Review: Fun, sexy series.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
I’m not a huge football fan but I enjoy Kate Donovan’s writing and this cover caught by eye and I’m glad it did. I thoroughly enjoyed this crazy, mixed-up, frustrating yet satisfying love story between a NFL quarterback trying to get his team to the Super Bowl and an advertising newcomer trying to make her mark. Playing For Keeps is a complicated story between two people at different places in their lives with an undeniable connection and a whole lot of chemistry.I’m so impressed with this story Johnny Spurling while a pro football player, has a healthy respect for women. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t enjoyed them, he just treats them well. His father’s latest health scare has him deciding it’s time to settle down and have a son to please his Dad, so he agrees to a blind date after the Super Bowl with his sister in law’s friend but then he meets what he thinks might be a final fling only to realize she could quite possibly be the perfect woman.As part of a sexual harassment suit settlement Erica McCall is getting to pitch her idea for a beer Super Bowl ad. Her idea of the perfect spokesman, quarterback Johnny Spurling but the Spurling family doesn’t do product endorsements. Erica thinks she has the angle that will appear to Johnny but what she doesn’t expect is an instant spark that seems to ignite both of them.It was so easy to fall in love with both of these characters and their complicated, sexy, and intriguing relationship. At very different points in their lives and the fact that Johnny is working for her client leads them to decide they really shouldn’t see each other but yet they can’t seem to stay apart. It was as amusing as it was heartbreaking watching their tryst turn into so much more.The secondary story lines added depth to this already full story and made it even better. Some of the additional characters were so fun to read and at times offered a little bit of comic relief to a relationship filled with angst, heartache, and some drama.Full of passion, twists, turns, and some good old fashion wooing Playing For Keeps is an incredible addition to this series!Review copy provided for an honest review.