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Hot Number

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Ms. Phillips has hit another winner with her second in her "Hot Series." This time we are treated to the youngest Jordan sister, Micki.

Micki is a tomboy and everyone's buddy. This is not a bad thing when you are a publicist to sports stars and you want to be taken seriously. Wait...it is a problem when the one man you want to notice you fails almost every time. Forget the fact that he gave Micki the hottest kiss she has ever received one night. Damian cleary doesn't remember it, and Micki is not going to remind him. Taking the advice of her friend Roper, and help from Sophie her sister, Micki, plans on making over herself into one "hot number" and hopefully knocking the socks off of Diamian in the process. What starts off as a good idea looks like it's going to fail until one too many iced teas' of the Long Island variety sets in motion a chain of events that will bring Damian right into her personal world. Will she have what it takes to hold on to this baseball bad boy, or will she play the part of "just a friend?"

Damian is a pro ball player. His focus is work and only work. He is at the end of his career and he doesn't need any complications to de-rail what he has going. Well, so much for best laid plans. Now he is facing the fact that he just might be a new dad, the one person he thought he was safe around, Micki, has turned into one sweet and attractive lady, who manages to pop into his head at the worst times. Oh and he can't forget the first kiss they shared. Talk about HOT!!! Now he is facing the fact that he needs to think of life after baseball and the one woman that he wants to have might just walk away from him. Or at the very least not allow herself to believe that the sports playboy has actually fallen for her. Will he be able to prove that he loves her and wants her for more than just a friend and publicist?

Damian and Micki are fun characters. Each have their own insecurities that have shaped the people that they've become. They are able to find the good in the other and complement each other. As a result of this chemistry between them, it's only a matter of time before they each fall for the other. This was a fun, fast read that fans of Ms. Phillips will enjoy greatly. I look forward to the last in the series. "Hot Number" is a read that you will want to add to your "must read list."

Official Reviewer for Romance Designs

Hot number is a fun read with some hot romance!

Micki Jordan is the youngest Jordan sister, a tomboy, working at her Uncle's PR firm. She wants to attact the attention of one of her clients, a ballplayer & asks her sister to give her a makeover to become more feminine. What she doesn't realize is how he feels about her & one night lands them in a bit of trouble that ironically starts their hot romance. They are hot until she finds out a secret that may hurt their relationship, or will it bring them closer??

I absolutely loved this book & read it in two nights. I was laughing out loud at some really funny parts. I can't wait to read the other books in this series.

Hot Number by Carly Phillips is a gem. Delightful dialogue, with hot and steamy chemistry.

Micki Jordan youngest sister in the Hot Zone PR Firm, doesn't know how to attract the man that has caught her eye. Micki has always been one of the boys, the tomboy in the family. She decided to break out of the mold and give her feminine side a try.

Damian Fuller top baseball star is at a crossroads in his life. His body isn't recovering from injuries like it used to when he was younger. He can't seem to get Micki Jordan out of his mind and this was before she decided to go girlie. Now its worse on his mind and his libido.

Just as they are connecting on a more intimate level a problem from Damian's past comes back to haunt him.

Damian and Micki both have things to work through that will make them stronger. Hot Number was a treat from page one. It was wonderful reconnecting with Micki's family members from the first book in the series Hot Shot.

Looking forward to Sophie's story.

What a fun book!! I am a BIG fan of trilogies and this is a fun set. Am anxiously awaiting the next one even though I will be sad to see it all end.

Micki Jordan is the baby of the Jordan family. A publicist to sports stars, she works in the family firm "The Hot Zone". Although she has always been more of tomboy, she's getting tired of always being seen as "one of the guys". Especially by Damian Fuller, the handsome major league ball player that she has been fantasizing about for a while. So her sister Sophie gives her a make over and "girl" lessons.

Damian has been attracted to Micki for awhile, even before her make over, but now it's getting harder and harder for him to deny the attraction between them. Even worse, Micki is not the sort of woman he normally goes out with. He knows that she's not the love `em and leave `em type. But no matter how much he tells himself to stay away from her, he can't seem to stop himself. When a jealous team mate of Damian's sets them up for a media scandal, Micki and Damian find themselves hiding out together away from the public eye. Before long the sexual tension between them overcomes all of Damian's good intentions and they fall into an affair. But when they return to the real world Damian is faced with the shocking information that an ex-fling is claiming that Damian is the father of her child. He needs Micki's skills as a publicist and her support as a friend. But once the crisis is over, can Damian convince Miki that he wants her in his life permanently?

Hot Number is the second book of what appears to be three books featuring the Jordan sisters. I had read the first book, Hot Stuff, about Annabelle Jordan and truly enjoyed it. When Micki's story became available, I grabbed it and devoured it in one sitting. Damian is a wonderful hero, dealing with the end of his career and yet not quite ready to let go. Micki is dealing with her own insecurities. Together they work, but neither is prepared to step out and take a chance. Hot Number was engrossing from page one. Sexy and emotionally satisfying, readers will be left waiting anxiously for Sophie Jordan's story!

