Rating: 
Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Ben Callahan readily accepted the offer from Emma Montgomery. As a private investigator, he is more accustomed to clients who tried to weasel their way around expenses and final pay, rather than Emma's generous offer. He not only needs to cover his own bills, but also the cost of the independent living community where he has placed his mother. Emma's job is also intriguing. Emma believes her granddaughter is "in the process of finding herself and she needs a keeper."The first moment Ben sees the picture of Emma's granddaughter, he's hooked. Just looking at Grace Montgomery's picture is enough to rev up his libido. So Ben travels to New York City, taking the apartment across the hall from Grace. When he sees Grace in person, his reaction is equally instant and intensive. The sight of Ben in her hall sends Grace's adrenaline pumping. She has escaped to New York to experience life and discover her self-identity. A treat like Ben is just one of the perks of living away from home, even if she mostly watches from a distance. Ben adds spark and zing simply with his presence. Grace has had enough of men who wine and dine her for her connections and family money. She believes Ben to be different. He seems to let her know up front just who he is and what he wants. Little does Grace suspect Ben's connection to her grandmother. Carly Phillips presents a highly seductive novel in SIMPLY SENSUAL. Her heroine lends the novel a marvelous sparkle with her spirit and spunk. Phillips also lends comic relief with Emma Montgomery, who is charming, refreshing, and addictive. I would love to see her matchmaking skills reoccur in another of Phillips' delightful romances! Highly recommended.
Rating: 
Summary: Only because I finished it, but really didn't want to!
Review: Carly Phillip's third installment of the SIMPLY series is a winner with me. We knew after SIMPLY SINFUL that Grace was the next person Emma Montgomery was turning her matchmaking eye towards. Grace has been living in New York off her trust fund when she realizes that she cannot put her parent's expectations behind her. So, learning from her brother, she stops taking money from her trust fund and finds a job helping people. She is hired as a photographer to create a brochure that will show how poorly some children live. This is tricky because Grace wants to show the kid's potential while touching people with her pictures so they will give generously to the fund. In order to accomplish her goal, she has another job to supplement her income. She must also travel to areas most people consider dangerous in New York to get her pictures. Grace has done this without the knowledge of her family. As a result of her tight lips her grandmother, Emma, is concerned over her welfare. Emma hires a P.I., Ben Callahan, to keep an eye on Grace. Emma isn't looking for personal details but rather a report that Grace is happy and safe in her life. Ben needs the extra money to help his ill mother move into an assisted living facility. Ben takes residence in the apartment across from Grace. There is an instant attraction when they first meet. This book showcased the chemistry better than the last two books in the series. As for Grace, she is trying to go beyond her comfort zone. She feels an attraction to Ben and decides to do something about it. She is cute as she tries to play off the sexy vixen when she really is a sweet and down-home kind of person. Grace finds Ben tagging along with her as she goes into the neighborhoods to take her pictures. On one particular day, she is attacked and told not to return or she will be seriously hurt. This starts a minor mystery that brings Ben and Grace closer together. Grace is happy to have found someone who wants to be with her because of who she is and not what family she belongs to. Lots of tension breaks out when Grace finds out the truth about how Ben came into her life. I enjoyed the way this relationship unfolded. Two adults who felt something and let things go naturally. They do average activities like washing a car and turn it into a sensual chore. This is the best of the series to date and maybe we will find Emma working her magic again sometime soon.
Rating:
Summary: Simply HOT, SEXY, and SEDUCTIVE
Review: Carly Phillip's third installment of the SIMPLY series is a winner with me. We knew after SIMPLY SINFUL that Grace was the next person Emma Montgomery was turning her matchmaking eye towards. Grace has been living in New York off her trust fund when she realizes that she cannot put her parent's expectations behind her. So, learning from her brother, she stops taking money from her trust fund and finds a job helping people. She is hired as a photographer to create a brochure that will show how poorly some children live. This is tricky because Grace wants to show the kid's potential while touching people with her pictures so they will give generously to the fund. In order to accomplish her goal, she has another job to supplement her income. She must also travel to areas most people consider dangerous in New York to get her pictures. Grace has done this without the knowledge of her family. As a result of her tight lips her grandmother, Emma, is concerned over her welfare. Emma hires a P.I., Ben Callahan, to keep an eye on Grace. Emma isn't looking for personal details but rather a report that Grace is happy and safe in her life. Ben needs the extra money to help his ill mother move into an assisted living facility. Ben takes residence in the apartment across from Grace. There is an instant attraction when they first meet. This book showcased the chemistry better than the last two books in the series. As for Grace, she is trying to go beyond her comfort zone. She feels an attraction to Ben and decides to do something about it. She is cute as she tries to play off the sexy vixen when she really is a sweet and down-home kind of person. Grace finds Ben tagging along with her as she goes into the neighborhoods to take her pictures. On one particular day, she is attacked and told not to return or she will be seriously hurt. This starts a minor mystery that brings Ben and Grace closer together. Grace is happy to have found someone who wants to be with her because of who she is and not what family she belongs to. Lots of tension breaks out when Grace finds out the truth about how Ben came into her life. I enjoyed the way this relationship unfolded. Two adults who felt something and let things go naturally. They do average activities like washing a car and turn it into a sensual chore. This is the best of the series to date and maybe we will find Emma working her magic again sometime soon.
