Playing the Player

Lisa Brown Roberts

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The Good Girl Vs. The PlayerRound one begins…Trina Clemons needed the money. Why else would she – the most organized, prepared student in school – spend the summer as a nanny and partner with the biggest slacker ever? Now she’s ready to tackle nannyhood with her big binder of research and schedules. Just don’t ask her about the secret job of “fixing” the bad habits of a certain high school player…Slade Edmunds prefers easy hook-ups, and Trina is definitely not his type. She’s all structure and rules, while Slade wants to just have fun. Fortunately, Trina has no idea about the bet Slade made with his best friend that he can totally get her to unwind by the end of summer…Then the weirdest thing happens. There’s chemistry. A lot of it. But nothing gets between a boy and a girl like a big, fat secret…

This book was different than I expected it to be! It’s difficult to describe what it is that makes this story so special, but I can guarantee you- it totally sucked me in! At the beginning I wasn’t sure as it felt like a nice read, but I also wasn’t impressed by it. Up to this point it was nothing I haven’t read before. But Up from the middle to the end, it felt like there was a spell surrounding me. A spell caused by characters who are special, and strong and so individual-seeing them develope was the best part. The story itself was very good, also the story line who was filled with “things to work with” all the time. But the characters….they are what makes this book so special in my opinion. And I am not only talking about Trina or Slade- I am also talking about the children, Gilly and Max, who just fit perfectly into the story. Seeing not only Slade and Trina, but also the children interacting with each other was something I have not seen this way before in other books. Of course I had some thoughts about things that are not done in a way I would have suggested them. But after some time you just have to beliebe in Slade’s advice “to go with the flow”. That’s what I did – and it was a damn good flow….