Book Recommendation ➱ Playtime’s Over (Neighbor from Hell Series) an Enemies to Lovers, Rom Com by R.L. Mathewson

Playtime's Over by R.L. Mathewson

📖Book Info

Six years is a long time to wait for revenge…

From New York Times Bestselling Author R.L. Mathewson comes the next novel in the Neighbor from Hell series, filled with revenge, questionable choices, and a Bradford determined to make the one woman that he couldn’t live without fall in love with him.

Once upon a time, Kristen Haven was his best friend, his entire world, and the one woman Garrett Bradford couldn’t stop thinking about, but that all changed six years ago when a simple misunderstanding ruined everything, and now…

Now, he was really hoping that she was willing to overlook the fact that he’d made her life a living hell for the past six years.

It was never going to happen.

Not after he’d told her to go to hell, and definitely not after he sent clowns to frolic in her front yard. Now that he knew the truth, Kristen was determined to forget about him and move on with her life, but there was just one problem with that plan…

She needed him.

Which meant that she had no choice but to give in to his demands, remind herself that she needed him whenever the urge to beat the hell out of him with whatever was within reach hit, and pretend that she wasn’t falling in love with the one man that she could never forgive.

A romantic comedy about second chances, revenge, questionable life choices, and one man determined to win back the only woman he’s ever loved…whether she likes it or not.

💭Our Thoughts

I just dropped into this series with Kristen and Garrett’s back-and-forth love-hate relationship.

And lawd can these two screw things up!

Once the best of friends, they are now serious enemies.

And all because….

We don't get that until later, much later in the storyline.

I really liked the characters I just had trouble with the repetitive feel of the story.

In the begining the back-and-forth banter between them, and the insane revenge plot by Garrett were funny.

How Kristen’s writer's block was lifted, and the lengths she would go to, were hilarious.

However, at about 50% of the story, it got too repetitive for me.

kept yelling can we just figure this out!!

Maybe give a little?

You both still love each other, obviously.

And yes, Garrett, we get that she is so adorable.

Do SOMETHING about it!

Also, I want to know what kept happening when Garrett took Kristen out.

They were kicked out of a mall, the national parks, etc.

We only get to see them being escorted out and some slight idea of the damage, but not what or how Kristen accomplished such insanity.

I am going to go back and try to finish this one because I liked the characters, and I want to know how this ends. I just need a break - if that makes sense

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