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Fair Game (Women of W.A.R. Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Amy Andrews (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 3 of 4: Women of W.A.R.

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2019 RITA award finalist

Darcy
There's nothing I wouldn't do to play for the Brisbane Banshees in the new Women's Aussie Rules league. I think I've proved that given that I'm willing to put up with the coach being my ex, Tony. He may have stomped over my heart, but I've moved on, and I'm focused on my team. I don't need any men in my life-apart from Levi, of course, my roommate, and friend. And my saviour, now that I've corked my thigh in our first game, and need his sports massage skills to get me back on the field. What I feel when Levi touches me ... is making things very complicated.

Levi
Darcy was always my best friend's girl-Tony's girl. Two years on and she still doesn't know how I've felt all this time. There's no way I'm leaving her in pain when I can fix her injury and get her back to playing the sport she loves. No matter how much touching her makes me want to make her mine at last. Finally, I've got a bit of hope-the last thing we need is Tony suddenly deciding he wants to take Darcy back after all...

Other books available in The Women of W.A.R. series: Game On by Nicola Marsh
Long Game by Catherine Evans

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Amy is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling Aussie author who has written sixty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. She's sold over two million books and been translated into over a dozen languages. Her books bring all the feels from sass, quirk and laughter to emotional grit and panty-melting heat. She loves good books and great booze although she'll take mediocre booze if there's nothing else. For many, many years she was a registered nurse which means she knows things. Anatomical things. And she's not afraid to use them! She lives on acreage with a gorgeous mountain view but secretly wishes for a view of the Pacific.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B076CD2XYW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Escape Publishing (February 1, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 532 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 170 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,985,494 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,325 in Sports Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #4,511 in Sports Romance (Kindle Store)
- #5,535 in Sports Fiction (Books)

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Amy is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling, double RITA nominated, Aussie author who has written eighty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. Her books bring all the feels from sass, quirk and laughter to emotional grit and panty-melting heat.

She loves good books and great booze although she'll take mediocre booze if there's nothing else. For many, many years she was a registered nurse which means she knows things. Anatomical things. And she’s not afraid to use them!

She lives in a pretty little coastal town where she gets to look at the ocean all day.

Read a FREE novella here - https://dl.bookfunnel.com/c8zivd3ujo.

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esm4

Romance featuring a female sports lead

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2018

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Another winner from Amy Andrews. I've really enjoyed every book of hers that I've read. I've been reading her Sydney Smoke series that features teammates on a male rugby team, so I was excited to read a book that featured a female Aussie Rules football player and I wasn't disappointed. Darcy was a great heroine - strong, determined, talented, and overjoyed to finally realize her dream of playing for a professional ball club. Meanwhile, Levi was a wonderful hero, a genuinely nice guy who was so supportive of her dreams and her lifestyle. I also loved that she didn't waste any time on her ex and his mind games and she didn't let him drag her down.

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018

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I loved the story. It was a hot, fun read. I look forward to reading more of your books. 😃

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Firewhiskey Reader

Novellas are just so short.

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2018

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This is a personal thing, but I just think I would have enjoyed this more if it was longer and there was more fleshed out. It's a solid friends to lovers, with a bit of a love triangle. Just not quite enough for what I wanted.

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warpammer

This game gets 3 stars cuz it's. . . just fair to middlin'

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2018

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I've read a fair amount of Amy Andrews and the only generalization I can make is that her work is not consistent. At least my reaction to it isn't. I expected to enjoy Fair Game because I really like her Sydney Smoke series. Up to a point, I did enjoy it too. I'll start with the pluses, then move on to the point when things really started to disintegrate for me.

Our heroine, Darcy, has just won herself a spot in the brand new professional Women's Australian Rules Football League. I looked up the unfamiliar sport on The Google, and it seemed so fascinating, fast and lively with very cool uniforms. Also, woman athletes for the win! Darcy is a down to earth working girl who's been burnt in a past relationship--not a drama queen at all. She loves her work in the garden center and takes great joy in her sport, which is a necessity since new professional women's sports don't come with a lot of instant celebrity perks. Or any. The only fly in this ointment is that her coach is her ex. Happily this doesn't inspire a lot of drama either because our heroine is a genuine grownup.

