A review by maggiestraveledbookshelf
Play Along by Liz Tomforde

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

๐Ÿ“– Play Along
โœ๐Ÿผ Liz Tomforde
โ˜‘๏ธ Contemporary Romance
Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ซ | 4.5
Spice: ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ

โ€œ๐™…๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™  ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™—๐™ž๐™œ ๐™œ๐™–๐™ข๐™š.โ€ ๐™ƒ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™™๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™๐™š ๐™ก๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™š๐™–๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ, โ€œ๐˜พโ€™๐™ข๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™›๐™š. ๐™‹๐™ก๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ.โ€

Well, damn. I love this series SO much!!

Overview:
โ€ขSports Romance (baseball)
โ€ขBlack Cat/Golden Retriever 
โ€ขAccidentally Married
โ€ขHe Is OBSESSED With Her
โ€ขFound Family

๐—”๐—ณ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฉ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—œ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ต ๐—ฅ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€ (๐— ๐—Ÿ๐—• ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฝ) ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐˜† (๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ) ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ.

Iโ€™ll be honest, I donโ€™t always love books that involve drunken weddings, so I tempered my expectationsโ€ฆ but this book was SO GOOD!!! 

Isaiah Rhodes is the MVP of this book. I swear he is the most devoted, supportive, and intentionally loving man. I loved watching Kennedyโ€™s character arc, growing into a stronger and more confident person. 

And their chemistry? And their banter? And their relationship development? LOVE. 

โ€œ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™จโ€ฆโ€ ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™™๐™ž๐™จ๐™—๐™š๐™ก๐™ž๐™š๐™›. โ€œ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ชโ€™๐™ง๐™š ๐™œ๐™ค๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™– ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™š ๐™—๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ก, ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™  ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™„โ€™๐™ก๐™ก ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ช๐™ฅ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ž๐™ฉ.โ€

A special part of this book was watching Isaiah deal with his continual grief and residual trauma. There were some raw and emotional discussions, and Iโ€™ll forever love discourse about therapy in books. 

โ€œ๐™‚๐™ง๐™ž๐™š๐™› ๐™จ๐™š๐™š๐™ข๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™– ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ก๐™š๐™œ๐™š, ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™– ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ,โ€ ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ. โ€œ๐™๐™ค ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ข๐™–๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข. ๐™„โ€™๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™›๐™š๐™ก๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ.โ€

One of my favorite dynamics of this book is the brotherhood between Kai and Isaiah. I love how they continually verbalize and show their love and support for one another! 

โ€œ๐™๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ก๐™š ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™„ ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™œ๐™–๐™ข๐™š ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ง๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™š. ๐™„๐™ฉโ€™๐™จ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ ๐™š๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™จ, ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™›๐™–๐™ฃ๐™จ, ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™œ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฎ. ๐™„ ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™™ ๐™—๐™–๐™จ๐™š๐™—๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™—๐™š๐™˜๐™–๐™ช๐™จ๐™š ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ข๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง.โ€

This book exceeded my expectations and made me feel ALL of the emotions. Plus, the spice!! And all the cameos from the previous booksโ€™ couples!! I immediately want to reread this whole series.

โ€œ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š, ๐™ก๐™–๐™ช๐™œ๐™, ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ข๐™š?โ€
โ€œ๐™‚๐™ค๐™™, ๐™จ๐™ค ๐™›๐™ช๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™.โ€

Overall, I obviously loved this book and recommend it to all romance lovers!!! 

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