{"id":3061,"date":"2018-07-09T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T00:17:36","slug":"review-playing-dirty-amy-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/review-playing-dirty-amy-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Playing Dirty &#8211; Amy Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/40518989.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: Playing Dirty &#8211; Amy Andrews\" title=\"Review: Playing Dirty &#8211; Amy Andrews\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>Playing Dirty<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/amy-andrews\/\">Amy Andrews<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/series\/sydney-smoke-rugby\/\">Sydney Smoke Rugby #6<\/a> <br><strong>Also in this series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/11\/review-playing-rules-amy-andrews\/\">Playing By Her Rules<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/12\/review-playing-house-amy-andrews\/\">Playing House<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/entangled-brazen\/\">Entangled: Brazen<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> July 9, 2018 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 250 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/netgalley\/\">NetGalley<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Sydney Smoke star recruit Kyle Leighton can\u2019t believe the best sex of his life was just a one-night stand. He didn\u2019t even know her name\u2026 Until she shows up at the locker room two weeks later and he connects the dots. <\/p>\n<p>Val King. Oh shit. <\/p>\n<p>Coach has one hard and fast rule: Never, ever date (much less f*ck ten ways to Sunday) his daughter. And not only did Kyle break that rule, but he wants to break it over and over again. In the shower. Against a wall. On every flat surface in his home.<\/p>\n<p>But the coach and his daughter share more than just DNA. Their issues run deep and fooling around with her could widen the family chasm. <\/p>\n<p>And get Kyle benched for life.<\/p>\n<p>So why can\u2019t he stop thinking about her? Flirting with her? 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father would not be impressed by this <em>fraternisation<\/em> with one of his players made it feel even better.<br \/>\nDefiant. Illicit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Val is drinking away her 24th birthday when rugby player Kyle slides up next to her at the bar. \u00a0While Val knows who he is &#8211; she&#8217;s made a habit of inserting herself into the rugby team&#8217;s life in order to find a way into her father&#8217;s heart &#8211; Kyle has no idea who she is, other than a beautiful (and very knowledgeable about rugby) woman. \u00a0Things proceed much as you would expect, with Val disappearing the next morning, never intending to let her father know what happened since it would affect Kyle&#8217;s career. \u00a0Kyle can&#8217;t get the mystery woman out of his head, so when he sees her outside the Smoke locker room after a game, he immediately grabs and kisses her &#8211; in front of her dad and the whole team. \u00a0Already on Griff&#8217;s bad side, violating the Smoke&#8217;s number one rule &#8211; the coach&#8217;s daughter is off-limits &#8211; leads to a ultimatum: never see Val again or get kicked off the team and blacklisted from rugby forever. \u00a0But Kyle can&#8217;t get her out of his thoughts, and Val can&#8217;t forget him, either. \u00a0Can their love survive the weight of Val and Griff&#8217;s strained relationship?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>What if I told you I could handle my career and your father just fine without dancing around and pretending I\u2019m not totally hot for his daughter?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve liked Val since we first met her in the series, and I&#8217;m just going to reiterate that it was so nice to see her finally get her HEA. \u00a0Most of her life has been shaped by the horrific tragedy that happened when she was 2 (and which we finally find out the details of in this book), and then by trying to earn her father&#8217;s love after he emotionally distanced himself after the accident. \u00a0She&#8217;s tried to be good and undemanding, even going so far as to insert herself into the running of the rugby tam and the WAGs just so she can be close to him, because if she can&#8217;t win his love, she can at least be involved in the one thing he does love. \u00a0Even though she knows Kyle is off-limits &#8211; and she certainly doesn&#8217;t want to tank his career &#8211; the chemistry between them is undeniable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Smoke is great because they work together as one. Not because one guy decides he can do it all himself. There are seven other guys out there on the field at any given time, and you\u2019re going to need your team behind you when you\u2019re shit out of luck, Leighton, and you will be. It happens to everyone at some point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kyle, on the other hand, comes from a big self-described bogan (the Aussie version of redneck family) family, and while they love him, he&#8217;s resigned to the fact that he&#8217;s the person in his family who gets things done. \u00a0He&#8217;s admired and looked up to Griff for pretty much his entire life, and getting to finally play on the Smoke should be a dream come true. \u00a0Problem is, he&#8217;s highly self-sufficient, something that carries over in to his rugby game and is certainly not endearing him to the team or Griff, even before his one night stand with Val is revealed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat do you want from Griff? If you could have anything? A relationship? An explanation? An apology?\u201d<br \/>\nThe question shredded Val\u2019s usual bravado where her father was concerned.<br \/>\nNobody had ever asked her that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond that, though, this is a ridiculously steamy book, with some of the hottest sex scenes yet. \u00a0But when they&#8217;re not scorching up the sheets (or her bakery&#8217;s prep area), Kyle listens to Val, and offers a new perspective that just might succeed at shaking up 22 years of resentment. \u00a0A good portion of the end of the book is spent on Val and Griff&#8217;s relationship, but it didn&#8217;t lessen the impact of her romantic relationship with Kyle &#8211; rather, it was her relationship with him that allowed her to finally start the work of repairing her relationship with her father.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I loved this addition to the series, and I&#8217;m already eagerly anticipating the next one. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s next, but now that Val has her HEA, my eye&#8217;s on Griff and Eve! \u00a0I highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoys hilarious and sexy romances!<\/p>\n<p>And just for giggles, my new favorite romance quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEven in the dark, his cock stood out like a freaking beacon, thick and heavy, springing proud and free from a thatch of black hair. 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