The Play

By: Elle Kennedy

Narrated by: Ana Osorio, Teddy Hamilton

A brand-new stand-alone novel in the New York Times best-selling Briar U series!

What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate...no matter how hard that makes things.

But there’s nothing in the rulebook that says I can’t be friends with a woman. And I won’t lie - my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she’s got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her.

Except three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound.

And she’s making a play for me.

Avoiding her is impossible. We’re paired up on a yearlong school project, but I’m confident I can resist her. We’d never work, anyway. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren’t aligned, and her parents hate my guts.

Hooking up is a very bad idea. Now I just have to convince my body - and my heart.

©2019 Elle Kennedy (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Teddy Hamilton's narration was the best part!

I hesitated to write this review, but I was disappointed with this audiobook. Teddy Hamilton's narration was wonderful! He does a great job with tone and inflection. I lose myself in the story and feel what the characters are feeling whenever he narrates. Plus his voice is wonderful to listen to! The female narrator was a disappointment. Her voice was fine, but she mispronounced words frequently. I found myself cringing and waiting for it each chapter she narrated. I also thought she used the wrong emotion or tone many times. Her narration actually distracted me from the story.

I am a fan of Elle Kennedy and her Off-Campus series were some of the first audiobooks I loved. I purchased this book even though I did not like the second Briar U as much as the The Chase. Then this book sat in my library for four months and I couldn't get into the story. I finally listened to the whole thing and it felt like a chore. I had a hard time connecting with the characters. There were parts that I thought were unnecessary and others that I would have appreciated more details. For example, Hunter's relationship with his parents. It's discussed but there were no scenes with his parents. Demi's interactions with her parents were frequent, but her relationship with her father confused me. Demi's father treats her like she is smart and strong one minute and then belittles her the next?

I didn't feel warm and fuzzy and satisfied at the end of this book. I just felt relieved it was over.

Narration 50/50

The female narrator has a nice voice, but her word enunciations and inflections were off AND her mispronunciation of simple words was very distracting in the story. Teddy Hamilton, as always, is fantastic!!

Worst book from Kennedy

The number of stereotypical Latina descriptions that were used made me wildly uncomfortable. Demi was not like able as a character and the narrator didn’t help. They mispronounced so many words and just had an overall grating intonation. I’ve been obsessed with the rest of Kennedy’s books so hopefully this is just a one off.

new to books

this is my second book ever to read and listen to and I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I loved the spicy parts loved the ending. loved the narrators and story. everything was amazing. 10/10 chief kisses.

Good Story…

The female narrator’s male voices are horrible. Why can’t the male do all of the male parts. I know schedule the narrators simultaneously could be a problem but splice the narrations together. And there were mispronunciations by both narrators. Anyway I really liked the story and do recommend it.