The Play

This is book #3, in the Briar U series. This story can be read as a standalone novel. To avoid the spoilers, and truly enjoy the series, I recommend reading these in order. Hunter had last season end badly. He is determined to have a better year, and be the best Captain of his hockey team. Then he met temptation. Demi has a boyfriend and is fine with adding Hunter to her huge list of guy friends. He turns out to be an interesting study buddy. While there is definitely an attraction there, they both know its off limits. I eagerly anticipated this story and was not disappointed! These characters bring it all. I enjoyed their heat and it made the sexy times hotter. Was great that some of our absolute faves came to visit. This was a great read. ***This copy was given in exchange for an honest review.

Demi and Hunter are very different people. Hunter is a serial player, on a self imposed sex free break, and Demi has been with 1 guy since school. Paired up on an assignment their friendship blossoms. The pair find out that when the end of the assignment period is over they want to keep in touch. A funny tale of love in an unexpected place with drama involving lollipops, hoop earrings, and police stations. The Play is a must read.

The narrators couldn’t have been more perfect for the telling of Hunter and Demi’s story! The dual narration was spot on with conveying the emotions, the thoughts, and the feelings of the characters. Perfection 😊 OMG, I loved Demi so much!!!! Smart, insightful, self-aware, and so much fun! She was also serious, determined, and had that bit of vulnerability and humility that makes everyone like her. She’s realist, but not pessimistic, and she speaks her mind. She has her soft spots, her blind spots, and her fears, but she faces things head on. Watching her grow, develop, and become her own woman was a joy and a delight. And watching her getting to show her sexy side with Hunter was off the charts, super duper, extra spicy sexiness! Of course we all knew Hunter, he was the one done wrong by, the one who seemed determined to self-destruct, in previous books in the series. But he has matured now, and he had set new goals for himself. Watching him being his fun-loving, but not self-imploding, self was also a joy. So satisfying to see Hunter become his own man, to shed off his baggage, and let the kind, sweet, person he is, have a chance to shine. And it came as no surprise the man was a dynamo in-between the sheets, on the ice, and that one time in a brawl Opposites attract, friends to lovers, whichever way you want to look at it, Demi and Hunter had a slow burn, that ran fiery hot before it even ignited. Once it did, it never lost any heat, and the hearts were engaged from the beginning, it just took them a bit to come to that realization <3