I've read and reviewed each of the four books collected here separately, so this is really just for my own records. The rating is an average of the individual ratings: the first book, Playing for Keeps, scraped two stars from me, and the rest didn't earn more than one. So why are you reading them Octavia? you ask, and it's a valid question. I'm making a deliberate attempt to read more romance, and I basically lucky-dip books by picking random lists and working my way through the books on them. Well, a lot of people love this series, because one of those damn lists had five of these books on, I think, and I've made my way through the first four, trying to see what others see in them, and I've given it a good shot but I'm not getting it. Looking at the reviews, lots of people see this series as hot and funny, with likeable characters, and I'm glad they've found something they liked, but my reaction is the opposite. Unpleasant people being horrible to each other and it turning into romance does not do it for me, and with the constant focus on stuffing themselves and stealing food, my image of the Bradford men is pretty much giant walking tapeworms. It's not attractive.