G. K. Brady
Autor/a de No Touch Zone (The Playmakers, #6)
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Obres de G. K. Brady
No Touch Zone (The Playmakers, #6) 3 exemplars
Taming Beckett (The Playmakers, #1) 2 exemplars
Line Change: (The Playmakers, #0) 2 exemplars
Puck the Halls: A Holiday Novella (The Playmakers Series Hockey Romances Book 7.5) (2021) 2 exemplars
Defending the Reaper (The Playmakers, #5) 1 exemplars
Gauging the Player: A One-Night-Stand Sports Romance (The Playmakers Series Hockey Romances Book 3) (2020) 1 exemplars
Third Man In (The Playmakers, #2) 1 exemplars
The Winning Score (The Playmakers, #4) 1 exemplars
Guarding the Crease (The Playmakers #9) 1 exemplars
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- Obres
- 12
- Membres
- 19
- Popularitat
- #609,294
- Valoració
- 4.6
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 2
Beckett Miller is your classic bad boy. Talented athlete, devastatingly good looking and rich enough to get anything he wants and to get away with anything. Until now. He’s disregarded rules and customs and just plain good behavior one time too many, and his hockey career is hanging by a thread. He’s become arrogant and reckless, and all those adoring women just want what his money can buy. And he’s bought a lot: cars, jewelry, clothes, houses, businesses – and a lot of drugs and a lot of parties. It all comes crashing down at once. A woman he’s with overdoses and almost dies. The business and financial managers he trusts have stolen from him. Yes, it’s his own fault. He should have paid attention. He should have cleaned up his act a long time ago. But for all his big body and big smile and big personality, there is also a vulnerability about him. Right away we want to see things work out for him. After he mends his ways, of course.
Paige Anderson is not just a realtor; she has ideas and vision, her goal for her company is to develop properties, repair and restore homes so they sell, so everyone involved in the transactions is happy. She’s married, but what was once a close, loving relationship with a man a few years older who adored her has become distant and cold. Adrian travels for work more than he’s home. When he is home he has little time for her, no cuddle time, and criticizes her hair, her body, ridicules her efforts and belittles her business. Any confidence she feels at work does not extend to her marriage. She just assumes it’s all her fault and she needs to fix it, but she’s blindsided by the revelation that Adrian is cheating and has been for quite a while.
Two very unhappy people, Beckett and Paige. Different circumstances, different reasons but the future doesn’t look bright for either of them. Well, turns out Beckett and Paige knew each other in college, and Fate has decided to bring them together again. The first scene where they reconnect is hilarious, even if Beckett doesn’t even recognize her. The moment these two are thrown together again the story takes off and never slows down. There is instant chemistry but just as much resistance, caution, uncertainty and fear. Beckett is dragging a lot of baggage around and isn’t sure he can ever be the kind of man he should be. He lost his mother at a young age and blames himself. He doesn’t think his mother would be proud of what he’s done, who he’s become but he is lost. Paige’s free-spirited, unreliable mother has always been reluctant to discuss her father, says he was never in the picture and didn’t want to be. Couple that with Paige’s betrayal by her husband and her brain will not allow trust to enter where Beckett is concerned.
But as readers and listeners we know better, don’t we? They are adorable together. How different might things have been if she had agreed to go out with him in college? We’ll never know, but now she does agree to sell his house and they end up spending a lot of time with each other. As friends of course. Listening to old classic 60s and 70s songs, watching sports and movies “together” on their phones when he’s on the road, and talking, talking, talking, talking. There’s a lot happening, including surprises and complications, mistrust, heartbreak, a lot of humor and some moments so, so sweet that your hand will immediately fly over your heart.
Thanks to author G. K. Brady for providing an audiobook of Taming Beckett. I enjoyed it so much; you can read any of wonderful books in the series in any order, but going back to the beginning is how you should do it. The narration was perfect: pacing, voices, immerses you into the story. Taming Beckett has a very satisfying ending, an excellent epilogue, and sets up characters and events you can’t wait to see more of in the prequel and all the rest of the books in the series. Get started now. You’ll love it. I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own.… (més)