The Play

By: Natalie Wrye

Narrated by: Tristan Josiah, Tatiana Sokolov

Baseball god Sevin Smith is no longer just the noisy bachelor living above me. Now he’s the MVP client I have to protect from a paternity scandal, and I’m not thrilled that my boss has me on the case.

That’s fine. I can pretend and work with a man who’s become my enemy.

But what I can’t pretend is not to be attracted to him - to not be falling for his sexy laugh and easy smile. And I definitely can’t pretend I’m not falling for the spunky eight-year-old kid that may or may not be his.

Yes, I admit it: becoming enemies with your neighbor - the sexy sports star - is never a good idea.

But falling in love with him might be the worst idea of all....

©2020 Natalie Wrye (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

dry start

best part the cat and kid slow dry start voices improve story line picks up

When a kid is missing, take a shower??

Storyline was fine, until the kid went missing. She takes a “20 minute shower”, then they have a conversation, with each other, then 2 others before they start the search? Then they hop in a cab? Not search outside first? Then go to the law office before they start the search? Ridiculous. You lost me at 20 minute shower after noticing the kid was gone.

Shallow

The story is flimsy. The big “surprise” at the end is predictable and senseless. The main characters act like teenagers.
Who gets into that much sex when there is a young child in the next room, especially when the child is practically a stranger?! Who has impactful discussions about the same child, while she can hear everything? How can a minor child who is not related to anyone travel with a bunch of strangers, with no official papers?
The whole supposed scandal and blackmail is absurd. The reasoning for it, in the end, is stupid and extremely unprofessional. Actually, most of the characters are unprofessional.
Once the main characters get together, any chance of story development is interrupted with useless sex scenes.

One particularly annoying thing is with the chapters starting with a day, when it’s kind of obvious what day it is. It gets irrelevant if you continue immediately after the previous scene and insist on telling me it’s (still) Saturday. It’s annoying when Saturday just goes on forever and I keep hearing it for several chapters.

The female narrator’s perpetually cheerful and surprised voice gets grating after a while. The sex scenes she narrates are unbearable. I don’t understand why she is so annoying, I liked her in other books but maybe she had a smaller part of the narration. Here, she is very present.

Definitely not worth a credit.