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Games People Play #1
Play A Game With Me
Maximilian Westfield has resurrected his family’s company under the controlling eye of the major shareholder–his mother. To keep the company, he must marry the woman she chooses, no matter how inane or spineless. He is resigned to go through with the arranged marriage until he meets a feisty costume designer who will never meet his mother's standards. A stolen kiss spurs his lustful cravings. Once he tastes the spirited beauty’s charms, he knows he has to find a way to keep her and his company. No other woman will do.
The daughter of a powerful British businessman, Teresa Medici Staffordshire leads her life as Tess Medici to avoid men out to please her father. Then she meets Maximilian, a sexy uptight CEO. From the moment he unleashes his expert fingers on her skin, she’s hooked. His erotic games make her body hum with pleasure. Determined to lure Max out to play, every encounter becomes a game of enticement. But his commitment to his family business and his mother’s determination to marry him off makes it impossible to take the relationship public, and Tess refuses to be his guilty little secret.
Choices become consequences, their future is on the line, and Max and Tess are running out of time.
The daughter of a powerful British businessman, Teresa Medici Staffordshire leads her life as Tess Medici to avoid men out to please her father. Then she meets Maximilian, a sexy uptight CEO. From the moment he unleashes his expert fingers on her skin, she’s hooked. His erotic games make her body hum with pleasure. Determined to lure Max out to play, every encounter becomes a game of enticement. But his commitment to his family business and his mother’s determination to marry him off makes it impossible to take the relationship public, and Tess refuses to be his guilty little secret.
Choices become consequences, their future is on the line, and Max and Tess are running out of time.
- GenresRomance
244 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2017
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Cadence Vonn
25 books220 followersCadence Vonn is an Amazon bestselling and an award winning erotic romantic suspense author with a BFA in photography and silversmithing. She’s an accomplished doodler and daydreamer who discovered she enjoys writing down the sexy stories that dance in her head. Lately villains have been screaming for attention in her dreams so she’s incorporated their POV’s into her new darker Choice & Consequence series. If you like your romances sizzling hot with an edge of suspense and danger, but always with a happily ever after, this series is for you. Read more about the books at www.CadenceVonn.com/books
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May 12, 2019
Thank you Netgalley and The Wild Rose Press for the online copy. I voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I have mixed feelings about this story. I cannot say I like the start of the story. I cannot say that I like any of the characters. I also do not like that the writer feel that it is important to describe every clothes that Tess wears. And it is almost always in the same manner : Max's cousin would pick her up for his family occasion where she would wear her own creation to grab Max's attention and the cousin would fawn over her choice of clothings and compliment what works for her body. It reaches to a point where I knew it was coming.
For me, the story got interesting when Max's mother entered the picture and started to get a sniff of what is going on between Max and Tess. The sneaking around and trying to be one step ahead is interesting for me. But, having said that, it is hard to believe that they went from just sleeping together to 'I love you' fairly quickly.
I have mixed feelings about this story. I cannot say I like the start of the story. I cannot say that I like any of the characters. I also do not like that the writer feel that it is important to describe every clothes that Tess wears. And it is almost always in the same manner : Max's cousin would pick her up for his family occasion where she would wear her own creation to grab Max's attention and the cousin would fawn over her choice of clothings and compliment what works for her body. It reaches to a point where I knew it was coming.
For me, the story got interesting when Max's mother entered the picture and started to get a sniff of what is going on between Max and Tess. The sneaking around and trying to be one step ahead is interesting for me. But, having said that, it is hard to believe that they went from just sleeping together to 'I love you' fairly quickly.
May 19, 2019
Play A Game With Me by Cadence Vonn
Games People Play #1
Romantic, steamy, fantasy novel with a whole lot of game playing going on. What kind of games? Bedroom, boardroom, family, corporate, marriage, dating, hiding/not coming out of the closet games and perhaps a few more. If I consider this more a fairy tale or fantasy than a real life believable romance then it rates higher than otherwise. Tess attends an event with her best friend Chris and meets Chris’s cousin Maximilian. The two strike sparks immediately and act upon them. After that the situation becomes more cloak and dagger for them to get together as Max is trying to hide from his mother (he is 34) and Tess is hiding her identity and wealth from Max wanting him to want her for herself. Anyway...lots of steamy times and hiding and sneaking and then of course the big breakup and finally the makeup and HEA. The plot is predictable but fun and the H/h seemed to click and belong together. The side story of Chris finding his match in Julian through an introduction by Tess was a fun addition, too.
Thank you to NetGalley and Wild Rose Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.
3-4 Stars
Games People Play #1
Romantic, steamy, fantasy novel with a whole lot of game playing going on. What kind of games? Bedroom, boardroom, family, corporate, marriage, dating, hiding/not coming out of the closet games and perhaps a few more. If I consider this more a fairy tale or fantasy than a real life believable romance then it rates higher than otherwise. Tess attends an event with her best friend Chris and meets Chris’s cousin Maximilian. The two strike sparks immediately and act upon them. After that the situation becomes more cloak and dagger for them to get together as Max is trying to hide from his mother (he is 34) and Tess is hiding her identity and wealth from Max wanting him to want her for herself. Anyway...lots of steamy times and hiding and sneaking and then of course the big breakup and finally the makeup and HEA. The plot is predictable but fun and the H/h seemed to click and belong together. The side story of Chris finding his match in Julian through an introduction by Tess was a fun addition, too.
Thank you to NetGalley and Wild Rose Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.
3-4 Stars
July 2, 2018
I am so going to have a book hangover over this book. It is going to take some heavy artillery for me get over this one.
