Only Work, No Play

Tough Games Series, Book 1

By: Cora Reilly

Narrated by: Tom Kennedy, Emma Wilder

After two years of taking care of her heartbroken father, Evie needs a new start. Leaving the States and following her sister to Australia to work as the personal assistant of rugby star Xavier "The Beast" Stevens seems like the right kind of distraction.  

Tall, muscled, and devilishly handsome, Xavier is the love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. He never forgets a girl's name because he never bothers to remember it in the first place. Evie soon realizes that being Xavier's assistant is a 24/7 job; the man seems unwilling to even set an alarm for himself.  

As she watches him move from one woman to the next, Evie is glad that her heart is safe from his attention. After all, she's a far cry from the size zero models he usually takes to his bed.  

But soon being around Xavier doesn't feel like a job and seeing him walk around his apartment half naked all the time isn't helping either. Evie knows that giving in to her attraction will lead to heartbreak, but when Xavier starts treating her as more than just his assistant, resisting his charms seems like an impossible task.

©2019 Cora Reilly (P)2019 Tantor

Review

Story set in Australia which gives a little more interest. It’s about a womanizing all star jock who hires a chubby assistant and well you’ve got the whole story right there. Not this authors best effort. I’m in love with her Mafia series though. So read that instead.

Rugby Love

I enjoyed the story and the audio was fine for most of it. I found the female voices annoying when it was an Xavier chapter, they were whiney and very off. They should've remained the same as when it was the Evie chapters.

well...

A few things, their accents for each other were horrible..lol..cute story though...I just hate how much she brung up her weight..her insecurities were annoying... her sister was absolutely obnoxious..still a cute story nonetheless

Ok Story, awful narrator

The story was ok. It seemed to be quickly thrown together. The characters behaved in a way that few humans actually behave. He gorgeous and secretly gives to charity but lacks any other qualities that would make any woman actually want to date him. The story was predictable but ultimately just served as a vehicle to string sex scenes together. I almost stopped listening because of the narration. The female voice was okay but struggles with accents. The male voice had the worst “female” voice I have ever heard. It was a caricature of a female voice. So bad

Male voice for female was hilarious!

The story was great. It was sweet yet full of humor and I thoroughly enjoyed the story. The female narrator did a great job for both voices but the male narrators voice for the woman sounded like a cartoon character. Really bad. It would be better if they just use the female for vote both voices rather than the way it was done. It was still a super cute book.