Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Trick Play

SERIES: Fake Boyfriend #2

AUTHOR: Eden Finley

PUBLISHER: Self-published

LENGTH: 328 pages

RELEASE DATE: June 24, 2018

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Matt:

Want to know the fastest way to get screwed out of a football career? Get photographed in a compromising position in a gay bar. Yep, welcome to my life.
My agent says he can fix my image. He wants me to become the poster boy for gay football players. Me? I just want back on the field. I’ll do anything to play for the NFL again, even pretend to have a steady boyfriend. If only my fake boyfriend wasn’t Noah Huntington III—the most arrogant, entitled rich guy in the world.

Noah:

Pretend to be Matt Jackson’s boyfriend, my best friend said. It’ll be fun, he said. What Damon neglected to mention is Matt is surly and bitter. Being his boyfriend is a job in itself. From his paranoia over being constantly photographed to his aversion to PDA, being with Matt isn’t the care-free fake relationship I expected when I signed on to do this.
It’s supposed to be a win-win. I get to stick it to my politician dad who thinks no one is good enough for the Huntington name, and Matt’s reputation of being the bad boy of football dies.
What I don’t expect is to start caring for the guy. That’s not part of the plan. Then again, neither is fooling around with him on my private jet.
Oops.

REVIEW:

This is a fun series. It really is. And this book definitely had it’s funny moments, because if you remember Noah from book 1, yeah, he’s a hoot.

So, if you haven’t read book one, go do so. You will be kind of lost without it. For those who have, you remember in 1, Matt was forced out of the closet when he was in a club. His friend Maddox, was there for him. (Which caused some contention with Damon.) But Damon ended up signing Matt as his first big contract. Then decided to have his cocky friend Noah help play Matt’s boyfriend for a bit to help smooth the waters.

From the beginning, Matt didn’t want to have anything physical with Noah. Noah, being flirty as ever, tried but failed. At first. Noah, of course, was going to pass up a good time, but also he figured it might help ease some tension a bit and show them as more of being ‘in love’. Noah was used to be in the spotlight. He wanted it to ease for Matt. Matt decided he wanted to after all and the Noah was hedging. They got it together, though. Under one condition. It stayed casual. That was the rule. But over the next few weeks, they really started to get to know each other. They shared their pasts. What made them tick and why they were the way they were. When Matt finally snags a contract, though, things finally start to become truthful between each other. They broke the rule. And to make matters worse, the past was making its way forward in certain situations. And it was time for both of them to basically ‘put up or shut up’. But whether they could do it or not was the question.

Matt just got a raw deal from the get go. Having to hide who he was from the beginning. His past as far as his ‘family’ goes and what they’ve done to him, and now being outed in a club, because he let his guard down for just a minute to blow off steam. Yeah. So not fair. Don’t you just love how assholes think they have to know everyone’s business? Fun times. And now, he’s got a fake boyfriend to try to smooth matters over. It infuriates him that’s he’s now going to be known as that gay football player, instead of being known for how he plays. And Noah is making him crazy with the flirting. Well, good crazy but he don’t want to admit that. No one should ever have to put up with that mess.

But Noah makes things interesting, to say the least. He’s flirty, sassy amd makes Matt forget his troubles in the most delicious ways. But Noah has a side to him most people don’t get to see. He’s actually a sweetheart with a huge heart. He puts up a front as a defense to keep from getting hurt. His father has made things difficult for him and he agrees to this fake boyfriend media circus to stick it to him. But Matt makes Noah see things different. Makes him feel things he swore he never would. They really are good for each other. But of course, life has a way of trying to mess you. They just have to overcome it and figure out what’s more important.

After meeting some new characters in this book, I already know who is next, but there’s a few I would like to see the story on. There’s some tension floating around and it’s sparking flames everywhere.

Good book and good series. I’m excited to read the next one.

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