Rachel (LoverofTBR)'s Reviews > Ex Games

Rating
4.25 ‘Mrs. Leo’ 🌟

Song Recommendation
Sab Tera – video includes the English translation!

Review
This is my favorite Stella Rhys book so far! It was full of feels and Mason Leo has captured my heart with his possessive alpha ways.

Taylor Simms gets the shock of her life when her boyfriend of three years, Aaron Leo, up and leaves one morning without any warning. This is hard hitting for her because they were planning a wedding together and he has left her a financial and emotional mess to sort through in his wake. To make matters worse, he is planning to marry another girl just few weeks after walking out on Taylor. The cherry on top of this pile of BS is that the girl is Eva, Aaron’s brother’s ex.

“Don’t.”
He was already laughing. “What?”
“Crack all the predictable jokes. I know you’re dying to, but let me do it for you. Yes, I work as a Faddy’s girl. Yes, I’m wearing a padded bra under a child-sized Eagles jersey and yes, my pants are ridiculously tight.”
“No judgment here. My own are getting tighter as we speak.”

Mason Leo wasn’t passionately involved with Eva, but he was still angry when she decided to marry his brother, Aaron, after he walked out on Taylor. Though not on civil terms, Taylor agrees to Mason’s plan of fake dating to convince his brother to back out from the wedding. Taylor knows that she can’t get involved with anyone after the blunder of her relationship with Aaron, especially not the other Leo brother, and she figures this would be easy considering that Mason is a jerk playboy who doesn’t do commitments. But what fun would it be if their best plans didn’t fail?

Mason laughed. “I thought we were well past this game by now.”
“What game?” I blushed.
“The one where you act like I’m faking my physical attraction to you…

I loved Mason! He was sweet and thoughtful under his jerk playboy layer and I specially loved his possessive and dirty-talking alpha side too. Taylor and Mason together were full of combustible chemistry and you just can’t help but root for the moment when they overcome all their past and decide to act on their desires. Theirs was an amazing journey from low heat banter to stolen glances full of sexy chemistry to careful yet desperate touches to full blown passionate intimate scenes! Taylor was amazingly compatible with Mason because she was brave and wasn’t afraid to hold her own against Mason. I enjoyed the angst between them, but also appreciated how they decided to avoid OTT drama by being honest with each other about their feelings.

There was the breaking point.
My mouth fell open as I watched him come, his patience visibly fading with every step he took toward me. I scrambled to my knees on the couch, every inch of my body lit on fire as I anticipated him – his touch, his skin, all that pent up lust and fury he’d been saving for up for me.

Overall, an amazing romance from the queen of light and swoony romances, Stella Rhys! The banter was great, the chemistry was palpable, and the romance was swoony. I would highly recommend her books to anyone who enjoys a swoony romance with realistic characters, medium to low angst, and no OTT drama!

I hadn’t been certain of anything in a long time, but securely wrapped in Mason’s arms, the air dancing with all the words we didn’t have to say, I was certain. I had lost control and fallen hard, but it didn’t matter.
Because he had done just the same.