{Review} Changing The Game (Play by Play #2) by Jaci Burton

Posted by Donna
Release Date: December 5th, 2013

Finished Date: April 14th, 2014
Publishers: Headline Eternal
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance 

Source: For Review
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320

Buy: Amazon UK / Amazon US / The Book Depo

Most people play by the rules. Gavin and Liz aren't most people....

Win at any cost. That's always been the mantra of sports agent Liz Darnell. When she carries things too far and risks losing her number-one client, baseball pro Gavin Riley, Liz realizes that she'll have to work extra innings to win him back. It might not be too much of a stretch. She's had a thing for this player's moves since she first laid eyes on him, and by the looks of it, he wants her just as bad.

Gavin's more than ready—especially when Liz is offering herself as part of the bargain. And as much of her as Gavin wants. For added thrills, he decides to throw a little curve ball Liz's way to see just how far she's truly willing to go to keep him as a client. But when love unexpectedly enters the playing field, neither Liz nor Gavin are ready for the biggest game-changer of them all.

The Review: Changing the Game is book two in Jaci Burton’s erotic Play by Play series and what a scorcher it is!

When Liz Darnell loses Mick Riley as a client, she was sure she was going to lose his brother – Gavin Riley too. So before that happens she decides to do the one thing she’s wanted to do forever and that’s kiss Gavin. However when Gavin doesn’t follow in his brother’s footsteps, Liz realizes she probably made the worse decision of her life because now not only does she have to see Gavin but she still is employed by him. Trying to be as professional as possible, Liz tries to keep away from Gavin…but Gavin has other ideas.  
Famous ball player Gavin Riley lives his life in style and usually has a different woman every week. Never having a girlfriend has so many perks to it but when his agent, Liz Darnell kisses him, Gavin can’t stop thinking about her and decides he needs to know her more than ever. As Liz and Gavin head into friends with benefits relationship, soon they are trying to overcome so much more together than just their new found relationship. Can these find a happy ending together?

It’s impossible not to love this book! Changing the Game is another cracking read by Jaci Burton and I’m only left wanting more. I know I’m only two books into the series but they seem to get better and better and let’s not forget, hotter and hotter! 

I absolutely loved Liz. I know when we first meet her she’s quite cold and doesn’t like to open up to anyone because of her experience with her parents, but once she does open up, she’s blossoms into a new person – a happy one who will experience anything but she’s still so vulnerable. Gavin opens her up as well as opening himself up to. Together these two had a great relationship – both professionally and personally – but the best is when they are romantically involved, it’s completely swoon-worthy.

In all, Changing the Game was another fantastic read and I can’t wait to get my hands on book three! 

Favourite Quote: “Sometimes your world falls apart. And it’s okay for you to let people in and let them see you crumble” 

Thank you to Headline Eternal for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an honest review.

A Review for The Perfect Play (Play by Play #1) by Jaci Burton

Posted by Donna
Release Date: December 3rd, 2013

Finished Date: April 25th, 2014
Publishers: Entangled Select
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance 

Source: For Review
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336

Buy: Amazon UK / Amazon US / The Book Depo

HEADLINE ETERNAL: Find your heart's desire...

The Perfect Play is the first in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jaci Burton's "must-read" (Fresh Fiction) Play-By-Play series, and an erotic story about love and the games people play from the queen of contemporary sports romance. Perfect for fans of Lori Foster, Maya Banks and Jill Shalvis.

Could love throw this all-star off his game? 

For years Mick Riley has enjoyed the fame, fortune - and girls - that come with being a pro athlete. So he's surprised to find he wants more than a one-night stand after a steamy and passionate encounter with confident, beautiful Tara Lincoln.

Too bad Tara's not interested in getting to know football's most notorious playboy any better. As the single mother of a teenage son, the last thing she needs is to be thrust into the spotlight of the jet-set lifestyle of a heartbreaker like Mick Riley. But when Mick sets his mind to win, nothing will stop him. And he has the perfect play in mind . . .

Keep to the field with the next in Jaci Burton's Play-By-Play series or get off the beaten track in small town Oklahoma with Hope Flames, the first in Burton's new contemporary romance series.

The Review: Sizzling hot, emotional and damn right sexy, The Perfect Play is an unputdownable book once you start reading! 

Mick Riley has it all, the perfect life, a fantastic career, and more money that he could possibly need and women throwing themselves at him. However, once Mick meets event planner Tara Lincoln, who is a single mother trying to support her teenage son; he realizes he’s not happy in the life he’s living. He’s missing something and that something is Tara. Once she’s in his life, Mick cannot let her go and continues to peruse her even though she is reluctant. Can Mick get the girl of his dreams he didn’t even know he was waiting for – or will Tara’s reluctant stop them from having the happiness they both deserve. 

The Perfect Play was my first venture into Jaci Burton’s work and I have to say, I bloody loved it! At the time of reading this, my last few reads had been just okay, but this blew my socks off and I seriously couldn’t put it down because I found the writing and the story so addictive. 

I find the more and more I read of sport related themed books, the more and more I enjoy them, which is weird because I’m not one for watching them on TV. I think it all comes down to how the author corporates the sports into the book and I loved how Jaci worked it within this stories. It was just enough information to keep you entertained throughout and constantly root for Mick. 

The main of the story is about the relationship between Mick and Tara – both I loved. Their story was emotional and super intense. And I loved every minute of it.

In all, this was definitely won't be the last Jaci Burton book I read!

Thank you to Headline Eternal for the opportunity to review this book, in exchange for an honest review.