10 years back Alex and Nicole were in love with each other, but didn’t get their HEA and Alex blames Nicole and her dad for it, and plans his revenge, taking over her dads hotels.
Present day, Nicole is incharge of the Westmore Hotels after her fathers death, and plans to confront Alex and appeal to his sense of fairness.
Their chemistry is still off the charts, and Alex’s attempt to have a one night stand with Nicole to work her out of his system backfires badly.
I feel this book had the potential to be a superb read, but fell short. For instance I didn’t get Alex’s reasons for being as angry at Nicole as he was. The chemistry is super hot and their romance was good but I would have liked a little more depth to their relationship. The series look promising and I hope Ryan and Grants are 5 star reads.

This is more like a second chance romance than an enemies to lovers romance. Only one character really has anger and that is Adam. Nicole mainly feels hurt. This was just an okay story for me. I have no problem with sex being in the stories I read, but this was just way too much and way too soon. I get that this is a shorter story, but the two main characters haven't seen each other in ten years and the first time they do that have sex? And in the second chapter? It just wasn't believable for me. I want some more substance in my characters and storyline first.

Adam and Nicole fell in love when he was working as a chauffeur for her father. Nicole's father never liked Adam and he drove the couple apart. Now, years later, Nicole's father is dead and Adam has a revenge plan to remove Nicole from the head of her father's company and take it over. But, as usual, things don't go according to his plans.

Thank you to Entangled Publishing for an arc in exchange for my honest review.

This second chance romance was okay, but not great. There was a lack of dimension in both characters and the plot, while interesting, seemed a bit too bogged down. Adam and Nicole, our main characters, could have used a bit more substance and maybe a little less time spent in the bedroom.
Yup, there’s a lot of sex in this book, while isn’t a problem in general. But I wish they’d gotten to know each other a little better after 10 years apart...and that they had more to their relationship other than physical compatibility.
And while I’d usually be excited to read the subsequent books that will be about Adam’s two friends in the Player’s Club, Gaines didn’t give me enough positive info about either of them to make me even a bit interested. They seem as jaded and one dimensional as Adam was for most of this book. I gave it 3 stars, which now seems high after reading my own review.

Adam wants revenge but can he follow through with it?

Nicole Westmore had fallen in love with Adam Morrow ten years before when he worked for her father for the summer while he was getting his MBA but when her father found out they had fallen in love, he was fired immediately. Adam decided to best her father at his own game and started up his own high end hotel company with a secret investor. His final planned revenge was taking over Westmore Hotels even though her father had died and she now ran the company. Nicole decided to try and change his mind about the takeover because she had already had plans with the company on a new property.

Nicole and Adam had fallen in love ten years ago and when they find out the sparks are still there when Nicole tracks Adam down at a wedding of a mutual friend but Adam’s want for revenge almost ruins everything.

Reunited lovers when there is some hate on one side cause a lot of sparks in the romance.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The story of Nicole and Adam. She was his first love and now he wants to destroy her company. But she is on to him and ends up kidnapping him and taking him to her new island resort in an attempt to convince him to leet her company be.
They are soon falling for each other, but he is still keeping secrets, so what will happen when they go back to the real world?

An entertaining read. Looking forward to the rest of this series.

While this is a fun, quick read, it just didn’t meet the mark for me. I was excited when it seemed like an enemies to lovers romance, but this is more like a second chance. And for two people who “hate” each other to be falling into bed together by the second chapter just wasn’t what I was hoping for. There was really no character or relationship building, just lots of sexy times. I just needed more and didn’t get it from this story.

The Revenge Game (The Player’s Pact) by Alice Gaines is an entertaining enemy to lovers/second-chance romance. Adam and Nicole fell in love but were ruthlessly driven apart by Nicole’s father. Adam believed that Nicole would wait for him but to his surprise learns about her upcoming marriage and he quickly turns bitter and wants revenge. Ten years later, after striving & succeeding in the hotel resort business, Adam is a hotel magnet with the sole goal in life of sinking Nicole’s father business. After her father dies, Adam is out for revenge against Nicole herself. When he sees her for the first time in years, he realizes he still has feelings for her. However, his plan has already been set in motion. Can they have a second chance? Or has anger and revenge ruined any chance of a relationship between them?

