Hot Property [Hardcover]

Carly Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2008

Used - Good

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: HQN; Book Club EDITION edition (2008)
• ISBN-10: 0739497375
• ISBN-13: 978-0739497371
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,708,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips tossed away her legal briefs and a career as an attorney to become a stay at home mom. Within the year, she turned her love of reading into an obsession with writing. Over 25 published novels later, Carly writes sexy contemporary romances, striking a balance between entertainment and emotion, and giving her readers the compelling story they have come to expect and enjoy.

Carly is a New York Times bestseller, USA Today Bestseller and Publisher's Weekly bestseller. The triple play earned her a spot on Romance Writers of America's coveted Honor Roll. In 2002, Carly's novel, The Bachelor, became Kelly Ripa's "Reading with Ripa" pick on Live with Regis and Kelly, making it the first romance ever chosen on a nationally televised bookclub.

Carly received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and is a graduate of Boston University School of Law (J.D.). To date, Carly has over twenty-five novels to her credit, all available wherever books are sold.

When not writing or playing online, Carly loves to read, to knit, and to spend time with her family. She lives in Purchase, New York with her husband, two daughters and two soft-coated wheaten terriers who act like their third and fourth children.

For more information, visit Carly's always updated web site at www.carlyphillips.com where she has monthly contests, excerpts and much more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. - Joe Paterno, July 8, 2008

By 

Cherise Everhard (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Hot Property (Hot Zone) (Mass Market Paperback)

Center Fielder for the New York Renegades, John Roper, has had his share of publicity in the past. But since his last season, one that included an injury and losing the world series, that publicity has turned from positive to negative.

Amy Stone moves from Florida to New York to work as a publicist with her uncles company, Hot Zone, her first client is John. She has to get him into shape so he will be ready for spring training. But with his family pulling at him in every direction and their attraction blooming, her assignment gets harder and harder.

The Hot Zone series is what first hooked me into Carly Phillips books. I loved the first three in the series and John Roper was a character I was dying to hear more about. I loved him as Micki's best friend and his metrosexuality and his charm really added to the previous books.

I didn't hate this book, but I didn't love it like I did the first three. The problems that Amy has with her family and the problems that John has with his, really got on my nerves, I thought the issues were rather silly. For John to be all consumed with his family 24/7 and for Amy to be proving herself to a father who has been dead for so long, just didn't ring true to me.

That being said, there was plenty that I did enjoy. I liked Amy and John as a couple and thought their relationship was believable. I was happy to see him settle down. I laughed at some of the antics the side characters indulged in and I also liked catching up with some of the previous characters in this book. The epilogue was a little over top on the fromage scale for me, but all in all I enjoyed this book. I think Hot Property is a good day at beach or rainy afternoon read.

Hot Stuff (Hot Zone, Book 1)

Hot Number (Hot Zone, Book 2)

Hot Item (Hot Zone, Book 3)

Cherise Everhard, July 2008

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute 3.5 star end of a series, September 5, 2008

By 

Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Hot Property (Hot Zone) (Mass Market Paperback)

Professional baseball player John Roper is used to being in the tabloids. After aiding in losing the World Series, and nursing an injury, he's suddenly on the receiving end of some negative press and a little too much attention from a deranged fan. Add to that the smothering family that looks to him for everything and he's spread far too thin. New Hot Zone publicist Amy Stone is assigned to help shield him from his family and unadoring public while he recuperates and gets ready for the next season in upstate New York. Amy is new to the Big Apple and is happy to have left her nutty mother and aunt in Florida. Sparks fly between the duo making her job more difficult, especially when their families pull them in all directions and the press closes in. Will John ever be able to put himself first? Can Amy find a common ground with her family?

Phillips opposites attract story illustrates just how similar two seeming different people can be when familial obligations pull them in different directions. Roper has had a couple cameos in other Hot Zone novels, so it's nice to see him get his own novel. As much as I liked the story, I really wanted him to send his family packing. With an out of work actress for a mother, a ne'er do well baseball player wanna-be for a brother, and a sister who can't stand up to her mom all draining his wallet and time, it just got to be too much. It was a cute end to the series and as always, nearly blind Uncle Yank and his Labradoodle "Noodle" steal the show.

© Tracy Vest, September 2008

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just Like Soggy Cereal, July 8, 2010

By 

Wendy Raden "Wen" (Midwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Property (Hot Zone) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm not a big fan of Carly Phillips, but I've read several of her other books and really enjoyed them. This book made me think that someone else wrote the book and used her name.

John Roper, major league baseball player was the only character that was likeable. He puts the needs of everyone else before himself, he's having a lousy season, a stalker fan is making his life miserable, his brother is jealous of him and constantly leaking his whereabouts to the press, and to top it off his selfish mother wants his sole attention at any given moment.

A very meek, inexperienced, Amy Stone becomes his publicist and tries to get him to focus on himself for a change and she promptly starts an affair with him. She spends most of the book whimpering and whining because she doesn't know how John feels about her. Her kooky mother and aunt come to town and damn near ruin her professional relationship with her colleagues; I'm sure they were added for comic relief, but that whole concept falls flat to the point that they were just annoying.