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

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

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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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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Sep 28, 2013 Rachel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites

I am totally, utterly and completely in love with this book, with its storyline, with the picture it paints and with its characters. Its characters, particularly Ivey and Gray are beautiful, strong, wonderful people and I want me a cowboy!

I never wanted Play it Safe to end, I was totally invested in it. Kristen Ashley is an incredible author who managed to suck me in and had me laughing, crying and swooning with every page I turned.

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