Everything to Me (Playing for Keeps Book 2) by Lauren Fraser – Review by Tori Werkheiser

Everything to Me by Lauren Fraser
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This book sounded so promising. I love a good brother’s best friend forbidden romance. This story follows Kendall who stays at her brother’s best friend Pete’s house, who she has crushed on since she was 12, for a week while she’s in town for work. One of the reasons she agrees to stay with him when her brother recommends it is that she sees this as an opportunity to play out her fantasy and sleep with him that week to “get him out of her system” after years of silently loving him. This is where things went south for me. It was just a few pages in, and she was immediately propositioning him with sex and trying to convince him to sleep with her even though he was declining it. I did not like the way she kept pushing it and did not seem to take no for an answer. If the roles were reversed and the man was pushing the subject it would NOT be okay. There was no romance between them and there were no reasons for us to understand why she has loved him since she was 12 besides his good looks. Nothing he did was swoon-worthy and their relationship was so surface level. I enjoyed Kendall’s work-life storyline, her love of sports, and her relationship with her friends, but I was really missing a lot in the romance department. There was also a lot of miscommunication and misunderstandings. Neither of them was completely honest with the other, which caused all their issues. The back and forth with emotions and miscommunication was very confusing and disappointing for me. This had decent moments but was overall a miss for me. It lacked genuine romance and substance for me to cling to.

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