Faking it never felt so real in this falling for his best friend’s little sister romance… Nothing’s more important than leading my team to victory every week. Except maybe escaping from the team owner’s recently-widowed and handsy-as-hell sister who’s dead set on winning more than a date with me at the charity auction. Enter Violet and a well-placed Hail Mary. She’s my best friend’s sister … Mary.
She’s my best friend’s sister with a smile as sweet as cherry pie and a mind that runs quicker than the 40-yard-dash. After Violet saves the day with the highest bid, I don’t even give her a two-minute warning before I kiss her in front of the whole crowd and then announce that she’s my girlfriend. Then my agent tells me we have to keep up the act while he’s negotiating my contract.
But what happens when faking it starts to feel all too real?
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This was a beautiful sweet story. I enjoyed this book
5 stars
I purchased a copy of Most Valuable Playboy by Lauren Blakely and this review is given freely.
Life long friends, unrequited love, and the clingy franchise owner’s sister place spa owner and hairstylist Violet in a fake relationship with Cooper at a critical time in both their careers. This is a well edited a steamy easy flowing second chance at love with the best friend’s sister romance which seamly combines romance,family,team life and football.
What is there not to love about Most Valuable Playboy. I find myself loving Lauren Blakely even more as this is the second book I have read by her and I truly loved every second spent reading this book.
I loved that this was not only a sports romance, but a best friends sister/ fake relationship story. All the tropes in this book were done so expertly that I was putty in Lauren Blakely’s hands by the first chapter. I fell so in love with Cooper and Violet. It was great seeing how close they were as friends and when they had to fake a relationship to get Cooper out of potential dangerous claws belonging to a very determined woman, you find out that they both have secretly harbored an attraction for the other. At some point, neither wants to fake it anymore. Cooper and Violet were so cute together.
I loved all the sports talk and getting to know Coopers teammates. It was also great getting Coopers background and seeing his relationship with his family, coaches, and manager. He has a great support system. It was also funny seeing all the superstitions the players had about their winning streak.
This was a really good book plenty of hot sweaty and friendship to love
Most Valuable Playboy is one hell of a sexy read that is sure to set your world on fire!! The moment Cooper wandered onto the page I was completely enamored with him, his sexy one liners, caring demeanor, and charming personality lured me in and had me swooning from start to finish!! Violet is one lucky girl!!! This is by far one of BEST first reads that I have had in a long while, it was freaking amazing!!! I am a sucker for stories that revolve around football players and I am happy to report this one checked off all my reading must haves and then some! I thoroughly enjoyed my time with these two, they left my heart happy and left me anxious for the opportunity to meet more of the Renegades players!! Highly recommend this one, Cooper is sure to steal your heart!!
I always love Lauren Blakely’s books and this is no exception! I loved Violet and Cooper together! Zachary Webber did a great job narrating! Enjoyable and spicy read!
I’m very picky about sports romances especially ones that contain football. With this being said Lauren Blakely knocked it out of the park with this book. I know that’s a baseball reference. But anyway I really loved how she grasped the football aspect of the story. Her storytelling shows she did her research and I was left very impressed with the sports part of the book.
Now on to Cooper and Violet, I think they are my new favorite couple. They are made for each other and I loved the dynamic of this couple. Cooper was sweet, loving, caring, cocky, and I loved the heart he had. Cooper was such a sweetie but he also has a dirty side and OMG! I had to fan myself at one point. Violet was such a good match for Cooper. She was smart, funny, sassy, independent and didn’t take any of his mess. There is just something about this couple I just can’t get enough of!
I’ve read many books by Blakely and as usual I’m left with a huge smile and happy heart when I’m finished. Her writing is real and refreshing. The drama is never over the top and all matters are handled in a realistic manner. Blakely has such a way with words and I’m sad this story is over! Well done and I can’t wait for Jones and Jillian’s story.
Most Valuable Playboy? How about MVBB? Most Valuable Blakely Boy. Sorry Colin, Chase, and Clay, but you’re going to have to step aside- there’s new player in town and his name is Cooper Armstrong. Gah, I even love his name! (And what’s with me loving all these “C” names in Ms. Blakely’s books?!?) (But don’t worry Brent, you’ll forever be my number one.)
Do you ever think you sound like a broken record when it comes to writing reviews? I do, when it comes to my reviews for Lauren Blakely. Maybe if she’d stop writing all these swoony and sweet, sexy and sassy, funny and flirty books that have me fawning and flailing over fictional characters I could mix things up a bit. But nooo, she continues to write these amazing books, leaving me no choice but to try and put together coherent thoughts that generally just leave me gushing and raving over them like a total fangirl.
Ok, enough of that, onto the review.
Cooper and Violet are childhood friends- that right there is a touchdown in my book. Add in the fact she’s his best friend’s little sister and we’ve got a 2 point conversion! 2 of my favorite tropes all rolled into one fun, sweet, and sexy as hell package, what more could a girl ask for?!?
Seriously, Cooper is everything a girl could want- he’s charming, adorable, a complete sweetheart! Throw in the fact that he loves his mom and isn’t not afraid to show it…major swoon.
