🩵Play It Off (Kings of Campus 2) by Monica Murphy-review tour🩵

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 29, 2025

Sienna

I’ve had a thing for Gavin Maddox ever since I was a freshman, but it’s a mission doomed to fail. Of all the guys I could have picked on campus, I had to go too far with the quarterback, my brother’s best friend.

We’ve spent the last two years avoiding each other. It’s not that easy when you have the same friends, not to mention I can’t forget the way it felt to be with him. But I can be civil. Polite. Detached.

I think…

Gavin

Sienna Cooper is off limits—except for that one time. I can’t forget it, but I need to forget her if I want to keep my head in the game. This is my senior year and, more importantly, my last season of college football. I can’t let anything distract me.

I’ve respected Sienna’s boundaries for this long. I can do it for another year.

…Can’t I?

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REVIEW: PLAY IT OFF is the second instalment in Monica Murphy’s contemporary, new adult KINGS OF CAMPUS erotic, romance series. This is UC Santa Mira quarterback Gavin Maddox, and Sienna Cooper’s story line. PLAY IT OFF can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Some of the events of PLAY IT OFF run parallel to, and cross over with the events of book one END GAME.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Gavin and Sienna) PLAY IT OFF follows the building but forbidden romance and relationship between Gavin Maddox and Sienna Cooper. Approximately two years earlier, Sienna Cooper met and fell in love with her brother’s teammate Gavin Maddox but after their almost night together, Gavin and Sienna ghosted one another, ignoring the proverbial elephant in the room. Fast forward to present day, Sienna is determined to call out Gavin’s need to keep his distance but all does not go according to plan when our couple struggle to remain neutral in the face of their sexual attraction. Tired of Gavin’s constant push and pull of our story line heroine, Sienna reconsiders her attraction to Gavin but a disappointing visit with family sends Gavin into a spiral from which they may never come back.

The world building follows the ‘forbidden’ relationship but also the US Santa Mira’s football team’s race to the championship. We are up close and personal with the dysfunctional Maddox family dynamics, and Gavin’s downward spiral in the face of the constant belittling and heart break.

The relationship between Gavin and Sienna is a teammate’s sister/forbidden romance in which our couple keep their relationship on down-low. Gavin battles between head and heart fearing the fall-out of their relationship reveal, and in doing so, is constantly pushing Sienna out of his life. Sienna has loved Gavin since the first time they met but Gavin struggles to feel worthy of his own happily ever after. The $ex scenes are provocative and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of familiar, colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including the return of Nico and Everleigh (End Game 1), Frank Dollar, Sienna’s brother Coop, and their parents. We are introduced to Sienna’s roommate Destiny, and his school acquaintance Ryland.

PLAY IT OFF is a story of secrets and lies, family and friendships, relationships and love. The fast paced premise is captivating and engaging; the romance is seductive ; the characters are dynamic, determined and charismatic.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one END GAME

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Reviewed by Sandy

Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by Random House/Bantam and Harper Collins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.

She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.

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