Play Dirty

After 5 long years in federal jail, Griff Burkett may be a free man. however the discredited Cowboys quarterback will ne'er come to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. in an exceedingly place wherever soccer is much a faith, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and nobody is forgiving.

Foster Speakman, owner and chief executive officer of SunSouth Airlines, and his married woman, Laura, are a golden couple. productive and moneyed, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly intervened and denied them the one factor they needed most -- a baby. It's same that money can't obtain everything. however it should buy a discredited athlete contemporary out of jail and out of prospects.

The job Griff agrees to try to to for the Speakmans demands secrecy. however he before long finds himself another time within the spotlight of suspicion. associate degree unresolved murder comes back to haunt him within the type of his nemesis, Stanley Rodarte, WHO has created Griff's destruction his life's mission. whereas safeguarding his new enterprise, Griff should additionally shield those around him, particularly Laura Speakman, from Rodarte's ruthlessness. Griff stands to realize the best payoff he may ever imagine, however cashing in thereon would force him to forfeit his solely likelihood for redemption...and love.

Griff is currently enjoying a high-stakes game, and at the ultimate whistle, one player are dead.

Play Dirty is Sandra Brown's wildest ride nonetheless, with pin turns of plot right along the approach. The clock is ticking down on a fallen soccer star, WHO lost everything owing to the approach he compete the sport. currently his future -- his life -- hinges on one last play.

Disclaimer: Sandra Brown is one in every of my incomparable  favorite authors. If I ever get off my lazy butt and truly write one thing, her variety of writing appeals to Pine Tree State and that i would wish to emulate that to the most effective of my ability.

So I'm returning at this review a touch biased. however i will be able to attempt my best to be objective and truthful.

I haven't scan a Sandra Brown book in quite it slow. principally as a result of I'm on a Kindle Unlimited kick and that i refuse to pay cash for books once I have such a big amount of choices at my fingertips for $10 greenbacks a month through Kindle Unlimited.

I was therefore shocked once I saw a Sandra Brown book appear in Kindle Unlimited that I snatched it up.

The reviews on this story shocked Pine Tree State a touch, a minimum of on GoodReads - it's four.3 out of 5 on Amazon.

I sometimes blow over the reviews on GoodReads as hostile the reviews on Amazon as I even have found my peeps on GoodReads appear to align with my preferences higher.

But Play Dirty on GoodReads solely has three.92 stars out of 5.

And I suppose i do know why.

The premise of the story is uncommon and ethically questionable. It's distressing however fascinating at an equivalent time and that's an outsized reason why I liked  it; it had been totally different and attention-grabbing. Most stories follow a definite format and that i appreciated the very fact that this story failed to.

At first, i used to be a touch repulsed by the premise. A moneyed couple obtain a stud. Our star quarterback essentially prostitutes himself bent on retreat to on security and initially, you don't like Griff however you'll perceive his desperation and reasons why he may conceive to do that deed, although you will not am passionate about it a great deal.

And although the explanations why the rich couple go this route as hostile alternative additional standard routes is sensible ... in an exceedingly unconventional, okay it's your cash and if you're willing to try to to this fashion then choose it.

Still weird. however attention-grabbing enough to stay Pine Tree State reading.

What I completely enjoyed from this story was the unpredictability. Nearly each state of affairs took Pine Tree State somewhere I wasn't expecting. It's like Ms. Brown need to a cushty spot in her story, stopped and thought, "what new hell am i able to place these characters through?" and that i favorite it. i buy therefore uninterested in reading stories that follow a formula. True, writers will vary however they get to the solution of the matter however ultimately, we tend to all get there eventually.

And although this story ultimately reaches a satisfactory ending, it's additional of a sensible ending.

I like uncommon, real stories. Life is untidy and peculiar and confusing from time to time and although the premise of this story is uncommon and certain not probable, it's potential. that on behalf of me, is that the solely factor needed. I should buy just about something if leading up to the case is feasible.

Truth extremely IS interloper than fiction.

I liked  however Griff wasn't a moneyed, asshole alpha male. Wait, let Pine Tree State iterate that, he was till he cheated and landed himself in jail. i really like however Brown started the story in the end of that occurred although it might be attention-grabbing to scan a story regarding Griff's life BEFORE he visited jail, too.

Griff is majorly imperfect. He allowed his greed and massive ego to overshadow sense and it landed him in big hassle. therefore once he was discharged from jail, he wasn't broken however he was actually totally different.

When you're 1st introduced to Griff, he's a douche. He cheated. He visited jail. he's trying to find a quick buck to induce his life back on course. everybody hates him owing to what he did. He's just about at all-time low of the barrel and initially, your sympathies couple Foster, a wheelchair-bound man simply making an attempt to attain his greatest want, to possess a baby. I didn't extremely feel a lot of for Laura initially. She's simply the vehicle stuck between the 2 men doing what she is being told. If something, I felt impatient along with her and couldn't perceive why she would go beside her husband's uncommon request.

But then, Brown starts to throw Pine Tree State bits and items of character backstory and motivations and suddenly my interest piques and my sympathies shift.

And rather than giving Pine Tree State these tidbits all promptly, Brown will a good job of spoon feeding Pine Tree State additional and more because the story progresses so by the top, it's not an equivalent story you began with.

I favorite that side of the story.

I additionally extremely love however Brown writes. She provides barely enough detail to put you within the scene however leaves out enough for your imagination to kick in and fill in the blanks. Her dialogue was snappy and realistic and also the story simply unbroken moving forward. I didn't extremely want there have been any stagnant elements, each half had one thing attention-grabbing.

Though the elements wherever Griff and Laura meet for the primary few times are implausibly awkward and cringe worthy, it had been presumptive and alarming at an equivalent time. Brown placed those characters in associate degree not possible scenario and nonetheless somehow, they created it work.

Whenever I stop to believe story concepts for my very own writing, this can be the type of plot I'm trying to find. i need to jot down one thing that creates my reader squirm, shift loyalties and be shocked. i need {to write|to write down|to place in writing|to jot down} regarding untidy lives and awkward things and put my characters through hell. This story will all of that and Brown does a superb job of leveling totally different genres,: mystery, thriller, romance, into one cohesive, entertaining  scan.

I'm galvanized.