shreya's Reviews > Real Players Never Lose

4.5 Sweetums and Snookums Stars ⭐️

Idk why I didnt know about this book sooner. It was gate kept from the community !! I dare you not to fall head over heels for teddy.

"As I start to fall asleep, I realize that I would give anything, hand over every dollar promised to me, grovel on my knees, whatever was needed, to keep her."

𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 💭
Meet Teddy, the popular college playboy and lady's man with golden retriever vibes. (And hes on his way of becoming a reformed playboy) From the outside teddy has the perfect happy-go-lucky life. But a lesson this book definitely emphasizes is that money does not equal happiness and growing up in a house with 17 washrooms doesn’t mean you had a happy childhood, especially teddy when he had an abuser for a dad.

Meet Vanessa, a hardworking scholarship student and the complete opposite of teddy. No parties or boyfriends (by choice). She had her fair share of bad experiences including her ex boyfriend and bitch ass sister. Due to which she is very vary of people and isn’t used to being close with people. My fav part about her was that she was in no way a pushover and could stand her own ground and she was a very relatable character! She talked about her body and the fact that she has stretch marks and cellulite and its her empowerment thats makes me wanna read OH AND TEDDY LOVES HER CURVES MUAH HE IS THE SWOONIEST GUYS I HAVE EVER READ.

Teddy and Van team up to fake date so that teddy and keep his dad at bay and show him hes changed so he won’t lose his inheritance in exchange for helping van with her tuition. (Istg this man was whipped since the moment he approached her with this gig “ I have a gut feeling, I trust her”) but he doesnt stop there, teddy literally infiltrates her life with questions and SO MANY QUESTIONS AND ITS SO CUTE. And he remembers everything <3

✨TEDDY GREEN FLAGS ✨

✅stress bakes

✅drives to your hometown to beat up her ex for the way he treated her

✅wears a frilly apron 🥺 shirtless 😈

✅OPENS.THE.CAR.DOOR.FOR.HER.EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

✅[ goofy, jealous, protective, funny, smart, girl-obsessed ] - all of this in one person!?!?!


This book is long in terms of when they “get together” but thats that best part because they didnt fall in love with each other right off the bat. They talked and shared things about each other and through that they build their relationship.

Scratch that, the BEST PART

Was the DRY HUMPING/ PRETEND—TO-HAVE-SEX-SO-HIS-ROOMMATE-BELIEVES-THEY-ARE-REALLY-DATING SCENE WAS HOT AND HEAVY 🥵

tbh as a book this was definetly a 4-star for me but after a lot of contemplating i have decided that TEDDY IS THE STANDARD. if you're not him then do better