Melissa

Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

1st half was predictable & boring, even though the premise sounded interesting. I'm not really sure what it is exactly but the writing didn't pull me to care about the characters or their romance. Overall, this book made me feel distant & didn't pull me in emotionally towards the hero & heroine. The book did pick up a bit towards the latter half. The pregnancy scandal revived my interest but not enough for me to want to read this book over again.

Read it if you're out of more exciting books to read & want to go to sleep soon.

Ok So I will skip the summary of the book being that so many other reviewers had that part covered. So I will get straight to my review.

This book was hard for me to get through for the simple fact that the characters were just not realistic, the scenarios were annoyingly cliché and every single part of the book was completely predictable.

Micki, the main character:

1) Was portrayed as being reserved and timid. She was meant to be a tomboy, guys guy who never wore skirts or makeup because she was self concious, yet she gets a (physical) makeover and is overly confident in her sexuality and outwardly seducts a multimillionairre hot shot major league baseball player, who also just happens to be the man that intimidated her for a month. I mean, this is a girl who had to get drunk to kiss this guy in the begining of the book. I could see how that scenario was supposed to work, but it ended up being stupid. I rolled my eyes numerous times.
2) ANNOYING. This part I blame on Ms. Phillips because she didn't spin how Micki rejected Damian very well. You reject a man who, you believe, will leave you because you are afraid that he will revert to his playboy ways after a pregnancy scandal. Yet he pours his heart out to you AFTER the scandal and you push him away anyway. And then you cry yourself a river because you miss him? Seriously?
3) Contradictive.

Damian was a sissy (just without the si, instead a pu). I cant even get into how horribly Damians character was because he was all over the place. Phillips meant to make him a macho man, but instead she turned him into a girly emotional idiot.

This whole Yank and Lola thing was so fake it made my teeth hurt. The sisters were bland and underdeveloped. Carter was supposed to be the bad boy, jerk but ended up falling in love with a girl who was spreading eagle for the entire major league (I'm sure she got some of the minors in there too.) And Carole... I think Phillips meant for us to sympathize with her and understand where she was coming from for doing the dumb things she did. But all she kept doing was going back and saying 'I don't want to be on welfare' and 'my life was so hard on welfare', so she goes after the staring center fielder and claims he's the father of her illegitimate child, when the real father is, guess what? A major league baseball player who is heads over heels in love with her two seconds away from take over the soon to be retired star of the team, which would mean that he makes good money, at least enough to pay the rent and put food on teh table. I could understand if she was just really really stupid but Carole was a legal secretary. Or if she was just a gold digger, but she wasnt. She just didnt want to be on welfare! Oh, and note to Ms Carly, being on welfare is not a valid reason to make a character emotionally scarred.

I gave this book a two star rating because the sex scenes were pretty okay, not great but ok. I am not a grouch and I love romance novels. I just hate ridiculous predictability in a book, and characters that don't make sense.

I am upset that I actually read the entire book. I bought two more books from this same author when I bought this one. I got them because this author had good reviews on Amazon, but I was let down. Hopefully they are not as painful as this one.

P.S. Oh yeah... and whats with all the crying??? I wish Phillips would have created a character that entered the scene whenever a person started crying just to kung fu karate chop them and tell them to shut the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks UP! I'm a girl, my nickname was crybaby when I was a kid and I wanted to hit someone every tiem a character started crying. I mean enough already!

What a terrific book - I read it in a day! Micki is a publicist falls for a hot baseball player after an amazing New Years Eve kiss. The characters are real and deal with real issues of self-esteem, family, pregnancy and trust. This book has humor, baseball and great love scenes. Take a chance you will enjoy! If you enjoy sport oriented novels check out Body Check by Deirdre Martin, Winner Takes All by Nora Roberts, Remember the Time by Annette Reynolds .

I could have read a book just about Micki, or just about Damian. They were such fun, interesting characters on their own, but together they hit everything just right. Learning who the real Damian is, as he was trying to figure it out for himself, and having Uncle Yank push each of them a little along the way was just so enjoyable. I love how he's declared himself the matchmaker for the girls! Micki was beyond lovable. Who can't relate to her self-esteem issues, and to see her fumble along the way a little bit before she found her guy. It was a nice progression and a believable one to see the path she took. She didn't completely leave her tomboy self in the past which I really liked, but just through trying new things she turned into a person she was happy being. But the nicest part was Damian was already falling for her long before she started experimenting with being more girly.

It was just a really well rounded story. A great relationship, a resolution to Yank and Lola, a side story with Carole and Carter - I wasn't really invested in this except for Damian's direct POV on it, and it seemed like Carter made a pretty fast 180 between the character we were introduced to, to the character he ended up trying to be, but it was a small detail and Micki and Damian overshadowed them, rightfully so! Fun, fast read and I jumping right into Sophie's book!

Once in a while, I will run across a new author who I have never read and it's such a surprising, refreshing and frankly titillating book...So many contemporary romances are predictable but not this one...Carly Phillips leaves you on the edge of your seat for the whole ride.

Going to see what else this author has to offer.