Title: The Player’s ClubAuthor: Fallon Greer
Publication: August 4, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance
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Rating: 3.5/5★
It was supposed to be a simple assignment: stake out the golden boy hockey player Cole “Mac” Mackenzie as he exited the arena after a Los Angeles Blades game.
Follow him.
Get dirt on his personal life—something salacious to please the money-hungry gossip rag I worked for.
But I missed the moment Mac left the building. Or so I thought…
Twenty minutes later, I saw actual Mac exit after the media left. Apparently, he’d used a decoy to throw off the press—waiting until everyone left to make his getaway in private.
I started following the real Mac, and got more than I bargained for.
He led me to a mystery building tucked away in the middle of the suburbs.
Turned out, he was going to… a private club.
A club that wasn’t for the faint of heart—as I’d soon find out after sneaking in.
I wasn’t expecting to connect with Mac inside. Nor did I anticipate him to invite me back as his personal guest.
What started as a simple assignment turned into something much more—my biggest fantasy I never knew I had.
This wasn’t about the tabloid story anymore. I lied to my boss, told him there was nothing to see.
Meanwhile, I kept returning to the club.
I was addicted to unraveling the mysteries of Mac’s world.
Addicted to the man who lit a fire inside me.
But—with my own secret—it was only a matter of time before I got burned.
The Player’s Club is a steamy sports romance by debut author Fallon Greer. It features star hockey Player Cole Mackenzie a.k.a. Mac and reporter Elodie Andrews. Elodie works for a tabloid magazine and her latest assignment is to find some dirt on Mac. As she tails Mac, he unexpectedly leads her to a secret club that turns out to be a sex club named The Scarlet Rope. Intrigued, she manages to enter the club and what she finds there quickly turns from intrigue to fascination, especially when she meets Mac and founds out he’s a Dom. As they get to know each other sparks quickly fly and then some.
This was a good debit novel. Was it perfect? No. There were some flaws that I couldn’t look over but all in all it definitely wasn’t a bad story. I really liked the chemistry between Elodie and Mac. They were instantly attracted towards one another. It verged a little on insta-love, which isn’t exactly my favorite to read about but I didn’t mind it so much in this book. I also enjoyed the very sexy and scorching hot romance scenes, especially when Mac introduced Elodie to some BDSM kinks. They were very well-written, in my opinion. My favorite scenes were when they both took each other on little dates to show each other their favorite things. Those were so sweet and cute. Both characters also had their own deeper and sadder backstories, especially Mac. And I really appreciated how Elodie supported him but also wasn’t afraid to tell him that what happened to him wasn’t okay.
Now there were some things that I didn’t totally love. I’ll start with Fallon having a boyfriend for around 30% of the story. He wasn’t a bad boyfriend by any means, but he also wasn’t anything super special. She didn’t cheat on him and broke up with him before anything happened between her and Mac but it still didn’t sit quite right with me. She did see Mac at the sex club while still being in a relationship with her boyfriend. I just felt a little weird about this particular aspect of the story. My next issue was probably the biggest I have and that was the fact that Elodie lied to Mac about being a reporter and having been assigned to find dirt on him, which was how she ended up in The Scarlet Rope to begin with. She just tells him she’s a writer and nothing more. Of course when Mac eventually finds out he’s mad and feels like Elodie has broken his trust, especially when the news does leak eventually that Mac frequents a sex club. I just really didn’t like that Elodie kept lying to Mac for such a long time in the book. Also, the ending of the book felt a bit rushed and abrubt
I wish a little more time was spend inside The Scarlet Rope, as I feel it was meant to be a big part of the story but then it ended up not being that big, if that makes any sense? But I’ve got to say that the BDSM scenes we got were really good and so very hot. And not counting the lying and everything, I did really like the relationship between Elodie and Mac. They were sexy together, yet sweet and caring. The book had its ups and downs for me but the positive outweighed the negative for me and knowing that Brady’s (Mac’s friend and fellow hockey player) story is coming up next… I definitely want to read that one.
About the Author:
Fallon Greer is a twentysomething lover of romance novels, coffee, and bookish t-shirts, of which she has far too many. She lives in Miami with her Persian cat, Mortimer, who loves to sit on Fallon’s laptop when she’s trying to write.
Fallon first discovered her love of reading when she’d steal her mother’s Lisa Kleypas novels. That led her to start writing the types of books she loves to read.
When she’s not daydreaming through conversations with people and pretending to listen, she’s putting those daydreams to good use, writing novels as hot as the Florida sun.
This looks like a very enjoyable read. Thanks for sharing and hosting this tour.
This sounds pretty good, but I know what you mean about her having a boyfriend. That would probably bug me too!
Yeah it’s just a personal preference, I guess. But for a debut book it had a lot of great things too
Wow, I was not expecting that story from that cover!
I think the boyfriend and the lying would probably bug me too, but I’m glad to hear that the rest of the book still had a lot of great things too!