Violet is so awesome in her own right. She’s someone you could see yourself being friends with- hanging out, have GNOs, drooling over hot football players. I love when an author makes the heroine just as cool as the hero and Violet is one pretty cool chick.
Together, Violet and Cooper have such fantastic chemistry! You could feel it from the first moment they shared the page. And things only got hotter as the book went on. But it’s not merely the chemistry that makes these two so good together. It’s the friendship they’ve shared over the years that just makes their relationship even more special, a friendship that made me fall in love with them. Even though their romantic “relationship” started out fake, there was nothing fake about how they truly felt about each other.
What a feel good story Most Valuable Playboy is. I think I had a silly smile on my face almost the entire time while reading. When it comes to romantic comedies with a whole lot of heart there really isn’t anyone out there better than Lauren Blakely.
Touchdown! Lauren Blakely is on top of her game with Most Valuable Playboy, which in my opinion is one of her best! This book is on an entirely different level and is now my favorite book of hers!!
Blakely can write a male POV like it’s nobody’s business and this was no exception! Cooper has that confidence, sweetness and is truly humble….yet very, very sexy! The sexy, starting quarterback is in need of some help and Violet, a salon owner and a long time friend, is just the person to save him.
Violet is the classic Blakely heroine. She is fun, sexy, smart, and knows what she wants. At the moment, Violet’s one goal is to help one of her best friends, Cooper, get out of a sticky situation. Little do Cooper and Violet know what is about to be scratching at the surface of this “fake” relationship…
I enjoyed how both Cooper and Violet interacted with each other along with the other characters we come to know if Most Valuable Playboy. The chemistry between Cooper and Violet is one of the best I’ve read. It is instantaneous as they have been friends forever. Their “fake” relationship, one to help Cooper’s career and Violet’s beauty salon, is one you would think you’ve read before. The fake relationship where Violet also happens to be Cooper’s best friends sister. But there is just something different about this story, something so sweet and endearing, I couldn’t put the book down until it was completely over.
At this point, I think everyone in the book world knows my love for Lauren Blakely. I adore her books tremendously, but Most Valuable Playboy was something different in my opinion. There is no doubt Blakely can write a romance like no-one else but this book, it tops them all!
3.75 stars– MOST VALUABLE PLAYBOY by Lauren Blakely is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, erotic romance story line focusing on quarterback Cooper Armstrong, and hair stylist Violet ‘Vi’ Pierson.
Told from first person point of view (Cooper Armstrong) with a few pages of text between Vi and her friends, MOST VALUABLE PLAYBOY follows several romance tropes including friends to lovers, best friend’s little sister, and fake girlfriend. At a recent auction for charity Cooper Armstrong pleads desperation when the team owner’s overly sexed sister makes a play for our leading hero. Hoping to save her brother’s best friend from a fate worse than death Violet Pierson offers up ten thousand dollars for a night with the man she has always loved. What ensues is the media frenzy and building relationship between our leading couple when Cooper reveals his life-long attraction for the girl who is pretending to be his current love.
MOST VALUABLE PLAYBOY is a story of romance, friendship and building love. There is very little conflict or outside interference to the couple’s relationship; any problem or fall out is quick to resolve including a potential threat from the owner’s sister. Saying that I felt the lack of controversy, hostility or discordant scenarios was surprising in the face of so many possible threats: a fake girlfriend , best friend’s little sister, and the probability of professional misconduct with the owner’s overly-aggressive sister.
The relationship between Vi and Cooper is a friends to lovers attraction; a life-long attraction that Vi knows could crash and burn if the truth were to be revealed The $ex scenes are intimate, seductive and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are introduced to several members of the Renegades including team owners, managers, PR staff, agents and players. Jones’ story line is next in MOST LIKELY TO SCORE.
MOST VALUABLE PLAYBOY is a simple and fun read; a happily ever after romantic story line of destined lovers. The premise is entertaining; the romance is provocative; the characters are colorful and dynamic.
Go Long!!
Awesome story of the cutie avoiding the clingy women at work while being secretly (even from himself) in love with his best friends little sister. What makes this story even better? There is camaraderie, there is football, there are charitable characters, and even the bad guys aren’t that bad. There is quite a bit of miscommunication, because when do we ever really say what we mean? I loved it and I can’t wait for the next one! And now a bit about the story…
Cooper has been riding the bench for three years and now he has his big catch to lead the team to victory. Violet is his best friend Trent’s little sister. She comes to his rescue – quite a bit actually – but as the two are forced together, Cooper realizes more and more how much Violet is no longer only Trent’s little sister! Now if only he can keep his pledge, no sex until the season is over!
Favorite passage: I tried Google Translate with womanspeak as the language, but it came out as gibberish.
Lauren Blakely is one of the hardest authors to review. She can deliver the goods, like nobodies business, but it’s hard to put into words your thoughts without giving too much away. Most Valuable Playboy is another diamond. Whether you love or hate Cooper, the delight comes from getting inside the mind of a semi reformed playboy. He’s cocky, famous and clueless when it comes to women. One in particular blows his mind and runs off with his heart. Violet is everything he desires, but never knew he wanted. Life is about to get interestingly complicated in this laugh out loud, irresistible courtship. Ms. Blakely is always a sure bet for an entertaining read.