CE Ricci Audiobooks

Playing Dirty: a Leighton U campus romance with the gloves off

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

4 listener ratings

Who is CE Ricci?

Campus romance lives or dies on chemistry, and CE Ricci writes it accordingly. Playing Dirty belongs to the Leighton U series, a set of stories built around a university and the rivalries that flourish there, where antagonism is never quite what it claims to be.

The mode is contemporary, queer and unashamedly heated. Expect friction as foreplay, a supporting cast who see everything long before the leads do, and a plot that keeps putting obstacles in the way of two people who have already lost the argument privately.

It is genre fiction that knows exactly what its readers want and does not waste their time getting there, a skill more often praised than practised.

CE Ricci in audiobooks

Brandon Francis reads it across a shade under twelve hours, which gives the slow-build antagonism the space it needs to pay off rather than simply detonate.

Being part of the Leighton U run, it sits alongside other stories set in the same university; if you prefer to read in order, check the series numbering before you press play. Ratings so far come from only a handful of listeners, so this is early-adopter territory. Take a look at the audiobook below if you like your romance loud and your leads stubborn.