Game Changer (Playing Games #1) by Rene Folsom
Synopsis:
Maci strives for one thing in life—anonymity. With her writing career in full bloom, all she wants is to work in peace while concealing her true identity from the public. Though readers love the science fiction worlds she creates, Maci knows that gender stereotypes could damage her career if she is exposed as a woman.
Liam is the envy of all gamers as the lead developer for nZone Studios. Over time, he builds walls around himself, keeping people at arm’s length who only gravitate to him for his material possessions rather than who he is as a person.
With thick barriers around their hearts and their past looming in the shadows, Liam and Maci challenge each other by slowly peeling away their protective layers and seeing each other for who they really are. It doesn’t take long after their chance meeting at a coffee shop for them to become one another’s game changer.
Note: This contemporary romance novel is the first book in the Playing Games series and contains adult situations meant for ages 18+. The prequel to this novel, The Wager, is an optional novella available at all major retailers and only meant to give a little extra back-story about the characters.
Review:
Game Changer by Author Rene Folsom is the first in her new contemporary gamer romance series, Playing Games. In it, she tells the story of Maci and Liam, two nerds looking for their other half.
Maci has lived as a covert famous science fiction author for quite some time, and fears sharing her secret lest she be treated with prejudice for being a woman in a predominantly male genre. Liam is the lead developer of nZone Games, a video game company, who wishes for someone to love him for who he is on the inside, not for what’s inside his bank account. When these two nerds meet sparks fly and they discover a chemistry they’ve both only felt once before: when they first met at a New Years Eve party long ago. Only they wore masks and never revealed their names back then, so now neither realize who they’re falling in love with until it’s too late.
It’s a rocky romance indeed, but Maci and Liam make it work. Happiness is just around the corner, if only they’d stop stumbling over their own feet to take it.
I’ve said time and time again that I love Rene Folsom and her works, but now I can honestly say I’m IN love with her and her works thanks to this book! A romance about gamers? Exactly what I needed!
The writing is, as always with this authoress, flawless and exhilarating. Although there is sex in this book, the story does not deviate to allow it. It fits in tastefully and flows well with linear progress of the two main characters’ relationship. These aren’t horny people getting their rocks off, these are two genuine people falling in love with one another. I could feel their emotions through the amazing writing talent of Miss Folsom, which is a rare thing for me when it comes to romance novels. She’s done the impossible over and over again: make me enjoy erotica/contemporary romance! And I don’t doubt she’ll continue to do it for a very long time!
I cannot wait for the next book in what’s sure to be an amazing series!
Five out of Five stars!
Check out Rene Folsom’s website here!
Check out my review for The Wager: A Game Changer Prequel here!