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The Play

Written by: Elle Kennedy
Narrated by: Ana Osorio,Teddy Hamilton
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Publisher's Summary

A brand-new stand-alone novel in the New York Times best-selling Briar U series!

What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate...no matter how hard that makes things. 

But there’s nothing in the rulebook that says I can’t be friends with a woman. And I won’t lie - my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she’s got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her. 

Except three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound. 

And she’s making a play for me. 

Avoiding her is impossible. We’re paired up on a yearlong school project, but I’m confident I can resist her. We’d never work, anyway. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren’t aligned, and her parents hate my guts. 

Hooking up is a very bad idea. Now I just have to convince my body - and my heart.

©2019 Elle Kennedy (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

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Definitely my least favourite book in the series

I hate ragging on anything but I have to say this was definitely my least favourite book. It took a long time to get going (like half of the book), I was kinda bored with the dialogue. Demi has a boyfriend at first so it’s kinda boring gets better towards the end though. I do have to say I don’t think the female narrator voice was the best fit for this book, a little bit childish… even though she is actually in her late 20’s ( I had to look it up since to me it seemed really noticeable). Because of this I felt there was a pretty huge disconnect of the characters between Hunter and Demi’s eyes. Through Hunters eyes it was adult like college age, but when we switched over to Demi it honestly felt like the characters were 14ish. I would 1000% relisten to any other book in the series, but I don’t think I would relisten to this one.

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loved the book, not the narration

I really enjoyed this novel, 3 of 4 in the Brier U series. It is funny! I definitely chuckled out loud more than a few times. My only issue were the number of mispronounced and misread words from the female narrator. She didn't suit the role and it threw off the vibe occasionally but overall the book is really entertaining. The egg.. 😆

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Best of the series

This one was different and actually really good. I loved the off campus series and this one as well but the last story was a bit blah. But this one was different and very funny. Voices were good too. Female voice a bit robotic and her accent kept changing but wtv.

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My favorite of the series so far...

Demi is my favourite character of all the females in the series so far (including Off-Campus series). I also thought this was the funniest book of all as well. Loved it!

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Slow, smoldering, burn to ignition!

The narrators couldn’t have been more perfect for the telling of Hunter and Demi’s story! The dual narration was spot on with conveying the emotions, the thoughts, and the feelings of the characters. Perfection 😊
OMG, I loved Demi so much!!!! Smart, insightful, self-aware, and so much fun! She was also serious, determined, and had that bit of vulnerability and humility that makes everyone like her. She’s realist, but not pessimistic, and she speaks her mind. She has her soft spots, her blind spots, and her fears, but she faces things head on. Watching her grow, develop, and become her own woman was a joy and a delight. And watching her getting to show her sexy side with Hunter was off the charts, super duper, extra spicy sexiness!

Of course we all knew Hunter, he was the one done wrong by, the one who seemed determined to self-destruct, in previous books in the series. But he has matured now, and he had set new goals for himself. Watching him being his fun-loving, but not self-imploding, self was also a joy. So satisfying to see Hunter become his own man, to shed off his baggage, and let the kind, sweet, person he is, have a chance to shine. And it came as no surprise the man was a dynamo in-between the sheets, on the ice, and that one time in a brawl

Opposites attract, friends to lovers, whichever way you want to look at it, Demi and Hunter had a slow burn, that ran fiery hot before it even ignited. Once it did, it never lost any heat, and the hearts were engaged from the beginning, it just took them a bit to come to that realization <3

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