Darcy's biggest source of support is her roommate, Levi. Levi is the ex's former best friend and a holdover from the time of that defunct relationship. He is very good at adulting as well. Also, Levi is adorable. A massage therapist and yoga instructor, he is the ultimate beta hero from the tip of his frothy blonde man bun to the soles of his size 14 feet. In the opening chapters both Darcy and Levi have furtive moments of attraction that they shrug aside because Darcy needs to focus 100% on her sport.

There is a great scene of a Christmas spent with team members and Levi that totally evokes the best of the created family theme. The reader gets very little family background on either Darcy or Levi so interraction with a group of friends is important to give them dimensions beyond their impending couplehood. Sadly there is never enough actual sports action and Darcy's teamates never get enough page time after that. I know that the short format imposes constraints, but this was disappointing to me.

I had some issues with Levi early on. He seemed a bit too good to be true--too perfectly beta. He always seemed to have the perfect responses to Darcy, but she was mostly kind of oblivious. This contrast in their characters came across as somewhat unbalanced to me.

Needless-to*say, Darcy and Levi eventually confess their mutual attraction in a refreshingly non-dramatic manner. Then they schtup like bunnies, and the whole thing fell apart for me. Is that a spoiler? Naaah, cuz you knew they'd make with the schtupping, didn't you?

Here's why it fell apart. The sex scenes were the most long drawn out, over adjectival fragment fests I've encountered in ages. I had to start skipping the dirty bits because of all the wordy sh*t. Explicit doesn't bother me; bad writing does. Snore pie with yawn sauce, as Red Fraggle would say.

Yet the fundamentally trite sex scenes were accented by some fairly violent metaphors. Usually that stuff doesn't bother me if I even notice it at all. But for some reason--maybe the lack of other forms of drama--it really stood out. It seemed a placeholder for the emotional intensity that was lacking. Conflict, when it finally occured, was totally manufactured fake drama.

In addition, the grammatical errors seemed to escalate after that point. The book really needed a much more vigilant editor. Grammar is a bugbear of mine, so my eyes were kept rolling even when the protagonists had all their clothes on. I don't know if the grammar actually got worse in the latter half of the book, or if I was just desperately seeking a distraction from embarrassing sex scenes.

The ending was the standard Big Gesture and kind of rushed, and I was left mourning the lack of actual game in the book. Overall, the author gets points for the unusual twist on sports romance and the mostly likable main characters, but loses ground on the actual romance elements and poor editing. So, 3 stars.

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2018

Fair Game takes us to Brisbane and the Brisbane Banshees, another women's Aussie Rules football team. This time Darcy has to see past Levi's friendship and support to the love beneath. Is she brave enough to embrace both his love and her desire to play professional football? Will she have to choose between the two?

I started out feeling impatient with Levi and Darcy as they danced around their attraction for each other. And then my frustration ratcheted up another notch when Darcy's ex came back into the picture and started making moves on her. That put a sour taste in my mouth and had me wanting to skim through the story. Her ex was a total douche canoe. Fortunately, Ms Andrews didn't linger there too long but at the same time, I wanted Darcy and Levi to get a move on.

I loved Levi. He's kind, supportive and understanding. He's total best friend material and unfortunately, while he's in love with Darcy, he's also friend-zoned himself. Willing to have her in his life any way he can. Levi has the patience of a saint. He really does. While he's waiting for Darcy to finish her football season and come to her senses about her feelings for him, he's willing to wait for her. And he's even willing to wait further when Darcy decides her football career is more important. That made me a bit cross with Darcy because why can't she have both? Women can multi-task and have a life as well as a career.

Darcy frustrated me, if you haven't guessed that already. She's dedicated and hardworking, and totally focused on her football career to the exclusion of all else. She doesn't think she can have both, it's either one or the other. When faced with a terrible injury, she was determined and focused about getting back into playing shape. I admired her willpower in getting over her injury. On the relationship front, I wanted to shake her.

I'm glad I took a chance with this series. I've enjoyed the stories and I've enjoyed learning more about the sport, and seeing the sacrifices these women have to make in order to play a sport they love and be nationally recognised. I've only recently come to realise that there's an Australian Women's Rugby League who represent Australia on the world stage. I think I'm going to have to find out more about them. They've been around since the mid-90s. I like it when real life and romance intersect. If you're looking for a sports romance and wanting a story that features women in sports, I recommend this series.

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