Book Review: Role Play

 

She wanted to write a bestseller. She wasn't ready for the plot twist.

Being an indie romance author was supposed to be a dream come true. But after publishing umpteen books, I still haven’t “made it” and now I’m just waiting for the dark cloak of insignificance to completely snuff out my career.

I decide to roll the dice on a marketing guru who swears he can yank me out of obscurity. But after a frantic search for “book boyfriend material” and an unexpected bar encounter, I accidentally blow my entire budget on an escort.

Forrest is a charming single dad by day and hotter-than-sin escort by night. But before I can fire him and ask for a refund, he reminds me how I got here in the first place… I’m in desperate need of inspiration.

He might be a walking red flag, but Forrest is ready to be my muse, which means spending the next three months helping me “research” my next bestseller. (Hey, I’m manifesting here.) Our game plan? Act out all the romance novel tropes that make a bingeable love brooding billionaires, masked men, cowboys in small towns, and even swoon-worthy green flags.

Forrest plays all the book boyfriend parts perfectly. So perfectly I’m starting to wonder if his feelings for me might be real, or if he’s just earning his paycheck. I’m not sure if I’m trying to write a love story or live one out.

After all, there is no such thing as happily ever after with a professional escort…right?


My Review
I love Kay's books. Yet, there was something about this one that really just thrilled me so much. I love my indie authors and am a big campaign of them. So, to see how much Sora was struggling to make it into the book world with a big-time agent rejecting her and not to mention having another author "trash" her writing to promote her own work is sadly relatable to present day. In the case of this book, the "evil" author is Tila, who we "hate".

Forrest and Sora have a memorable "meet cute". It spawns one of Sora's nicknames, "Cookie Girl". I smiled every time that Forrest called Sora by this nickname. The other nickname is a funny one of "Conch Shell". If you want to know how Sora got this nickname, you will have to read the book. 

As a reader of romance books, I absolutely loved all the references to the various tropes. To have Forrest and Sora play them out was so fun. I laughed so hard at one of Forrest's buddy's explanations to PNR Romance. He described it as " vibrating d!cks and knotting"! ROFL!!

If you want to know more and life vicariously through Sora and Forrest as they role play out all the popular book tropes, then you have to read this book. 

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