Beautiful Player (The Beautiful Series Book 5)

We’ve met the bastard.We’ve met the stranger.We’ve met the ladies that love them.But now it’s time.Time to meet Will, the Beautiful Player.These books just seem to get better and better, I thought I no one would ever beat the man that tore panties and hoarded them for his own perverted collection. But then came Max, a beautiful Brit with a fetish for f’n in public places and sexy photos. And now we have Will, the man that refuses to be tied down. The man that schedules his sex into his calendar. But that is all about to change when he reunites with Hanna, little sister to his college friend.We’ve had a book and a novella to get to know Will a bit, and I can’t even begin to express how much I wanted him to have his own book after Beautiful Stranger and getting some more of his personality in Beautiful Bombshell. I knew this man was going to fall fast & hard once he found the right girl. He just never expected it to be Ziggy, the girl he met when she was twelve and he was nineteen. But Ziggy was Jensen’s little sister. Hanna is the twenty-four year old woman, his Plum.“My heart and lady bits would not survive a night with this man. Good thing that’s not even an option, vagina. Stand Down!”When Hanna is forced to leave the labs and become a social butterfly she is thrust into Will’s life. When Will takes her under his wings he had no idea that the lessons she wanted to learn were going to be exploring her sexual desires. Hanna is not a blushing virgin, but she has little experience. Who better than to teach her how to be sexually open, date and just have fun than the man that has made it an art form? These two never expected that a few flirty comments were going to ignite such a fire. But Hanna can’t seem to think of Will as anything other than the man that has no desire for a monogamous relationship and for Will… Well he just can’t seem to stop thinking about Hanna.Will was completely everything that I needed him to be. Although he went from scheduled f-buddies to wanting to settle down, he was already starting to feel bored of his normal routines, so there was no whiplash over his change of heart. He was seductive and completely knew his way around a woman’s body. Will was not just a man that was interested in getting off, he was a man that loved women and loved pleasing them.“I think about having you spread over my face,” I said. “And taking you on the floor just inside my apartment because I can’t wait long enough to get us anywhere more comfortable. I don’t want to be with anyone else lately, and it means I spend an awful lot of time going for runs at random hours, or with my hand on my own dick wishing it was yours instead.”Hanna was a complete goof and was such a lovable character, even though she needed to get out of her own head most of the time. Her mix of desire and inexperience was the perfect storm for some pretty steamy scenes. Usually the foreplay scenes can be hot, but are just warming you up for the main event. But I have to say that the two hottest scenes in this book were never even made it to third base. Since Hanna was still learning, so much detail was placed into her experiencing every moment of what was going on. Describing it, learning how… it was off the charts hawt!“Will you come tonight?” He snickered, shaking his head as he looked down, stretching. It took me a beat to understand why he was laughing.“Ugh, pervert.” I groaned, shoving his shoulder. “You know what I mean. Will you come with me?” He looked up at the sound of me smacking my forehead.“Oh my God, that’s worse. Just text me if you’re interested in coming.” I winced, turning to walk down the trail towards my apartment building and basically wanting the trail to crack open and transport me to Narnia. “Forget it.”“I like it when you ask me to come!” he called after me. “I can’t wait to come tonight, Ziggy! Should I come around eight? Or do you want me to come around ten? Maybe I’ll come both times?”Christina Hobbs & Lauren Billings do a suburb job co-authoring another sizzling installment in the Beautiful series. These two write so well together that it flows so effortlessly, I could care less how they got their start in writing – I am just happy a pig in sh*t that they did. The humor that is contained in these pages is just as great as the naughty bits. Every single moment in this was absolutely delicious. Will was everything that I needed him to be and more. I know we are coming to an end soon of this series and these characters and I am going to be complete hot mess when that time comes. Each of these stories are filled with just the right combination of drama, sexual tension and chemistry, and Beautiful Player is a fantastic addition to the Beautiful Series. A complete must read for any fan of romance with a heavy dose of smut.

