Power Play (Power Play #1) by Kennedy Mitchell-Review & Giveaway tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date: January 20, 2020

There’s no turning back. I can’t go home a failure–again. Everyone wants to use me, make me their pawn, but I have other plans. I will win this election or die trying.

Randi Sawyer
It started with a shady business proposal I should’ve turned down. Now here I am pretending to be someone I’m not, and bonus, I’m at the mercy of a man whose joy comes from my failures. The deeper I sink into DC’s seedy political scene the more I realize I can’t trust anyone if I’m going to make it out alive. Until him. Secret Service agent Trey Benson is bitter, jaded, and oh so hot with his mischievous smirk and cocky attitude. He hates me, just like everyone else, but he might just be who I need to survive this mess I’ve landed myself in.

Trey Benson
Forced onto her protection detail, I’m certain she’s just another Political Barbie in this city. I should know–I’ve dated most of them. Except she’s not. Funny, foulmouthed and crazy as hell, not to mention drop-dead gorgeous, Randi Sawyer just might be the one person who can make a difference in DC–and in me. Too bad the boss says she’s off-limits, that it’s too risky for her career and mine. Good thing I’ve never been great at sticking to orders.

Power Play is the first book in the five-book Power Play series. Each book cannot be read as a standalone. All five books follow one main couple’s relationship as it grows through a five-year time period.

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REVIEW: POWER PLAY is the first instalment in Kennedy Mitchell’s contemporary, adult POWER PLAY erotic, political romance series focusing on attorney / small town Mayor Randi Sawyer, and thirty-eight year old, Secret Service agent Trey Benson.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Trey and Randi) POWER PLAY sets the stage for the author’s five-part Power Play series. Randi Sawyer was born on the wrong side of the tracks to a mother whose addictions are destroying their lives. As a single mother of a teen-aged girl, Randi struggles to make ends meet until the day presidential hopeful, and the bane of Randi’s existence Kyle Birmingham makes Randi an offer she cannot refuse but an offer that comes with caveats. Seeing an opportunity, Randi makes a counter offer whereby our heroine will become the vice-presidential running mate to a man she disrespects and despises more than anyone could imagine. But..the counter-offer pushes aside another very powerful man, a man who is determined to destroy Randi’s life. With the run for office in full swing, Randi is assigned security, security that doesn’t want anything to do with our story line heroine. Enter former US soldier and Secret Service Agent Trey Benson, and the man with whom Randi will fall in love. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Randi and Trey, as Randi battles the odds and Kyle Birmingham, on the way to the Oval Office.

Trey Benson has loved and lost. As a member of one Washington’s political elite families, Kyle refuses to follow in the family footsteps thereby relegating himself as the black sheep and outsider. Having seen his share of stuck up, snotty Washington posers, Kyle immediately paints Randi Sawyer with the same brush he paints most of the wanna-bes in political life but no one knows the real Randi, and Kyle is about to get a lesson in judgement he will never forget. Randi Sawyer is desperate to make good on a promise to her daughter, a promise that now comes with the possibility of hiding the truth about family and relationships. Once Randi accepts Kyle Birmingham’s offer, she finds herself tied to a man who holds all of the power, power that could very well destroy our heroine’s life.

The relationship between Trey and Randi begins acrimoniously as Trey struggles with everything Randi represents. Believing our heroine to be a cold-hearted women with aspirations of grandeur, Trey struggles with his attraction to Randi, an attraction that will find our couple battling between head and heart as the campaign begins to take an ominous turn. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including Presidential hopeful Kyle Birmingham, and former running mate Shawn Whit; Randi’ daughter Taeler, and her father Ben; Randi’ mother; and Secret Service agents Tank and Gremlin.

POWER PLAY is a story of power and control; betrayal and vengeance; friendship, relationships and love. The character driven premise is intriguing, and fast paced; the characters are intelligent, wounded, powerful and animated; the romance is seductive and sensitive. POWER PLAY is story that makes your think about the what-ifs, and the current political situation playing out on the world stage. I will add that the use of a certain four-letter word, although not applied in the context of romance, is a bit of an issue for this particular reader.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Kennedy lives in Dallas with her husband, son, and 80lb Goldendoodle who still believes he’s a lap dog. A bookworm at heart, Kennedy loves to snuggle up in bed or by the campfire with an unputdownable book. She began writing two years ago with Falling for the Chance and has no plans of stopping. Her novels are witty, action-packed, and offer enough steam for a great facial. If you like strong heroines and sexy, tattooed men who can’t keep their hands off them, then this author is the one for you.

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