The Play Mate by Kendall Ryan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
His best friend’s little sister is all grown up … and ready to play in a whole new way.
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Smith Hamilton has it all—he’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’s little sister. That means keeping Evie at arm’s length … 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.
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Evie Reed knows she’s blessed—with 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.
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Except that when Evie’s plan leads to disaster, she and Smith must decide—ignore the attraction sizzling between them, or become play mates and risk it all.
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The Play Mate
“I wanted to be loved so badly and couldn’t figure out why no one wanted to love me back.”
The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Romance: 💛🖤💜💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍
Character development: 🫣🤭🫠😮
The heroine: Evie Reed – she comes from a wealthy family. She had an expensive education at an all girl college and has always been protected by her older brother Cullen. She is just finishing up a two week tour of Europe with her friend.
The Hero: Smith Hamilton – best friends with Cullen Reed since they were kids. Smith has known Evie as Cullens annoying little sister as she was seven years younger than them. Smith was in foster care as a child but eventually was adopted by a nice couple when he was six. He is now wealthy and a financial genius.
The Story: Evie’s only sexual experience was far from satisfactory so while in Paris she decides to seduce her long time crush Smith Hamilton, so she sneaks into his hotel room while he is sleeping and things start to get hot and heavy with him thinking the woman in his bed is the woman he met earlier that evening, but eventually he realizes it is Evie, his best friend’s little sis and he rejects her.
Smith and Evie end up working together to save her family lingerie company that her brother runs. Smith can’t stop thinking about how she felt in his arms. He was dreaming about her before that night and what happened just made it worse. I liked these two and they had plenty of chemistry between them. I loved all the dirty thoughts in Smiths head, he was deliciously preoccupied most of the time.
The narration, like the first book, was dual POV and dual narrators which I look for in audiobooks. It was done by Ava Erickson and Sebastian York, both whom I enjoy listening to. I like a deep voice for the male character, Sebastian has that and more, he is sone of my favorite narrators and I love Ava Erickson’s narration. She has a great voice.
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