This story has a lot of sex, like a lot. I wish there was a little more depth & character building before they resumed their relationship. After ten years apart, I had hoped they would get to know each other again and work out all their issues (including Adam stopping all his revenge plans) but things turned physical as soon as they saw each other again. It was just a bit too quick for me to believe. And then we are left with Adam stuck in some kind a revenge-limbo state where he isn’t sure what to do or how to extract himself from his plans.

The series has promise and I would read the next books in the series since I’ve already been introduced to the characters. I’m hoping we get me insight and relationship re-building in the next books and that is the only flaw I felt the story had because I did enjoy the premise of the book and I enjoyed the passion/steam it had. I received an ARC in exchange from Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was okay. Not my favorite. I think I found it really predictable, and maybe I was holding out for a twist.

This is a second chance story. We meet Alex who he and his friends have been supposedly burned by woman before and now is living the no string attached life, you know another manho because it seems that is the only thing that authors seem to think of.. Anyhoo he finally gets to his chance to get revenge on his ex Cami and her father and to get to destroy there hotel empire, except that Cami's father has died leaving all the to Cami so it would be Cami who he would destroy. when they see each other the feeling are all there and they seduce each other, I mean these two jump in the bed immediately, I mean immediately I didn't, get how you supposedly hated someone so much yet you wasted absolutely no time in hashing out your issues, but nevertheless I guess we wouldn't have a story. The background issues or the miscommunication was ridiculous or more Cami's side was I understood Alex being upset I would have been too, she really didn't have a leg to stand on. So we have miscommunication, lies, betrayals and eventually an HEA and I am assuming we will having two more stories coming from Grant and Ryan.

He is a man scorned in his eyes. Adam fell in love with Nicole one summer and when her father drove him away thereby breaking them up, he was devastated. He thought that she would wait for him but learning of her upcoming marriage, left Adam with a bitter taste in his mouth thus driving his hatred and anger towards the path of revenge. As he becomes the tycoon building hotel resorts, he drives Nicole's father business into the ground. Now the old man is gone and Nicole is at the helm of her father's sinking business. When he sees her again the feelings are still there for both of them but is it enough for them to have a second chance for what could have been? I voluntarily agreed to receive an ARC of this book for an honest review.

This is my first book by Alice Gaines.

What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Dual POVs
Part of a series: The Player's Pact
Standalone
HEA
Epilogue

I look forward to reading the next book in this series.

The Revenge Game has Adam Morrow determined to have his revenge against rival hotel group Westmore. Having being a poor boy working on the Westmore family estate he fell in love with the Westmore daughter Nicola. She promised to wait for him when he left for college but on learning she was to marry someone else his future was set, he becomes a self made millionaire and hotel owner determined to grind the opposition it to the ground after how he was treated.
Meeting up with Nicola after 10years he is determined to ignore her and carry on with his plans but she has other ideas and after kidnapping him their passion returns.
A readable enough romance lots of sex but little depth and plot, really Adams chip on his shoulder took some budging and he wasn’t exactly innocent in how events turned out. The ending tied everything up nicely but light on any drama.

The Revenge Game by Alice Gaines a four-star read that will turn you around. This had all the makings of a five-star read but just missed the boat a tiny bit at the steamy bits and as there were plenty this is why I have it four-stars. I liked Nicole Westmore, she was a driven young woman that would surprise you with her depth, and Adam Morrow was a driven man, he was wronged and is doing everything in his power to get it right again. That part I liked, and the boat was fun, its nice to see it the other way around, Nicole surprised me in more ways that I can explain. I will look out for more from this author as overall it was a great story.

This is an entertaining and sexy romance that I enjoyed reading. Nicole is the "poor little rich girl" in danger of losing everything, while Adam is the boy from her past. Both were traumatized by their breakup, however, Adam was so hurt by it that he dedicated his career to destroying Nicole's company.

The characters are a bit predictable and I wish they'd had more depth. Instead of adding depth, there is lots of very hot sex.

This is the first novel I've read by this author and I love the premise she's based this series on. So, while I'd give this book a solid three stars, I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.