Talking Dirty with the Player (Talking Dirty, #2) (Entangled Indulgence)

by Jackie Ashenden

[Angie]

Talking Dirty with the Player is a brother’s best friend, second chance romance. Eight years ago, Caleb took Jude’s virginity, then promptly dumped her. She’s never gotten over it, and he knows he was an idiot. Now, Caleb needs to hire Jude to shoot the photos for his charity calendar. After a few rough meetings, the two are right back where they started, but now they have a different set of problems than they did as teens.

Second chance romances are tricky, because the characters already know each other, so it’s easy to skip over the relationship development. Sadly, this is the case in Talking Dirty with the Player. They go straight from reuniting to her thinking he’s changed and him suddenly wanting to make it work more with her than he wants this new job. Immediately after that they’re fighting, because a reporter jumps at them while they’re out and Jude doesn’t like that. She says it happens every time they go out, but that was the only time they were in public together, so it seemed like part of the story had been cut. Of course, they get back together, but then they have the same fight again!

Talking Dirty with the Player just didn’t work out for me. I didn’t feel like I got know each character, and I certainly never got to know them as a couple. They spend most of the book fighting or finding reasons not to be together rather than just being together. It was disappointing.

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