RATING: 3.5✨
SPICE: 🌶🌶🌶
Spice/Kink Elements:
✔ Vanilla-type scene(s) (no roleplay elements)
✔ Confident, experienced FMC x nerd “virgin” tutor MMC roleplay
✔ Nerdy schoolgirl tutor FMC x footballer jock MMC roleplay
✔ Cheerleader FMC x pizza delivery man MMC roleplay
✔ Use of sex toys/sex shop shopping spree date
✔ Final girl FMC x Ghostface MMC Scream movie roleplay
✔ TAKEN FROM AUTHOR NOTES: breath play, light primal play, mask kink, praise and degradation, dirty talk, CNC in the context of role-play, and knife play
Trope/Setting Highlights:
✔ Little over ~240 pages
✔ Smutty college-set contemporary romance novella
✔ Student tutor FMC x hockey player MMC
✔ Low stakes/angst
✔ Sex roleplay scenarios
✔ HEA
Review:
Macy T. Riosa, you are so iconic for this.
Listen, let me start off this review saying this: if you’re looking for heavy prose or Shakespearean level writing, this novella won’t be that. There’s no over-the-top stakes, or an overarching motif, or Inception level plot twists.
However, this novella doesn’t claim to be that, or even want to be that, for that matter.
Playing the Part by Macy T. Riosa follows college student Dani, who on the side publishes erotica fiction to her blog with mild success. When readers claim her inexperience with sex is beginning to show in her work (and well, they’re not so wrong on the inexperienced part), Dani seeks to find a partner to test out her roleplay scenes after writing them, to ensure full accuracy, of course.
Enter Levi, the hockey player Dani has been tutoring for the past 2 years. While he isn’t her first choice for the arrangement (not due to lack of wanting), they end up finding their way to each other, and to some seriously sexy fun.
Dani and Levi were just two sweet people that found in each other a genuine friendship, with a gradual buildup of affection and trust. And in that trust, a safe space to explore their inner desires and ideas was formed. They are each other’s safe space.
And honestly, get you a MMC that:
✔ Consistently encourages your passions
✔ Is confident enough in his masculinity to try almost anything once and has enough emotional maturity to discuss personal boundaries
✔ Buys you all your favorite snacks when you’re sad/sick
✔ Sneaks into your class to take notes for you when you complain you feel sick
✔ Remembers all the little details
Overall, this was a great read that came at the perfect time for me, after nearly going into a post-5-star-but-heavy-read coma. This was sweet and spicy in all the best ways, and sometimes there’s truly nothing better than watching two good people fall in love and have hot, kinky sex.
I’ll end on this: I would’ve given this a full 5 stars just for the premise alone, but I just had to dock a bit off because we had the perfect set-up for that billionaire MMC x maid FMC roleplay with domination, spanking, and breeding (with no actual pregnancy) and it just… didn’t… happen. That’s like the greatest hits of kink (for me at least)!
Also the writing overall was a little weak.
@Macy T. Riosa I’m not saying bonus extended epilogue… but bonus extended epilogue.