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Well Played by Jen DeLuca
4.0

I really enjoyed Well Met, so I was very excited to get back into the Ren Faire with Stacey in Well Played. As Emily's best friend, I loved seeing more of Emily and Simon and where they are headed. But I also really enjoyed reading from Stacey's POV.

Stacey feels like she has been going through the motions and stuck in her small town life. But she absolutely loves Faire. When Faire is over, she decides to take up a long distance email/texting relationship with her old Faire fling. Along the way, she finds out a lot about both her guy and herself.

This was a predictable, but still very fun rom com/romance. From the "twist" of the texts to the direction her life would take... there wasn't much that was a surprise. I would also describe it as a coming of age story. Although Stacey is already 27, due to things that have happened in her past, she was sort of forced down her path rather than finding herself and choosing her own. I loved Stacey in Well Met, so I'm glad she got to star in her own story and find her happiness.