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The Perfect Play (Play by Play, #1)

Jaci Burton

Start date: April 1, 2012

Finish date: May 1, 2012

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Mar 11, 2011 Pamela rated it it was amazing

4.5/5

First, let's just take a moment to savor this cover. Jed Hill is among the wonders of nature, and I will never grow tired of staring at his absolutely ripped physique.

Fortunately, the book lives up to the cover. Mick is a star quarterback at the height of his career and his carefully orchestrated fame. Tara is an event planner single mom with a 14-year-old son she gave birth to as a teenager. When the two meet at an event Tara plans, neither of them have any idea where they're going to end 4.5/5

First, let's just take a moment to savor this cover. Jed Hill is among the wonders of nature, and I will never grow tired of staring at his absolutely ripped physique.

Fortunately, the book lives up to the cover. Mick is a star quarterback at the height of his career and his carefully orchestrated fame. Tara is an event planner single mom with a 14-year-old son she gave birth to as a teenager. When the two meet at an event Tara plans, neither of them have any idea where they're going to end up.

Tara doesn't want a parade of men in and out of her life because of the bad example it will set for her son — and because she's never really had any reason to trust men. Her life is her work and her son. (That's something I can relate to!) Mick, on the other hand, is wealthy, famous, a star — but he's sick of the bulimic models and vain starlets his agent has arranged for him to "date."

Although this relationship starts in the bedroom — and it gets off to a sexy start, believe me — it quickly becomes more than just sex. Those of you who love erotic love scenes will enjoy the book, because there is a lot of super-scorching sex in this story. But the emotion isn't lacking either, and by the end you'll be delighted, as I was, when Tara opens herself to the possibility of being with Mick and Mick straightens out his priorities, making a firm decision about what matters most to him in life.

My only quibble with the book is that I wanted an epilogue. I wanted to see Tara have the family and support she's never had before. Given that the next book involves Gavin, Mick's brother, a pro baseball player, I'm guessing we'll get some of that then.

This is the first book I've read on Kindle, so that was an adventure, too.

I recommend this to contemporary romance fans, romantica fans, and those who love sports-star heroes.

A quick update: A reader friend e-mailed me privately to ask whether there was anal action in the love scenes because she doesn't like to read that. There is. I don't care for that either — just call me Little Miss Vanilla — but as I told her, I found that I was able to just skip a few lines and be fine. It's a great story, and I'd hate her to miss it for that reason. ...more

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May 11, 2012 Christina rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-romance, period-modern, character-pro-sports

That was super yummy. :)

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Feb 02, 2011 Liz rated it really liked it

4.5 STARS
This was awesome. Loved it. I am so looking forward to Gavin's book now :) ...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Gemma rated it really liked it

Shelves: erotica, romance

hot steamy read, with unusual alpha male

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Jan 09, 2011 is mee... kissa rated it it was ok

Jan 29, 2011 Bekah marked it as march-2011-ebook-buys

Feb 09, 2011 Carol marked it as to-read

Feb 23, 2011 booklovinrn rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-romance, jaci-burton

Mar 02, 2011 Yulia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, erotica, sports

Mar 12, 2011 KellyJo marked it as to-read

Apr 17, 2011 Kerith marked it as to-read

Jun 04, 2011 Serena rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-romance, erotica, kindle-ebooks, sports-romance

Jun 11, 2011 KarenH rated it it was amazing

Shelves: definitely-worth-your-while, great-dialogue, sweetest-hea, paperback-5-stars-plus, top-30ish-favorites, keepers, sexy-with-a-capital-s-hero, light-erotica, excellent-love-story, feisty-heroine

Jun 06, 2018 Suzanne rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own, october-2011-rrrc-pick-it-for-me, november-2011-rrc-pick-it-for-me, april-2012-rrrc-pick-it-for-me, august-2012-rrrc-pick-it-for-me, september-2015-rrrc-pick-it-for-me, read-in-2018, tower-teams-read-2018, dhasg-reading-challenge-2018

Sep 09, 2011 Katix rated it really liked it

Sep 18, 2011 Merita marked it as to-read

Sep 19, 2011 Wendy rated it liked it

Shelves: not-finished

Oct 29, 2011 Jackie P rated it liked it

Nov 05, 2011 namericanwordcat marked it as to-read

Shelves: contemporary-romance, single-mother, contemporary-romance-series, sports, close-family, fame, football, 1st-in-series, teenagers, san-fransico