Beautiful Player

By Christina Lauren,

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When Hanna "Ziggy" Bergstrom moves to New York City for graduate school, Will Sumner thinks his responsibilities to his best friend's nerdy little sister will be limited to the occasional dinner and check-in. Little does he know that Ziggy is ready to break out of her bookworm academic shell and…

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Beautiful Player is my go-to steamy, fun reread. I love Will and Hanna’s quick-witted love story. I love that Hanna is a brilliant chemistry grad student. I love that part of the narrative is her opening up to her sensuality, not being afraid of it. And I love sexy Will and how hard he falls for his protégé!

Christina Lauren was my gateway into romance. While I have read all of their Beautiful Series, this one stands out as my favorite. Intelligent, driven main characters who go running together? Plenty of steam? A woman owning her value as a scientist…

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Will. What can I say about Will? He changed my views on tattoos forever? Spoiled me for any other book boyfriends? Even years after this book came out, he’s still one of my favorites. 

Hanna is a textbook geek and workaholic, spending all her time in the chemistry lab. Will, her brother’s best friend and childhood crush, takes on the task of getting her out of the lab and into the dating scene. As their friendship grows, flirty comments ignite a fire.

And what a fire it is! The first sex scene in a bedroom at a party is a…

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