September 11, 2019
Great book!
This was a hard to put down book! I read it in one day. Max and Tessa had great chemistry. Humorous, erotic, heart wrenching, and fun to read. If you love a great romance, give this book a try!
This was a hard to put down book! I read it in one day. Max and Tessa had great chemistry. Humorous, erotic, heart wrenching, and fun to read. If you love a great romance, give this book a try!
May 18, 2019
My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.
I have mixed feelings with this book. It's almost as though one author wrote the first half and another author finished it. Or the first half is maybe a second or third draft and the last half a polished book. The writing, dialogue, story flow, etc. in the first half came off as stiff and unnatural. Somewhere along the line, it all changed. The writing felt more polished, smoothed out, and not at all clunky, and I was immersed in the story.
Despite the "station" in life these two held, I loved the down-to-earth insecurities, played up with mixed signals and misread situations. The mother was an excellent villain, but it would have helped to give her some humanity too. I enjoyed how the story played out at the end. But a major event came across as a little too deus ex machina to neatly tie it all up.
As someone else mentioned, the repetition of Tess's gay best friend's comments regarding her outfits, and how "hot" and fabulous she looked every time, and how all the men would be drooling... monotonous and unimaginative.
And the sex scenes... again, in the beginning, awkward and clunky. I didn't feel the passion so much as mechanics of body parts, almost uncomfortable to read. These scenes also improved as the story moved forward.
Had the quality of writing and story flow been there from the beginning, this would have been a solid four or five stars. As is, it's generous for me at three.
I have mixed feelings with this book. It's almost as though one author wrote the first half and another author finished it. Or the first half is maybe a second or third draft and the last half a polished book. The writing, dialogue, story flow, etc. in the first half came off as stiff and unnatural. Somewhere along the line, it all changed. The writing felt more polished, smoothed out, and not at all clunky, and I was immersed in the story.
Despite the "station" in life these two held, I loved the down-to-earth insecurities, played up with mixed signals and misread situations. The mother was an excellent villain, but it would have helped to give her some humanity too. I enjoyed how the story played out at the end. But a major event came across as a little too deus ex machina to neatly tie it all up.
As someone else mentioned, the repetition of Tess's gay best friend's comments regarding her outfits, and how "hot" and fabulous she looked every time, and how all the men would be drooling... monotonous and unimaginative.
And the sex scenes... again, in the beginning, awkward and clunky. I didn't feel the passion so much as mechanics of body parts, almost uncomfortable to read. These scenes also improved as the story moved forward.
Had the quality of writing and story flow been there from the beginning, this would have been a solid four or five stars. As is, it's generous for me at three.
June 1, 2019
Play A Game With Me by Cadence Vonn is book One in the Games People Play Series. This is the story of Teresa Medici Staffordshire 'Tess' and Maximilian Westfield 'Max'.
Tess works to keep who she really is in the background wanting to be like for herself and not her background. Max has worked to bring a company back up from the brink. Then the main shareholder, aka...his mother wants him to marry someone of her choosing. Which to Max wouldn't really be to big of a problem until he meets Tess.
Both have their games going and I enjoyed read their story.
Tess works to keep who she really is in the background wanting to be like for herself and not her background. Max has worked to bring a company back up from the brink. Then the main shareholder, aka...his mother wants him to marry someone of her choosing. Which to Max wouldn't really be to big of a problem until he meets Tess.
Both have their games going and I enjoyed read their story.
May 22, 2019
To keep the family company that he saved, he must appease the major shareholder, his mother, by marrying the woman she chooses. Max doesn’t see that as a problem until he meets Tess. Can he find a way to keep both Tess and his company and what secrets is she hiding? Fast-paced read with off the charts steamy chemistry, great characters and a story that really draws you in. I loved it!
May 29, 2018
Oohhh the ride you get to be on with this story -- sizzling encounters, strong characters, and a fantastic story connecting them all together. Leaves you breathless. Romance with a kick. And none of the frustration of on-again-off-again other stories drag you through.
May 28, 2019
This was the first book in the series. Not as good as the second one but still enjoyable. The story was very straightforward and one dimensional.
February 21, 2020
My Recommendation
4 Stars for Play A Game with Me by Cadence Vonn
ARC received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review … opinions expressed are my own & have not been influenced in any way …
Absolutely loved this book !!! This author has now been added to my TBR author list & I am hoping for a book 2 !! Max & Tess need to have their love story continue …
This book has it all :
Great plot with a few unexpected twists
I really ❤️ when a heroine plays a bit hard to get ❤️❤️
Great chemistry 🔥🔥
This is a great romance with a HEA that made me 😊❤️
Read in 24 hrs could not put it down ! Tess also has the most awesome bestie & wingman in Max’s cousin - great secondary characters as well …
The only reason I did not rate a 5 is because I wanted MORE …
4 Stars for Play A Game with Me by Cadence Vonn
ARC received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review … opinions expressed are my own & have not been influenced in any way …
Absolutely loved this book !!! This author has now been added to my TBR author list & I am hoping for a book 2 !! Max & Tess need to have their love story continue …
This book has it all :
Great plot with a few unexpected twists
I really ❤️ when a heroine plays a bit hard to get ❤️❤️
Great chemistry 🔥🔥
This is a great romance with a HEA that made me 😊❤️
Read in 24 hrs could not put it down ! Tess also has the most awesome bestie & wingman in Max’s cousin - great secondary characters as well …
The only reason I did not rate a 5 is because I wanted MORE …
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