{"id":5657,"date":"2017-03-16T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookmaven623.wordpress.com\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2017-03-16T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:00:24","slug":"review-the-play-mate-by-kendall-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/review-the-play-mate-by-kendall-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Play Mate by Kendall Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"the-play-mate-kendall-ryan\"Smith Hamilton has it all\u2014he’s smart, good-looking and loaded. But he remembers a time when he had nothing and no one, so he’s not about to mess up, especially with his best friend\u2019s little sister. That means keeping Evie at arm’s length \u2026 even though the once pesky little girl is now a buxom bombshell. A sexy blonde who pushes his self-control to the limit the night she crawls into bed with him.
\nEvie Reed knows she’s blessed\u2014with an exclusive education, a family who loves her, and a new job managing social media for her family’s lingerie company. But she wants more, like a reason to wear the sexy lingerie herself. She has just the man in mind to help with that. She’s crushed on Smith forever. Surely tricking her way into his bed will force him to see her in a new, adult way.
\nExcept that when Evie’s plan leads to disaster, she and Smith must decide\u2014ignore the attraction sizzling between them, or become play mates and risk it all.<\/p>\n

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Evie has a plan.\u00a0 She is going to finally seduce her crush.\u00a0 Her crush also happens to be her brother’s childhood best friend.\u00a0 Now that Evie has grown up to be a beautiful woman, Smith can’t get her out of his head.\u00a0 When Evie tries to put her seduction plan in action it doesn’t quite end the way she expects.\u00a0 To add another wrench into her plan of now forever ignoring Smith she will now be working between him and her brother everyday.\u00a0 Smith regrets how the night ended and now all he wants is to have it over again.\u00a0 Can they risk it all for some fun or will this end up with forever?
\nKendall Ryan can write sexy alpha males like nobody else.\u00a0 Smith is suave and sexy.\u00a0 Everyone reading this book will completely understand why Evie would want to seduce him.\u00a0 Smith and Evie gradually fall in love but it is getting them to realize that they have always been headed in that direction that is the most fun.\u00a0 I would say this book is a bit shorter than I would have preferred.\u00a0 The characters don’t grow as much due to the lack of background.\u00a0 I would have liked to know more about Smith.\u00a0 Aside from this, the story was quite entertaining and fun to read.\u00a0 I adore Kendall Ryan’s Roommate Series.<\/p>\n

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\n\"KendallA New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of more than two dozen titles, Kendall Ryan has sold over 2 million books and her books have been translated into several languages in countries around the world. Her books have also appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists more than three dozen times. Ryan has been featured in such publications as USA Today, Newsweek, and InTouch Magazine. She lives in Texas with her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n

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