Dirty Girls on Top

by Alisa Valdes and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031234967X
• ISBN13: 9780312349677
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

I always take a book when i go on vacation. I read the first part of the dirty girls and this book just continues the lives of the girls it was great i couldn't put the book down. I hope she makes another book with the girls. I reccomended it to all my latina friends i tell them that it's like sex in the city but with latinas which i loved.

Dynamic Dirty Girls

I anxiously waited for this novel to be released. It exceeded my expectations. I love Alisa's detailed descriptions, from the resort in New Mexico, to the tapas in Harvard square, the book kept me salivating. Don't read on an empty stomach. Alisa's characters have 6 distinct voices and personalities.

Couldn't wait to read this book

I couldn't wait to start the book and wasn't disappointed. One thing I love about Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is the way she describes a character's thoughts. She can capture ordinary, typical thoughts similar to my own and get them down on paper so accurately and so eloquently. She did this throughout the book and that made it easy to identify with the characters. What goes through your head when you see someone, hear conversations, feel insecure, etc. is captured so realistically. The 6 women had changed some since the first book but not so much that you didn't recognize them and not so little that you didn't have to learn some new things about them. Other reviewers questioned how they were still friends, but it was understandable to me because I have friends that I have grown away from but we get back together because the strength of the original bond draws us back together and makes us want to renew our friendship and find out what's happened since the last time we saw each other. I really enjoyed the descriptions of New Mexico and have been to that same resort and could picture everything exactly! I loved each character and really enjoyed this fun read.

They're Baaaack

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 in Top Form

The sucias are back and that's a good thing even though their lives are even more complicated and dramatic from when we last saw them five years ago. But that's why these Latina professionals have each other. They can handle anything that comes their way, even a homicidal ex-husband, which adds to the fun literary ride that Valdes-Rodriguez takes the reader on. As in their tradition, Valdes-Rodriguez opens the book as the women embark on meeting up at a resort in New Mexico for the annual sucias gathering. Here they catch up on and dish about what has been going in their lives. Well, almost. Some of the sucias don't immediately reveal their secrets. Usnavys: She's still hoochie but that is what endeared her to her readers. She's strong, real, and tells it like it is. She's still a leader in the Boston community working with the United Way and she likes to show off the goods that God, Puerto Rico and her credit line have given her. This Latina bombshell even has a blog about being sexy. But underneath her thick tough exterior is una mujer who wants to feel like a doted and desired woman with her husband Juan, who has opted to stay at home to raise their daughter while Usnavys works. UsNavys yearns for the excitement of being in love and feeling like a wanted woman - by her husband. An affair with a hunky golf instructor may ruin all that. Lauren: She's still a newspaper columnist in Boston and enjoys her relationship with her thuggish Dominican boyfriend who seems to be getting one too many text messages on his phone. Lauren struggles with seeing the truth about her guy and herself. Confused, she decides to experiment sexually with one of the sucias. (Spoiler alert:) And when no one is around, she privately abuses alcohol and herself with trips to the bathroom. All combine to send her over the edge with the sucias to the rescue. Elizabeth: Her Boston TV anchoring days behind her, this Colombian with the heart of a poet is enjoying being a new mother to a baby she and her partner adopted. Elizabeth loves motherhood but her partner doesn't feel the same way That conflict pulls them apart and forces Elizabeth to realize that she may be a single gay mother after all in Brookline. Complicating matters, Elizabeth is secretly in love with one of the sucias. Rebecca: Her Latina magazine is booming and so is her marriage. All she wants is a baby and health issues and work stress only complicate that. Sara: She's the Cuban-American Martha Stewart with a popular show that Elizabeth produces in Boston. She seems to have it all. She's moved on from her abusive ex-husband who has fled the country and hasn't been seen locally but she still aches for him, physically and emotionally. Through Sara, the reader sees the difficulty of letting go of an abusive relationship and the pull that one person can have on another when one lets someone else rent space in their head and heart. Amber: Her music career is on a high note and she enjoys the freedo