Review: Rebel Hard (Hard Play #2) by Nalini Singh

Book 2: the Hard Play series

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh continues her Hard Play series with a sweet, sexy romance featuring big, fat, OTT weddings, a meddling grandma, and a too-serious hero who needs to be unbuttoned…

Nayna Sharma agreed to an arranged marriage in the hope it would heal the fractures in her beloved family… only to realize too late that a traditional marriage is her personal nightmare. Panicked, she throws caution to the winds, puts on the tiniest dress she can find, and ends up in the arms of a tall, rough-edged hunk of a man who has abs of steel—and who she manages to mortally insult between one kiss and the next.

Abandoned as a child, then adopted into a loving family, Raj Sen believes in tradition, in continuity. Some might call him stiff and old-fashioned, but he knows what he wants—and it’s a life defined by rules… yet he can’t stop thinking about the infuriating and sexy woman who kissed him in the moonlight then disappeared. When his parents spring an introduction on him, the last woman he expects is her. Beautiful. Maddening. A rulebreaker in the making.

He’s all wrong for her. She’s all wrong for him. And love is about to make rebels of them both.

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What I thought about Rebel Hard

Nayna is in the process of interviewing prospected grooms for an arranged marriage when she decides to go out and get a little wild. At the party she meets a gorgeous man who sets everything about her on fire. He's exactly what she's looking for as a fling before she's put in the marriage cage. The heat level between them is enormous but things don't exactly work out quite the way Nayna wants them to.

Enter Raj. Raj is an amazing man. He's traditional, alpha as heck and he cares about Nayna enough to listen to her. He also has a sensitive side he only shows to Nayna. I really liked him. He too straddles between tradition and love.  His heart is delicate, and he has reason to guard it, yet he knows he wants Nayna and is willing to risk his heart for her. It doesn't get more swoony than that.  I really loved getting both perspectives in this story.

Nayna challenges the notion that she's only valuable as a wife and wants to develop her own self before she makes the decision to marry.  Some of it is caused by fear of being caught in a loveless relationship. She's seen people change and fall out of love. She wants to be something herself, before she commits to another and she needs a man who understands that.

Felt like I was transported to a world I knew nothing about, and yet everything seemed so familiar.  Aukland is not a setting I see often in my reading, nor is arranged marriage.  It was all so very interesting and I adored how tradition was explored in this story.  I loved everything thing about Rebel Hard.  There is so much more to this story than just a set of abs on the cover. I don't think the cover does this book justice.

My favorite character, besides Nayna and Raj is most definitely Nayna's wise and wonderful grandmother who manages to sum up life in one meaningful sentence... "Love grows when it's tended."  There are so many jewels in this story, and Aji is one of them. 

 Definitely on my favorites of 2018 list... 

An ARC was provided for review. 

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 Author Information

Nalini Singh is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling, Guild Hunter, and Rock Kiss series. She lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing.

If you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts and free short stories on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book in the Guild Hunter series. The Rock Kiss books are all stand alone and can be read in any order.

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