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Play It Safe

Kristen Ashley,

Savannah Richards (Reader)

Start date: August 25, 2018

Finish date: August 30, 2018

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Jul 02, 2012 Jennifer☠Pher☠ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, re-read-2021

Re-Read 2021

It’s been fun revisiting some of my earliest Kristen Ashley books, this go round I wanted to take a peek at some of the stand-alones.

I really thought I forgot this one but a lot slowly came back to me once I dug in. I’ll admit this sort of story line is probably one of my least favorites and I did feel an impending doom while reading but it was easily shaken off and just a story that showcases what KA does best, even in her early days.

It’s fun to go back and pick up on things that d ...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Anne OK rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-reads

This one was a hit with me! I loved both Ivey and Gray, along with all the secondaries. It was a great story from beginning to ending. One of my favorites so far!

Full review soon.

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Jul 28, 2012 Michele ~ la Smoocherina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: seriously-sexy-foreplay, can-t-keep-their-hands-off-each-oth, high-sexual-tension, real-world-problems, mf, alpha-male, strong-heroine, emotionally-satisfying, family-dysfunction, cowboy

So, I liked this book. Not as much as other KA books, but it was still good. I really want Kristen Ashley to write a m/m story. I'd love Lash's story. I picture Gale Harold as Lash. I don't know why exactly this wasn't a 5 star book for me. Maybe it was that the ending was anti-climactic, or that the relationship didn't have the drama of a usual KA book, internal drama that is. But I loved Gray and Ivey. I loved their devotion to one another. That Ivey wants family more than anything in the worl ...more

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Jan 27, 2014 Karen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, kindle, contemporary-romance

Awwwww - this was so sweet and I loved it.

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Aug 12, 2014 Suzanne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This story starts with Ivey's past, what she does for a living, why she keeps everyone out and lives by the mantra "Play it Safe". Then she meets Gray and thinks maybe she can have a better life and settle in one town.

Once the big event happens that tears Ivey and Gray apart, I struggled with connecting to the older, more worldly Ivey. It's one of those books that you have a really hard time putting down, because you're dying to figure out what's going to happen next and rooting for the main cha ...more

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