What an excellent story. This is the first time I've ever felt sorry for the player. Our beautiful player finally falls in love, and his past and life style keeps slapping him in the face. I felt so bad for the poor boy!The storyline was a great combination of a young girl’s crush and friends to lovers’ story. It was a predictable love story, but l was totally into this player and the naive and sometimes dumb girl.I loved this couple’s banter, and watching Will falling in love with Hanna was so sweet. I enjoyed this couple so much I wanted more…. Will obviously thought she was adorable, but more detail of his growing love for her, and why, would have made the story even better for me.They finally got together at about 46% into the book. It was so epic I found myself worried that something bad would have to be coming. I was not wrong. With Hanna being so dumb, and Will's past plenty happened. At one point my heart was racing. My mind was screaming, come on Will, tell her you love her!….I really did enjoy this story. It was funny, naughty, and made my old heart race.The best line in the story was perfect because of its timing. I laughed till I cryed…. “Don’t just stick the tip in, Johan,” Helena called out to him. “Shove it all the way in there.”I read along with the audible. WOW, Sebastian York's voice really brought Will to life for me.... Excellent Read

Love the whole series! All characters are great. The stories are funny, steamy, heartfelt and sweet.Will Sumner though…this guy takes the cake for sure. Love me some Will!! Hannah was also a great character. Their connection jumped through the pages.Christina Lauren did GREAT with this series. One of my all time faves!

I’m obsessed with this series, I’m obsessed with these characters and while this isn’t my favorite in the series (that will always belong to Max and Sara) this is still a great addition and one I will reread with pleasure.Here’s what I liked:- Our main character is a woman in STEM - which I love- I enjoyed the discussion about essentially “man whores” and women’s reactions to their rather lurid pasts. It was a twist on the more realistic perception of women in real-life who have multiple partners and are considered “easy” but rather in this case, because of Will’s past, Hanna is skeptical of a relationship with Will.- The friend-to-lovers trope was real and the scenes between these two characters was hot hot hot.- There was great discussion about a woman who, while she has had several partners, hasn’t had good partners and is still exploring her sexuality. I thought this was interesting and also well done.- Every character Christina Lauren writes is different; they have different personalities, different physicalities, and different situations to explore. I really enjoyed that about each of the novels in the Beautiful series. Oftentimes characters seem to have the same personalities and characteristics. Will and Hanna were different and separate from their friends, but equally likeable.Here’s what I didn’t like- While I really enjoyed this novel and fully recognize it was great, it also just wasn’t my personal favorite. - I did get kind of bored about halfway through.- The discussion about how much of a man-whore Will is/was does tend to get repeated quite a lot, almost too much, by multiple people.Overall though, the parts I didn’t like are nit-picky at best. I can’t wait to reread these stories again.

I loved this story! Hanna and Will were so easy to fall for. Their authenticity and honesty paved the way for such a beautiful intimacy. Honestly, as cheesy as this sounds, I found this book to be inspiring. This level of honesty has isn’t easy, but with the right person it can be so worth it!

This is Book 3 in the Beautiful series and I would say, unusually, that each book was better than the previous one. I loved Will and Hanna’s story, even though she got mildly irritating at one point where she kept running off like a headless chicken without getting to the bottom of the situation first... but I suppose if she hadn’t it sounds have cut another 2 chapters from the book(!). Anyway a great read and highly recommended. On a ‘last but not least’ note I also want to mention that I LOVED George’s banter. (George being Sara’s cheeky and comical assistant.)

This is a light sexy easy read, in 2 POV.Will is a player. A certain day of the week, a certain girl. However he is very honest about this and everyone knows where they stand. Until Hanna and his player ways become reformed.Hanna is the inexperienced workaholic who’s family has to convince her that she needs to have more fun. And who do they suggest? Well Will of course. Will is Hanna’s brothers best friend and lives close buy to help get Hanna get out and about. Hanna and Will have great banter. This is a friends to lovers story, prob my fave couple of the series to far. Also get to see Bennett, Chloe, Max and Sara. Can be read as a stand-alone but I always suggest to read the whole series first.

