BOOK REVIEW: The Player by Claire Contreras

Title: The Player
Author: Claire Contreras
Genre: Contemporary Romace

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I'm naturally gifted on the field and between the sheets. With flashy cars and enough media attention to put the Royal Family to shame, I’m the definition of Most Eligible Bachelor. 

I've never met a man who doesn't want to be me or a woman who doesn't want to tame me. Until I meet Camila. 

From the moment I lay eyes on her, I know I have to have her.

She wants to keep me at arm's length.

I want her naked in my bed.

She thinks our worlds are too different.

All I want her to think about is screaming my name.

She says I’m bad news.

I have three weeks to prove her wrong.

There was never a Claire Contreras book that I hated and after reading The Player, she continuously proves that she is incapable of writing a bad book. This book has me in spades. Steamy, sensual, and exhilarating. Plus, there’s a very half-naked Warren Silva on the cover. I’m definitely sold! 

She wasn’t my New York Girl. She was my game changer.

Camila was comfortable within her own cocoon. So when the Belmontes posted a threat of demolishing her and her friends’ home, she knew she had to put up a fight. Only, she didn’t know that a greater threat in the guise of Warren Silva was part of the package. Camila was passion dressed as tenderness. Something in her was a huge spark of character and it only needs a little rekindling. There were times when she was held back by her pampered way of living as a child but her soul was a seat of liberty. I loved how she was unassuming and honest rather than a woman driven by insecurities. 

War Zone, a god on the field. I had a reputation for bedding different women in different cities.

Warren Silva reveled on his fame and success and he wanted to keep it that way. Football brought that to him. Football was his life. Well, until he found out a new way of living. Hot, determined, cocky, and confident would be a few words that could perfectly describe Warren Silva. And for the significant parts of this book, his playful, dominant streak was so so hot to read. However, the new Warren inspired by love and empathy was something that definitely caught my heart. 

"You’re the best person I’ve ever met, Camila, and I don’t deserve you, but I need you. Even in your absence, my love for you grows.”

As highly suggested by this book cover, the story was off-the-charts hot! But that’s the thing about a Claire Contreras book, there’s always smoking, steamy scenes but the heart of it resounds the greatest. What I loved about the player was it wasn’t just a book with sex all over the pages. Don’t get me wrong, the sex scenes are steamy as fuck. But what resounded more to me was it being a book about two very different people with very different visions changed by their love for each other. I’m freaking obsessed with this book. The brilliant way Miss Claire worked the equal parts of hotness and sweetness in this book owned me.