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Dirty Girls on Top | 
enlarge | Author: Alisa Valdes-rodriguez Publisher: St. Martin's Press Category: Book
List Price: $24.95 Buy New: $14.06 You Save: $10.89 (44%)
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Rating: 10 reviews Sales Rank: 31028
Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 336 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 031234967X Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780312349677 ASIN: 031234967X
Publication Date: July 8, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20080828211842T
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The Dirty Girls are back, saucier and sexier than ever….but would it be wrong to ask them to be a little smarter, too?? Especially when it comes to men. And sex. Lauren Fernandez is at the top of her game as the cleverest columnist the Boston Gazette has on board—but she can't quite figure out how to pick a guy or how to eat (and not drink) like a healthy person. Usnavys is still sashaying all over town, 260 pounds of her dolled up in designer duds and ready for action—from anyone except her husband Juan, that is. He’s become just a bit boring staying home scrubbing the tub and cooking up chicken fingers for pre-schooler Carolina while somebody else brings home the bacon. Maybe the other Dirty Girls could help Lauren and ‘navy out, but they've got their own messes to deal with: Rebecca Baca hasn't gained a pound since college (well, who would, if they had an ounce of self-control?) but suspects her picture-perfect marriage may not yield the baby she longs for; Sara may be the star of her own decorating show on cable television, but her dangerous pull toward her ex-husband Roberto isn't so pretty; Amber keeps renaming herself and doesn't want to hear that her soulfulness and reinvention aren't enough to make fans actually buy her music; and Elizabeth is discovering that a relationship with another woman takes more than bravery and a nesting instinct. Dirty Girls on Top is about trying to figure it all out without quite as much time left as there was five years ago. And it’s about sex and love—getting it, not getting it, yearning for it, having it with the wrong person, fighting it from the right person, trying it a new way, giving up on it. And, in the end, if your fingers are crossed and the planets are in alignment, having it come out just the way it should.
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Dirty Girls... August 9, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This one was an easy read but it was predictable and almost a little obscene. If you're into telenovelas and that type of stuff you'll enjoy it. And even though I think she tried to tackle some important topics that relate to women, especially Latinas, it really just fell short for me.
Her first book is by far her best!
Great Sequel! August 5, 2008 0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read the Dirty Girls Social Club several years back, and re-read it in anticipation of this sequel. I found this to be a satisfactory follow-up. Like others have stated, this does have a lot of graphic sex, so if that is an issue for you, this is not your book. Also, I did find the relationship between the sucias to be more strained, but I can appreciate maintaining old friendships, even where it seems as though you have outgrown them. My only major complaint is that some characters seem to have made no progress from the end of the last book - they definitely did by the end of Dirty Girls on Top, but it was a little disappointing to see them in the same place four years later. I would recommend this book if you have read the first one - if you have not read it, then read and then read this! You really cannot appreciate Dirty Girls on Top without the deeper understanding of the characters that Dirty Girls Social Club provides.
Save your time and money August 3, 2008 7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I struggled to make my way through Dirty Girls on Top and only finished through sheer force of will. The characters are very undeveloped and there was little plot of which to speak. It took me a least a hundred pages to begin to differentiate between the six main characters (I still got Sara and Rebecca confused at the end of the book). There were a lot of sex scenes, all of which were uncomfortable and awkward. The constant dropping of mall brands got to be comical by the end of the book, as did the strange lectures on Hispanic identity politics liberally sprinkled throughout the narrative. My favorite was the part where one character lectures another about human sacrifice in different world cultures as an attempt to minimize Aztec mass killings. The passage concluded with the two copulating at an Aztec pyramid. Oy.
They're Baaaack July 29, 2008 1 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a big fan of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez - I've read all her books and follow her blog(s) religiously - I have to say I was Not disappointed in the new book. I loved catching up with the sucias again. Plenty of action, drama, trauma and hot dirty sex along with a dab of insight and karmic retribution. What more could you ask for in a guilty pleasure?
Dirty Girls on Top July 29, 2008 5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Dirty Girls on Top fails in comparison to Alisa's first book. The "sucias" are simply pathetic and I was annoyed at the characters most of the time while reading it. It's just an ok book.
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