Rating: 
Summary: I Could Hardly Finish This Book...
Review: I do not usually write negative reviews, but I could hardly finish this series. I had to literally will myself to finish the book because I had already bought it! I am all for a few "steamy" scenes, but give me a break. Toward the end of this book, it seemed as though every other page was "hot, piercing throb" of various parts of the anatomy. I am as red blooded as the next woman - but this was like reading "an adult movie." I am not a prude or part of the "right wing," but steamy sex scenes just don't replace a good romance.... or at least not in this series.
Rating:
Summary: I Could Hardly Finish This Book...
Review: I do not usually write negative reviews, but I could hardly finish this series. I had to literally will myself to finish the book because I had already bought it! I am all for a few "steamy" scenes, but give me a break. Toward the end of this book, it seemed as though every other page was "hot, piercing throb" of various parts of the anatomy. I am as red blooded as the next woman - but this was like reading "an adult movie." I am not a prude or part of the "right wing," but steamy sex scenes just don't replace a good romance.... or at least not in this series.
Rating:
Summary: I usually stick to full length novels because
Review: I feel these abbreviated series romances do not always allow the author to fully flesh out the characters and so I usually find them lacking. This book, although very well written was no different.
This is the story of P.I. Ben Callahan who is contracted by a matchmaking grandmama to follow her granddaughter, Grace, to make sure she's safe and report back on her activities. It seems that Grace has recently renounced her blue bloodlines and decided it is time to live on her own efforts rather than on Daddy's cash. Grandma is understandably worried since Grace is all alone in New York and so Ben swallows her unlikely story and despite his own misgivings accepts to befriend Grace and report all back to Grandma. However, things become a little difficult for Ben when Grace gets a load of his gorgeous self and decides to seduce him.
There was very little I enjoyed about this book. First, I thought it was well-written and the love scenes were very steamy. But in the end I simply could not care for either Ben or Grace and I never felt as if I knew who they were supposed to be. The relationship seemed to me to be based on their mutual attraction, their sexual chemistry and not much else. Also, the plot was flimsy and the matchmaking grandma plot device was in my opinion just plain silly. In short, while this book was an easy read, the relationship was too superficial for my taste. I will give this author's full length novels a try though because I really did enjoy her writing style. Recommended with many reservations :0)
Rating: 
Summary: Hot, hot, hot
Review: I'm a huge fan of Carly Phillips' work... But I've come to the conclusion that by the time she gets to the third book in each of her series' she's just too tired to flesh our her work and make it shine like everything else she writes... I had trouble even getting into Simply Sensual, let alone finishing it, and that is not the case for any other Phillips book I've ever read. The plot was dull, the characters were flat and there was nothing gripping to keep the reader pushing through the novel. The only reason I finished it is because I had read the other two books in the series and I felt I should see it through to the end. For anyone out there looking for a good read... DON'T LOOK HERE! Try Phillips' other novels or go elsewhere entirely. Simply Sensual was "simply" a waste of time!
Rating:
Summary: Carly, did you run out of steam?
Review: I'm a huge fan of Carly Phillips' work... But I've come to the conclusion that by the time she gets to the third book in each of her series' she's just too tired to flesh our her work and make it shine like everything else she writes... I had trouble even getting into Simply Sensual, let alone finishing it, and that is not the case for any other Phillips book I've ever read. The plot was dull, the characters were flat and there was nothing gripping to keep the reader pushing through the novel. The only reason I finished it is because I had read the other two books in the series and I felt I should see it through to the end. For anyone out there looking for a good read... DON'T LOOK HERE! Try Phillips' other novels or go elsewhere entirely. Simply Sensual was "simply" a waste of time!
Rating:
Summary: Only because I finished it, but really didn't want to!
Review: It is just too corny- not believable. I cannot believe this is a best selling book- maybe for 12 year olds, but not for adults. The plot is too simplistic and though the hero is great, it just doesn't ring true. Save your money for Jude, SEP, Girls of Summer or Sweet Hush by Deborah Smith. Don't waste your money; you will be sorry.
two stars only because I finished it. I gave it to my sister who also said it was the worst book she's read in ages, and she reads a book a day!
Rating:
Summary: Hot, hot, hot
Review: Phillips does her best to pull the reader in right from the beginning. Her steamy scenes keep you longing for more, and the plot thickens as threatening notes are thrown into the mix. A great read; you'll never want to put it down!
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