Title: Only Work, No Play
Author: Cora Reilly
Genre: Sports Romance
After two years of taking care of her heartbroken father, Evie needs a new start. Leaving the States and following her sister to Australia to work as the personal assistant of rugby star Xavier – The Beast – Stevens seems like the right kind of distraction. Tall, muscled and devilishly handsome, Xavier is the lov’ em and leav’ em kind of guy. He never forgets a girl’s name because he never bothers to remember it in the first place. Evie soon realizes that being Xavier’s assistant is a 24/7 job; the man seems unwilling to even set an alarm for himself. As she watches him move from one woman to the next, Evie is glad that her heart is safe from his attention. After all, she’s a far cry from the size zero models he usually takes to his bed. But soon being around Xavier doesn’t feel like a job, and seeing him walk around his apartment half naked all the time isn’t helping either. Evie knows that giving in to her attraction will lead to heartbreak, but when Xavier starts treating her as more than just his assistant, resisting his charms seems like an impossible task.
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Only Work, No Play is a pretty cliche book. But it was a good cliche book. We have the manwhore athlete who doesn't want commitment, and the shy and loner type heroine that swears up and down that she won't fall for the playboy. Cora Reilly was able to put her own spin on this trope and wrote a very interesting story with it, which I found to be amazing. She had me heavily invested into these characters' lives from the start and once I picked up this book I couldn't put it down.
Xavier and Evie were both well developed characters that I liked getting to know, though I will say that I wanted a little more from Xavier. What really got me about their relationship was that it wasn't a sudden change from friendship to more. There was a slow burn feeling to it and they progressed at a good pace. Sometimes with this trope it's almost like the feelings are a last minute thought and not something that's evident throughout the story. But that was not this book. It was the exact opposite of that and for that alone I was loving the book.
Bottom line, these characters will get you right in the feels and their story definitely gets a thumbs up from me. I'm really curious to see what else the author has in store for us with this series now so I can't wait for more.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cora Reilly is the author of the Born in Blood Mafia Series, The Camorra Chronicles and many other books, most of them featuring dangerously sexy bad boys. Before she found her passion in romance books, she was a traditionally published author of young adult literature. Cora lives in Germany with a cute but crazy Bearded Collie, as well as the cute but crazy man at her side. When she doesn't spend her days dreaming up sexy books, she plans her next travel adventure or cooks too spicy dishes from all over the world. Despite her law degree, Cora prefers to talk books to laws any day.
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