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Playing with Fire

By: L.J. Shen
Narrated by: Desireé Ketchum, Christian Fox
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A broken boy on the path to destruction. A scarred girl without direction. A love story carved in secrets, inked with pain, and sealed with a lie.

Grace Shaw and West St. Claire are arctic opposites. She is the strange girl from the food truck. He is the mysterious underground fighter who stormed into her sleepy Texan college town on his motorcycle one day and has been wreaking havoc since. She is invisible to the world. He is the town’s beloved bad boy. She is a reject. He is trouble.

When West thrusts himself into Grace’s quiet life, she scrambles to figure out if he is her happily-ever-after or tragic ending. But the harder she pushes him away, the more he pulls her out of her shell.

Grace doesn’t know much about anything beyond her town’s limits, but she does know this: She is falling in love with the hottest guy in Sheridan U. And when you play with fire - you ought to get burned.

©2020 L.J. Shen (P)2020 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Tear-jerking
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what a beautiful story... the chemistry between the two, Gracie-Mae (Grace Shaw) and West St. Claire is absolutely amazing, the back n forward bites, their feelings for each others... n West's love, affection possessive towards Grace is like no other. Truely book boyfriend worthy... a totally must read. I fell in love with their love.

“Don’t break my heart so soon after putting it back together.”

“A king doesn’t bow to others.”

“He does for his queen.”

only wished there was a bonus epilogue mayb their wedding or honeymoon...

Grace Shaw & West St Claire

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This was amazing! There were definitely points in this book where I wondered if Grace was going to make me annoyed at her by bending to West at points (read it and you will know exactly what I'm talking about), but luckily L.J. Shen didn't disappoint and made me almost fist bump everytime Grace remained strong and chose what was best for her! I totally cried in this book which was quite embarrassing as I was in a bus full of people when it happened (luckily I don't think anyone noticed, so dodged a bullet there 🤣). This book will totally take you on an emotional ride, but in the end you can definitely feel your heart melting with happiness! I would totally recommend this book! If you read the blurb and think you might like it then read it! I would highly recommend you listening to the audiobook with its amazing narration on both sides! Definitely an audiobook I do not regret buying! I hope you find you love it just as much as I do! Enjoy!
Overall: 5/5
Spice: 4.5/5

FANTASTIC!

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Great story check your triggers. Narrators Christian Fox and Desiree Ketchum. Grace and West have more in common than they thought.

Enemies to Lovers

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trigger warning with this book just wanted to warn those who may be triggered by suicide themes

Possible trigger warning with this book

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This audiobook is a dual read between the MC’s and juggles the dialogue from male to female so well. The female narrator does such an excellent job of the Texan accent that it is endearing and the story? Prepare for all the angst.

Tex and Maine

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This book is emotional, and sweet and all the things a good romance book should be. I really enjoyed it!

Playing with Fire

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Thoroughly enjoyed!!! The story was great and The characters felt so real - loved them all. It was an emotional ride for me with laughs and tears. L.J. Shen is awesome! - (just Loved West )

Had me hooked

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Fantastic narrators.
Great listen, story moved along did not want to stop so I didn't. Recommend

Enjoyable

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Wow what a ride! I really enjoyed this story it was absolutely captivating. It touches on some very serious & real topics. There’s a lot of grief, pain, remorse, guilt & mental health issues. Although the story hits you deep in the feels, I found myself giggling aloud as well. It truely hits on all emotions.

The story is written in dual POV which is great because otherwise West would look like a real dick. But because we get insight into West’s inner monologue as well we see the reason behind his actions & how he feels about it.

You can’t help but feel deeply for both the main characters straight away. They both have traumatic pasts & a lot of baggage. I really enjoyed listening to the characters develop & overcome their pasts while they become each others everything. It was beautiful!

West is definitely a swoon worthy book boyfriend! He’s a bad ass but he’s also the most thoughtful sweet heart when it come to Grace & even Grams! In particular I loved the interactions between West & Grams. How he looked after both of them was everything!!

The narrators were great and really fit the characters! Christian Fox has definitely become one of my favourites recently.

LJ Shen is amazing and I have been enjoying a lot of her books lately. She’s also quickly becoming a favourite of mine!

To finish off I want to quote my favourite part from the book.

Grace - “A king doesn’t bow for other’s”
West - “They do for their Queen” 😍

Seriously West killed me!!!

Beautiful book ❤️

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Absolutely loved this book! Listened to it in one day. I couldn’t stop myself! Highly recommend

Couldn’t stop listening 😍

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