People like to see the womanizing jerk fall…the one who takes the number, but never calls? The guy who beds and never weds? Everyone wants to see that guy fall in love, right? Pfft. Sounds like a script straight out of one of the box office movies my clients make.Get your head out of the clouds because in real life the arrogant player doesn’t fall head over heels for the feisty brunette. Unless … brunette.
Unless the feisty brunette met him years before he’d perfected his cool demeanor. Unless she carved a spot out of his heart that never fully healed.
Our first meeting kick started my heart. Fourteen years later, our reunion was less heart and more kick. Turns out Quinn is just as hot and bothered to see me as I am her and I have the head injury to prove it.
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Oh my gawd!!!!! Jagger was such an ass in the previous two books and I couldn’t wait to see who would put him in his place. Let me just say that I loved Quinn she’s a strong, beautiful, one helluva woman who definitely gave Jagger a run for his money in more ways than one. This is a read you won’t be able to put down because it will seduce you, charm you, lure you in and sweep you off your feet! Be prepared to be swooned with the man you thought was the biggest manwhore ever!
I put off reading this one because I was a bit disappointed in Leo’s story. However, I wish I had read this one sooner. Jagger’s story was so enjoyable. Watching him unexpectedly run across the woman who has always held his heart and then determine to win her back was so fun and touching. Well edited.
Throughout the last couple of books there have been hints of the woman still holding Jagger’s heart. In this one, we finally find out who she is and what happened. Turns out, Jagger broke his own heart – as well as Quinn’s – in a misguided attempt to set her free. They were friends from the time they were young teens, seeing each other every summer when Quinn came to stay next door with her father. Eventually, summer friendship turned to summer love. Quinn was prepared to move in with her father permanently to be near Jagger, but he was getting ready to go off to college. What’s a guy to do to dissuade his girl from upending her life for him? Why, break her heart of course. Fourteen years later, Quinn has quietly moved back to LA to be near her father. She has hired a cleaning service, but forgot to cancel when she got a cold. Jagger’s longtime nanny and pseudo-mother figure gets sick herself and enlists Jagger to take over the cleaning duties for her new client. Guess who that is? Jagger is stunned to find the new client is his old love. Beginning that day, he sets out to get her to forgive him for the past and let him into her present and future. Will Jagger succeed? Will Quinn forgive? What happens when Jagger finds she has a secret of her own? Will Jagger forgive her?
As always, there are great funny moments. It is wonderful to read about Jagger, and how underneath his tough ‘I-get-everything-I-want-because-I-am-Jagger’ exterior lies a really thoughtful, sweet, caring man. Enjoy!
I have yet to be disappointed by a Piper Rayne book and I’m happy to say that Chore Play is just as amazing as all of the other books in the Dirty Truth series!! Every time they write a man who I just want to strangle (this isn’t the first one…), they always redeem him in one hell of a story!
We met Jagger in The Manny and Doggy Style and I have to say, manwhore at his finest. I was bound and determined that Jagger was just a player. He’s a one and done type of guy who could care less about what other people think. Commitment is not something that he is looking for..until someone from his past comes right back into his life.
Quinn is an independent woman who was burned by Jagger when they were kids. Fourteen years later, he is back in her life and she is not going to fall for him and get her heart broken again. But Jagger is just not going to let her go this time..and the fun begins!
Jagger and Quinn are just hot together. Their banter is amazing and their sexual chemistry was off the charts! Jagger has to deal with what he did to Quinn in the past and she has to deal with what he’s been up to since their last encounter.
Chore Play has everything you could want in a book! Wonderful characters, a charming man, a funny and oh so sexy! A definite must read!
Awesome read.
Cocky , arrogant businessman, that describes Jagger Kale to a tee. Enter Quinn a ex from his past and watch Jagger and his swagger get knocked down a peg or two. I thought when I started this book series that Jagger would never change his ways , but when you find your one true love that can change everything
Jagger’s story was probably one of the most anticipated reads because I’m sure that I wasn’t the only one that couldn’t wait to see one of the biggest womanizers retiring from his game and settling down.
Once again this author duo brought us a well written, sweet and funny romance, this time about a guy who we got to know as Leo and Vance’s best friend, a businessman and playboy. He’s self-assured, smart, gave his all in everything he did, was a winning man in business as well as in his private life and he never settled for anything less than the best.
Quinn owned Jagger’s heart once and there had never been another one like her because she’s the only one he ever wanted to settle down with. After all these years, he finally found her and now was his chance to have her back again or else lose her forever.
Back in the day she was a sweet girl, but she’s neither innocent nor naive anymore and Jagger had to up his game. He was a master when it came to getting what he wanted though, so it’s just a matter of time until she gave in to his charm.
This book was the very best regarding the fun factor because I absolutely loved the razzing from Victoria, and Quinn’s witty remarks to Jagger’s cocky comments. It had the most funniest scenes of all Piper Rayne’s books. I laughed so hard.
If I could have changed one thing, it would have been the seemingly easy second chance that happened. Although it was not really easy and they had a lot to work through, it just felt a bit too smooth for me, especially regarding Jagger’s history with women. The story was still awesome and I liked Jagger a lot but after all those years womanizing, he gave up his bachelor life rather easily. But I guess when the right person comes into your life, there’s just no doubt, right?!
Jagger had a big heart for the few people he’s let in and although he didn’t like to show his vulnerable side, we did get a tiny glimpse of it, which made him so much more loveable.
One of my highlights in this book was the short appearance of the characters from the Modern Love Series (my favorite btw) and I’m already waiting (im)patiently for the next very promising series! =)
I loved it what a great first read of the year and if all my reads continue this way I will be very happy.
I loved the angst of whether she would take him back but what he did to her was absolutely horrid, he had a good reason in his opinion however when Quinn gave Jagger her heart the first time and he broke her why would she chance it again.
