At times I wondered, “is this the Clue version in book form?” A mind numbing read that will have you scratching your head at points wondering ‘what the?’
Can a book really dictate your future holdings? Turning your world upside down, even a decade later? When seven individuals are reunited they relive the Dirty Years, for good or for bad. Will it change the course of their future?
“That stupid book. Everything was fine until that book showed up and everything is not.”
Huss knows how to embrace and add an abundance of steam to the intimate, delicate and erotic scenes within these pages. I highly suggest you don’t just graze through Amazon looking for your next romantic fix, The Dirty Ones is your next one-click, Epic novel for sure!!
Julie’s writing just blows me away. I can count on her to have a complicated storyline, and I just hang on for the ride knowing that it will all make sense in the end and be another phenomenal book. This one is no exception. I don’t want to give anything away, just know that this is a great story written by an amazing storyteller.
I needed a frickin buddy system to get through this book! It’s taken me a few days to write this because the first read was done at such a fast pace because I just needed to know WTF was going on! The second read through was done at my leisure so I could pay more attention. I was enthralled by the suspense and the mystery and the twists!! And of course, the sexy pile of sweaty bodies x6 always helps things. This book reminds me of old school Huss and I loved every minute of it!!
Wowza! That was some twisty, suspenseful, and steamy goodness! Huss is a master of the mind f*ck and she outdid herself with The Dirty Ones ! I was off in completely wrong directions quite often as I followed the clues. I was shocked, confused, aroused, happy and sad and happy again. I don’t love everything Huss writes but she always entertains me to the point I’m curious to see what she’ll come up with next. With The Dirty Ones I was ultimately left very satisfied. 😀
What you do in college stays in college or so is the saying but we are about to find out differently. It’s senior year of college and it’s time to let loose and do some things that they normally wouldn’t do. They have partied and they have done some dumb things but it’s time to do some seriously risky things and keep it between themselves. But you know the saying what happens in the dark always comes to light and after a decade of secrecy one of them is publishing a tell all about the things they got into over a decade ago.
No one knows who it is or why they are deciding to dredge up old things that happened in college but the person is and now all who were involved are left to wonder what will happen to them and their families once things come out. Can they find out who is revealing all to stop them in time or will the house of cards come crashing down on them?
This is a MUST read book that will have you on the edge of your seat wondering who the person is and why they are deciding after all this time to tell all. J.A. you totally BLEW my mind! Mindfuckey at it’s finest!
The Dirty Ones is a tale of seven college friends that is filled with lust, lies, deceit, mystery and a wow finish that I never saw coming. I am still trying to process all of the information . They were thrown together many years ago in college. They witnessed and experienced so many things together but now years later a book surfaces and when they are trying to put the pieces together everything is so blurry. Each character remembers the past differently and their are so many mysteries and secrets. What they do all remember is the very erotic things that they have shared . Get ready for a wild ride that last right till the end!!!!
~~Michele McMullen ~~
Intense, suspenseful, erotic. That’s what this book gives you. It is an incredible read. You will be blown away with this story. Do yourself a favor and read this now!
Julie has done it again with her world wind of suspense and sexy ways. After ten years later games continue with a book being written with more twist and turns. A must read for sure.
I LOVED this book from beginning to the end!!! It had me guessing every minute, and I could not put it down until I got to the end. Stories like these are the reason I LOVE JA!!! She never disappoints!!!
Loved it!
This book is a mind weaving story. My favorite and just when you think you know, you don’t! I loved it.
3.5 stars
JA Huss has long been one of my one-click, go to authors, and while I liked The Dirty Ones I didn’t love it.
As always, the characters are interesting and there’s that twist that always gets you in the end, but this one wasn’t quite my cup of tea, maybe because of some of the events surrounding the characters, I’m not really sure, but as always this is my opinion and your decision to read shouldn’t be swayed because of it.
OMG Another amazing read that had me glued to my kindle. This story had twists & turns and had me guessing, who exactly wrote The Dirty Ones. Love the characters, love the story which is no shocker since I FLOVE every book JA has written. This book is definitely a MUST READ.
I think the best way to describe this book is COOL. I lost sleep over the story of The Dirty Ones. Even the blurb really doesn’t prepare you for what unfolds. It’s unexpected, and not in the usual ways where there’s a little twist. I was straight up captivated and pulled in. These characters are complex and real, the story is confusing. It flows so well that it seems wrong to stop reading before the end. This is my first book I’ve ever read by J.A. Huss and I’m sure I couldn’t have picked a better one. I’m not telling you anything more, you have to discover the dirty truth on your own.
After a frolic and detour into the land of RomCon, the Mistress of Twisty is back with a vengeance! The Dirty Ones is fan-freaking tastic!!! It is, far and away, her best work yet!!
Kiera puts the town in “town and gown”. A scholarship student at Essex College, a tiny, elite school for the ultra-rich and privileged. She’s still living in the shadow of campus when her past shows up on her doorstep ten years later. A past in the form of Conner, the kinky, sexy golden boy of Essex College who has explosive best seller that exposes the secrets of The Dirty Ones, a group of Essex College seniors that included Kiera and Conner, in hand. A best seller that he is convinced that Kiera, the darling of indie erotica, penned.
Things quickly spin out of control as the they tend to do in the Huss universe as the past refuses to stay buried. Huss thrusts the reader through the looking glass into a past full of hedonistic sex, deception, Gatsbyesque wealth and decadence. It’s equal parts malevolent fun house and fever dream as the reunited friends are captured in a web of manipulation and betrayal worthy of Agatha Christie. But there’s also an almost fairy tale sense of love, longing and regret as The Dirty Ones rediscover what they meant to one another.
Clever is a word for describing parlour tricks. This story is so enveloping and engaging it defies description. Just know that it is ferociously seductive, with a crackling, overwhelming pace that makes it unputdownable. It was so intense that I dreamt about it last night. Stories like this are the reason I fell in love with the written word.
Every star I’m allowed to give.
#TopReadof2018
#sendbourbonandbatteries
#amazing
This book is the reason I always look forward to a JA Huss book. JA Huss is one of the few authors who knows how to write a ridiculously twisted story, leaving you in the dark, wandering, thinking every possible scenario only to be completely thrown in the end. I love that- I love the suspense and the thrill of being lost but knowing the end is worth it.
I absolutely adored this story and the characters. I found that once I was into the bulk of the story, I didn’t want to put it down. The writing was terrific and the build was unbelievable.
With that being said, even though I loved the chase and I was totally turned by the ending, if felt sort of anticlimactic to me for some reason. The build was great but the ending just didn’t feel as big as the build to me.
Overall, I would definitely do a reread to try to catch all the little details that I may have missed the first time.