I think this is possibly my favourite book in the Beautiful series so far. This is book number three which I moved onto straight after finishing Beautiful Stranger, book two.This story is all about Hanna Bergstrom who is a bit of a self-made recluse, buried in her lab work and after her brother’s attempts to bring her into what he deems as civilisation a bit more he encourages her to look up his old friend Will Sumner. Will is a character we already know a little bit about from Beautiful Stranger as he works with Max. I didn’t really have that much of a perception of Will as I was more focused on Max throughout that story but I really started to fall head over heels in love with Will in this story.Hanna and Will are old acquaintances through Hannah’s brother Jensen and when they reconnect years later when we see them in this book they have an almost instant connection on a platonic level although both now see something else in the other that is the entire other end of the scale from platonic.Their chemistry is palpable and while Hanna is direct and frank and can sometimes come off as naive Will finds it endearing and is seemingly hooked on her personality. I loved that Hanna didn’t have a filter and wasn’t easily embarrassed. That fact makes the whole storyline more realistic between the two characters.I loved that Will was so shamelessly attracted, and more so throughout the book, to Hanna and I loved how he felt protective of her too. I didn’t feel like their age gap was an issue at all and I loved that Will was experienced in the way Hanna needed him to be. The story is dual POV again which I actually cannot get enough of and I loved how both of them saw their relationship toward each other.I think Will is my favourite of the three characters and I was definitely most attracted to him – he was Ryan Reynolds in my head.There is something about a storyline like this that really appeals to me and if you’ve enjoyed it or like the sound of it you should also give Some Girls Do by Clodagh Murphy and Before Jamaica Lane by Samantha Young a look.

I really enjoyed this, the third book of the Beautiful series.Hanna (aka Ziggy) is Will's friend's little sister. Unknown to Will, Hanna has crushed on him for years. When Hanna's brother Jensen contacts Will and asks him to get his sister out of herself and her all-consuming job in a lab, he does so without hesitation - Hanna's a sweet girl, and he's known her for years!When they arrange to meet for an early morning run, Will realises just how much Hanna's grown into a woman, and Hanna realises that Will is still hot. But Will's a player, and has a few regular girls on rotation every week, which is an immediate red flag to Hanna. While not an innocent virgin, Hanna is unused to dating, so enlists the help of Will to coach her. But Will starts to care too much, much to an oblivious Hanna.*******************Will was a great character. He was sexy, likable and thoughtful, and although he had a player status, he was loyal and faithful while with Hanna. I wasn't expecting Will to be the way he was, and it was so refreshing to see a man lose his s*** over a woman!Hanna was sweet and funny (some of the stuff she came out with was hilarious, what with her lack of brain-to-mouth filter!). But for someone so clearly intelligent, by God was she naive and oblivious to the world of dating, yet with the filthiest mouth!I loved the secondary characters of Hanna's family and Max/Bennett/Chloe/Sara. It's nice when the main parties have no parental issues/angst/mental health issues, and you can focus on the matter at hand. Their interest is running together, and when, despite everything, Will helps Hanna run the half marathon, it made my heart swell. The texting was also very cute - sometimes funny, sometimes intimate. The chemistry between them was amazing, and the sex was beyond hot! Yum! The book was also very well written, flowed well, and I loved the dual POV's.The reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 was because:1. I felt it dipped a bit around two thirds in, but luckily picked up again.2. One thing that really annoys me in books (and movies) is miscommunication. I find it very frustrating, and it can be remedied easily by - oh, I dunno - talking!3. Hanna's to-ing and fro-ing was exhausting, and I found her quite immature at times. It was very obvious to everyone EXCEPT Hanna that Will was crazy about her. I find that women are more astute than men, so I found this hard to believe.Otherwise, a really good read, but Beautiful Bastard is still my favourite!

I thought Beautiful Player was better than beautiful bastard (book 1). Although I liked Bennett and Chloe, I loved the key characters Will and Ziggy (Hanna). I got more involved in their story and found it so endearing. Maybe this was because Will and Ziggy already had an connection with each other through Ziggy's brother in their high school years. Will came across as being more thoughtful and considerate towards Ziggy in contrast to Bennett and Chloe's story. Overall it was well written with equal amounts of romance without compromising the sexual chemistry and the steamy scenes.It made a refreshing change to have a strong alpha male lead and a gregarious female lead who have not been negatively affected by past events in their lives. Could be read as a stand alone book as well as part of a series.