Review: Playing With Forever (Sydney Smoke Rugby #4) by Amy Andrews

Well hello sexy country boy! Playing With Forever was a totally fun, sexy read that made for a great afternoon. ;-)

Playing With Forever (Sydney Smoke Rugby #4) by Amy Andrews

Country boy, Ryder Davis has the world at his feet. A stellar rugby career, a winning way with women and a beach view that keeps him in blue sky and bikini babes. He’s living the dream. The last thing he needs is a Great Dane called Tiny destroying his feng shui.

Dog whisperer, Juliet Morgan is about to start living her dream and she’s counting down the days. In two months she’ll finally be moving to Italy and no man’s going to stop her this time. Not even a rugby superstar with a badly behaved pooch.
But when Ryder skids into the animal shelter looking for help Juliet agrees to assist him with his canine issues. Pretty soon they’re assisting each other out of their clothes and tumbling headlong into a sex thing with an expiry date.

Neither of them expected it to become more. But when for now starts to feel like forever Juliet hits the panic button. Ryder knows he has to play the long game and let her walk away. After all it’s not over until the final hooter sounds and all’s fair in love and rugby.

3.5 out of 5 stars

Sometimes you just need an easy, fast paced read with likable characters and hot sexy times and I have to say, this totally fit the bill! Totally entertaining and hot!

I'm going to keep this short and sweet... I liked both characters. Juliet and Ryder had a lust at first site thing going on and I thought it was flirty and sweet and I enjoyed the start of their relationship. Throw in a crazy dog and it just upped the entertainment value. Juliet is a woman on a mission wanting to go to Italy so it was fun watching them navigate this building relationship when there was an end date. There's a bit of conflict and emotion mixed in to round it all out making it a solid story. I liked what we learned about them, not super deep but enough to get your invested.

I enjoyed the overall story. The second half flowed much better than the first. It took me until about 20% for everything to click for me. I liked their interactions and their playfulness and when they finally opened up a bit and realized their feelings. Nothing is overly in depth, pretty surface stuff but enjoyable non the less. Great ending and awesome happily ever after. I'm pretty neutral about the secondary characters, they were an entertaining element added but it was a bit confusing who was who. I could tell there was a fun camaraderie with the men though so I kind of got it.

The writing was good. I loved that it was dual POV. The take away is that it was super entertaining and hot and it made for a great afternoon read. :-)

Complimentary copy received for honest review.