** spoiler alert ** I really enjoyed the first two books of this series. I was looking forward to Jagger’s story. What I liked about this book was Quinn. She was sweet, funny and smart. What I didn’t like was Jagger. This is a second chance story, and what you need for this to be successful is for the characters to have matured to a point hat they now make sense. Jagger breaks up with Quinn when they are 16 in a very public, cruel and humiliating way. Fourteen years later they meet again. Jagger decides he still cares about her and wants another chance. While Quinn initially pushes back, she eventually acquiesces. Everything is going great and they are falling in love again when Jagger learns that Quinn, under a pseudonym, wrote a book about their teenage love affair. Jagger becomes angry at her because he comes off poorly. The guy cruelly and publicly dumps her, doesn’t call her for 14 years, barely apologizes and then gets angry with her for telling the truth in a fictional account of their life. He eventually comes around, but I was hoping she’d tell him to take a hike, she deserved better.
Chore Play, the third and final book in the Dirty Truth series, is a sweet and steamy second chance romance. If you’re like me and read the previous 2 books in this series, you’ve been anxiously awaiting Jagger’s story, to see just who it would be to turn this player into a one woman man. The fact that she was his first love, the one he let get away- or rather pushed away, was the icing on the cake!
Jagger, Jagger, Jagger. It’s always so fun to see a cocky, cocksure, manwhore humbled by that one, perfect-for-him, woman. In Jagger’s case, he met that woman when they were both teen-agers, but boy did he royally screw that up! Lucky for him, he’s got a second chance to prove to Quinn he’s not that same stupid boy. But he sure has his work cut out for him, as she’s had 14 years to harden her heart against him.
I really enjoyed the set-up for how these two met up again so many years later. It was a unique and fun take on the “meet-cute”. What led up to that reunion gave us a peek at a different side of Jagger, it showed his heart and made him more relatable- or should I say likable?!? I know his type of character- the player, the manwhore, the one who has a different woman every night- isn’t for everyone. And Jagger does come off a little arrogant and a bit of a jerk at times, but I really think he’s a very caring guy underneath it all and Piper Rayne showed this side of him when it came to his relationship with his old nanny.
I do love a good second chance romance, especially when it involves childhood friends. Jagger and Quinn could have been one of those fairytale romances, until he had to go and screw things up by doing what he thought was right, but was just so wrong. Now he’s got a chance to show Quinn he’s not that same stupid kid and he needs to bring his A-Game because Quinn’s not that same young girl whose heart he broke. I like that she’s a strong, independent woman who gave as good as she got. She was willing to open herself up, but still kept her heart guarded, and you can’t blame her for that!
Entertaining banter, engaging characters, some laughs, and some feels, Chore Play was a terrific way to wrap up the Dirty Truth series. I loved the way PR ties their series together, without the reader really needing or having to read any previous books. I’m looking forward to this next series, based on the Winter Olympics!
I have been privileged enough to be able to follow this dynamic duo since the beginning with The Bartender (Now renamed Charmed by the Bartender).
Chore Play is the final book in the Dirty Truth Series. You don’t have to read the first two (The Manny and Doggie Style) but I would highly recommend it! I actually recommend reading ALL their books, you see past characters again and again in each story! I love the play on words for the title, you’ll figure it out by the end of the book!
We are finally getting Jagger’s story and it was well worth the wait! We thought we knew him from the first two books in the saga, but this book brings it home! This story of Jagger and Quinn (I am not going to give out her nickname, because I am not one to spoil a story for other readers). Oh this story pulled at my heartstrings! It’s not quite as funny as the first two stories, but saying that, I found this one more meaningful! It shows the absolute range of writing Piper and Rayne have. Jagger and Quinn’s chemistry is off the charts and I love the slow burn aspect to the story. Their backstory is so painful but so needed to complete the story.
I also get a kick out of seeing glimpses of their past stories woven into this story. How do I get a pair of Quinn’s bootie shorts?!? I want a pair or three! Also the scene with the original crew from the Modern Love series! Superb!!
Finally, I love the set up at the end to their upcoming series, cannot wait to read more! Piper Rayne is a force to contend with in the writing world! Another fantastic, fast paced, swoony story! Bravo on another fantastic series!
***ARC Provided by the Author***
Jagger and Quinn have a history, one that makes her less than happy to see him in her home, after a rather convoluted beginning of the story that ends up with Jagger showing up in the place of the cleaning service Quinn hired.
I think, for me, the set up of the story made this a little harder for me to engage with. While I understand the backstory, it seemed off to me. I understand supporting your loved ones, and helping them out, but I am not sure I believed the sequence of events.
Quinn is sick, her defenses are down, and they have a reasonably friendly initial conversation. Sort of. Well, it is friendly in comparison to their last meeting, the one where she caught him cheating on her. And, it leaves Jagger determined he wants her back…and Quinn determined to avoid him and not let him hurt her again.
I am not sure I ever liked Jagger. There were moments I liked him, and moments where I thought he was a jerk. I think that was the point, and usually that works for me…but there was just something about him that I was never totally enamored with.
Quinn, on the other hand, I liked. A lot. She had heart and, I think, by the end I believed that she was actually happy to be with Jagger, and that let the book work well enough for me to be able to recommend it overall.
Jaggar and Quinn’s book was every bit what I imagined and more than I had hoped or. The writing team of Piper Rayne never ceases to amaze me with their ability to write a book so smoothly as if they were one person writing. We get a well told story, while at the same time we get to catch up with some of our favorite characters from other books. We make new friends and learn more about some characters mentioned in passing in other books. Having read all of the books written by this duo, I can’t wait for the next series ( set in the Winter Games in Korea) to hit my kindle.