Book Review
Title: Pretty, Dark and Dirty by Margot Scott
Genre: Dark, Erotic, Romance
Rating: 4 Stars
I didn’t know anything about Pretty, Dark and Dirty before getting into it but I love a good taboo romance and this was recommended for fans of Forbidden by Seven Rue which I really enjoyed so I picked it up. We are introduced to Jett, whose father, Mason Black left when she was 12 years only, now 18 she goes looking for Mason which isn’t hard as he is quite a famous artist and she meets up with him intending to spend the summer in New York anyway. The real reason Jett is reconnecting with Mason is because her mother told her that Mason wasn’t her biological father and she believes that he might have some information on who her real father is. Mason does seem to know but he can’t tell Jett who it is and he advises her that something are better left in the past and her father is one of them.
Since it has been six years since the pair saw each other they are beginning to see each other as people rather than father and daughter but nothing comes of it until Mason’s model for his latest piece comes down with the flu and Jett offers to take her place being an artist herself and Mason allows it but the piece is rather sexual in nature. The pair get through the session but when Jett catches Mason masturbating that night she is beginning to see him in a way she shouldn’t as he raised her but she can’t help it. The relationship is stalled by her mother who knows she is with Mason and she is bringing up something in his past to prevent him from making a move on Jett. Jett is the one to make the first move which was refreshing because we don’t see it often and because she is also a virgin but not unexperienced.
The pair end up getting into a relationship but they have to keep it a secret because everyone thinks she is his biological daughter and Mason is unsure about whether her real father is still alive as he is a very bad person and he doesn’t want that man to find Jett. After her mother comes to visit and finds out about their relationship she confesses to Jett, that Mason isn’t her biological father but her grandfather is. It turns out her mother was sexually abused by her father for years and when she found out she was pregnant Mason helped her escape and raised the child as his own and they agreed to keep it a secret from Jett for good reason. However, there is more to this and her mother sent Mason away because she believes him to be like her own father when Mason was actually just expressing his love for Jett as his child in the only way he knew how, through his art. Jett explains to her mother that they love each other and she leaves them alone although she is clearly unhappy with the situation.
Mason does get a DNA test done as Jett’s mother has lied to them both before but Jett decides she doesn’t need to know what the results are because either way she loved Mason and wants to be with him. The first sex scene was beautiful as it comes from a place of vulnerability for both Jett and Mason as Jett doesn’t want Mason to view himself as a monster and Mason doesn’t want to feel like one but everything is beautifully written and presented well. At the end we see Mason exhibit the drawing of Jett from when she was little and she feels how much he loves her through them and here he proposes to her which is shocking for the other people there as they are still under the impression that Mason is Jett’s father. I only rated this a four star because I would have liked more background with the grandfather, rather than him already being dead and been dead for most of Jett’s life maybe it would have been a bit more exciting if he was alive and tried to get Jett only to be proven through a DNA as her father and grandfather resulting in him going to prison for abusing his daughter as that would have felt like more closure for both Jett and her mother than him simply being dead but I did really enjoy Pretty, Dark and Dirty.
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