The Plus-One Agreement by Charlotte Phillips

Reviewed by Desere

All woman will tell you that attending an event of any kind alone is always embarrassing. You feel every one staring at you, and in the end for most of the time you don't even attend at all if you cannot find that vital piece of arm-candy.

For Emma this is so not the case, she has an arrangement with the very hotter than hot Dan. He's her hero whenever she needs him to be, perfect ! But lusting after him in secret was never part of the plan yet she goes with the flow and just let's it be.

Dan has always been cool with the arrangement, it's all for fun, but then suddenly Emma calls off the arrangement and he feels just a little more than annoyed.

So when she begs him for one last time to be her knight in shining armor or rather the drowned moron that needs to slick off without the girl,  he decides he has to grab the chance to prove to Emma he is worth keeping around.

I loved, loved, loved this book! It was heartfelt, emotional and so awesome. The characters had fire and passion that made the read so intense it completely blew me away. The character of Dan was yes a bit of an ass, but with good reason. He can see Emma is hiding in the shadows but cannot get her to crawl out from it, and this of course drives him mad.

It reminded me that in real life we all do the very same, we think we are out in the open for all the world to see and when we see someone not taking the chance to act on something we want to tell them how to do it. But we don't stop to think that the person has a very good reason for what they are doing. This makes us mad but also completely blind and let's us look past our own failures in life.

The character of Emma was super fun to read ! I enjoyed her nutty family and her always acting as best she can to "hide " them and their antics. I loved how the author used Dan to bring out the real Emma from the shadows and let's her blossom into this stunning real woman.

I am taking away a message of when we find a person who challenges us to be the real person you know you can be, don't push them away. It will be a long and hard road to happiness but it will be worth it.

I recommend this read for all fans of the HK line. The read was fun, romantic and so very sexy!

5/5 star review
" An ordinary agreement suddenly becomes very complicated" 

Your room or mine ? by Charlotte Phillips

Reviewed by Desere


A slime ball ex, lots and lots of wine and a emergency pep talk from the girls leads to blazing hot passion and a series of delightful events that had me laughing out load !

This is a new author to me and I was not expecting anything much as I will be honest, I had not heard fantastic things about this book! But WOW I was so amazed and entertained that I could not put this read down and read it in one sitting.

The author very cleverly incorporated the direction of a cheating ex pushing a girl into doing something she never thought she would.

A very short read, but fun and sexy, with words that flowed effortlessly. I highly recommend this read for anyone looking for something fun and fresh, the perfect Saturday afternoon read!

Well done Charlotte,keep them coming
4.5 star review

"Getting your heart broken give you courage to take a chance" 

All Bets Are On by Charlotte Philips

Reviewed by Desere


Every office has a ice queen and every office has a player. The ice queen is the one that is always focused on her work and everything is always in place, no file untouched. And the player is the one that every female in the office has had in bed, been there done him and gotten the dumped t-shirt to prove it.

So when office ice queen Alice finds half a list of men involved in placing a bet on who gets her into bed, she is furious and goes into a crying fit. Gets over it and moves on, but when the biggest of office players Harry asks her out saying he can help her go from ice queen to loose and fancy free, she reckons why not it could be good but immediately she draws up a little list of her own. She will show that this player is just that and if he is in on the bet she will be the one to walk away with a win!

The characters of Harry and Alice were both well written and each had their own unique reason for being the way they are. Harry 's enjoying the love them and leave them attitude stems from his childhood, no attachment just fun and his heart will remain guarded. For Alice it stems from a relationship involving social media that had given her ex the advantage and her the shame.

I liked that the author lets both characters past mesh into their relationship, it made for some very interesting moments of clarity. I loved that Harry does not know about her list and she does not know for sure if he is involved in the bet. It was kind of like I was reading a the rules of men vs the rules of woman book, only this one involved a lot more emotion and left a punch at the end that one would certainly not get from any rule book. And it also gave me as reader laughable moments of he knows but she doesn't and the other way around.

The backdrop settings were great, the author captured the loose and fancy free attitude of Harry when taking me as reader to his home. She also showed the perfectly boring down to the last t crossed and i dotted life of Alice when in the boardroom.

The dialogue was mostly fun, sexy and kept light but does at some stage get emotional and serious. Over all this was a great afternoon read, but it was missing passion. I feel if the author gave a little more heat to the attraction between her characters it would have intensified the read and left a more memorable impression.

I recommend this read for anyone looking to read a light not so much involved read.
4 star review
"The player is about to get played"