Bad enough Jade Frost’s boyfriend drags her to a
boring poker game. Even worse that he actually threw her into the betting pot
during an intense round…and lost. Talk about the perfect excuse for Jade to
make him her ex-boyfriend.Now she supposedly belongs to the ultra rich, extremely gorgeous Shep Prescott. He could have anything he wants yet he seems to be in hot pursuit of her. No matter how rude, how snarky, how impossible she acts, it doesn’t stop him. More like her horrible behavior seems to make him want her more.
When she finds herself starting to fall for him, Jade’s confused. There’s more to Shep than the carefree rich charmer he portrays. No way could he want a serious relationship with her…or could he?
Review
“I touch
her cheek, drift my fingers across her soft skin and when she sighs, the
softest sound I’ve ever hear, I feel it right to the very depths of my soul.”
I am a huge Monica Murphy fan, she won me over with the One
Week Girlfriend series and now I can’t stop reading her books. I haven’t been
disappointed yet and Fair Game is no exception. I loved this book. There were
parts that I didn’t care for but I think it made me enjoy the story even more
overall. The characters were great and the storyline was done well and
unexpected. When you get the rich guy poor girl romance some parts can seem predictable
but Monica Murphy created twists that I wasn’t expecting.
“I can
smell her now, sweet and clean and I clamp my lips shut, breathing through my
nose, trying my best not to inhale her. I really want to fucking inhale her.”
Shep Prescott is the rich player on campus. He can have
anyone and anything he wants whenever he wants it. Jade Frost is the opposite
of Shep. She is a girl that cares about her grades and she is definitely poor.
When her boyfriend bets her in a poker game Shep decides that he will do anything
to collect on the bet. Even after Jade slaps him in the face. Jade is doing
everything she can to make Shep not want to claim his winnings. The more time
Jade spends with Shep the more she sees herself giving in to him and maybe even
falling for him. Shep doesn’t see the importance of getting serious in college,
but for some reason Jade has gotten under his skin and he can’t seem to let her
go. One and done is not going to apply to Jade and he doesn’t know how to deal
with everything he is feeling.
“She’s
frowning, her eyebrows draw together and damn it, I love every look she wears.
When she’s happy, when she’s sad, when she’s mad, when she’s aroused, confused…
All of them. Every single one. I want every expression, every sound, every word
she says. I want to know about all of them, I want them to be all for me and no
one else.”
From the very first page Jade had me. The minute we meet her
character she is talking shit about Shep, right behind. She is trying to be
quite but you know he can hear her. Jade is sassy and kind of a bitch. But the
kind of bitch you can’t help but love. She doesn’t care what anyone else thinks
of her. While she is judgey when it comes to Shep, his money and popularity doesn’t
have any effect what so ever on her opinion of people. Shep’s chapters where
extremely honest. We got to work through his feelings on the things he did in
his past. We really got to follow him through his player ways into someone who
wanted more out of life. I loved both of their characters individually as well
as together. One minute they could be having a sweet moment and then, it’s like
a light switch, they go to yelling at each other. Both of the characters had
their problems but it worked.
“Sometimes
it’s like she can barely tolerate me and I sort of like that too. It’s weird.”
There were definitely some interesting side characters. Jade’s
best friend was funny in her own way. She was slightly more promiscuous but she
also helped Jade some out of her shell. She let Jade complain about Shep but
also gave her the room to explore what was between them without judgement. Shep’s
best friend, Gabe, was someone that I am interested in knowing more but he kind
of bothered me. He was trying really hard to keep his friend from falling in
love and some of the things he said bothered me. Shep’s cousin Tristan was
someone I really didn’t like. He was on Shep’s case about the rules and getting
serious before college was over. He was the least supportive and the rudest
throughout the book.
“All I
can see, hear, taste, focus on is Shep. And it’s so go, so perfect I’m almost
scared. How can it get any better than this?”
Drama in a book is good when I am in the mood for it but I
loved the way Monica handled the drama in this book. The predictable split
happened before either of them got serious and it didn’t last very long. There
was so much tension and angst when they were together anything more than that
would have been overkill. Monica created a story that was filled with tension
but it wasn’t the drama filled tension and I loved it. Shep and Jade’s story
was unique in it’s own way while still having the beautiful writing that comes
with a Monica Murphy story. Fair game was filled with hot moment’s as well
swoon-worthy moments that made you fall in love with Shep and Jade. Fair Game
is definitely a book that needs to be picked up. I can’t wait for the next
books in The Rule series!
“Teasing
her. Wanting to drive her insane because holy fuck, she’s been driving me crazy
since the very first moment I met her. I set eyes on her in that mirror, heard
that smart mouth running a mile a minute as she sat behind me and I was hooked.
If anything, I’m more hooked now. Addicted. Desperate to have her. Desperate to
make her mine.”
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