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Play With Me by Becka Mack

39 reviews

kamreher's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

per my spreadsheet

i cry omg

spice 🌶 - a 5 🌶 spicy (romance.io scale)

length - just right

reading speed - read in 2 days

did it make me cry? - it seems yes

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rustbeltcoastie's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The love story was sweet and the author did a good job to showing, rather than telling, us the friendship and relationship was evolving in the first half. The second half of the book was too long. It leaned too hard into miscommunication and female insecurity tropes. Also really heavy on the lengthy speeches and internal monologue.

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fiwwa's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i figured out what makes this so long is the fact that there's one spice chapter for every three chapters LOL but with that much quantity, it's not repetitive and well always... interesting. i know we're reading this book for the romance and definitely not to know more about hockey as a sport soo not complaining !!! the only ick i have is how they have a name for everything, i'm not even gonna talk about it. it's realy funny though—i laughed A LOT, hot, and yet still so angsty. i love jenniegarrett and their friendship with each other + with the others <3

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lauryneball's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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sare131's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This is a great second book from Becka Mack. I really enjoyed Jennie and Garrett's story. It's quite emotional as it delves into their pasts. Jennie has lost a lot and finds it difficult to trust people. Garrett had a difficult childhood and that is discussed throughout the book. Somehow these two find one another and develop a loving friendship and build on that. This was the slow burn of slow burns! It's a long book and I felt it could have been 100 pages shorter, but there's lots of character development, spice, secondary characters, hockey and family. I enjoyed this book. I'm excited for book 3.

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jessversteeg's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

So much spice, it’s getting old. I only wanted to see how the characters from the first book developed.

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beccaburchett's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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linnea_tornblom's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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sydney_marie13's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Just when I had fallen for Carter here comes Garrett! More timid and relaxed he is the perfect person for Jennie, he lets her feel at ease and I loved how simple and easily they fell for each other.

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quietmarki's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

God where do I start? First I thought I would enjoy this book bc of the good reviews on this app but boy where they wrong. I almost dnef this book bc of the cringey charachters/conversations. 60% in the book I was like okay this is not that bad, but still. I didn't had a problem with the FL nor the ML (only that the personalities switched up midbook what confused me) i have a problem with the side charachters. I would like to throw Carter from this planet. He just a child, like act you age ! Loved the plot, only cared for princess bubblegum but the story on how she got lost it was just boring. Like give me drama :) This book could be 200 pages shorter in my opinion bc there was a lot of repetition ....

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