Simply Scandalous (MIRA) [Import] [Paperback]

Carly Phillips (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Mira Books (February 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778300722
• ISBN-13: 978-0778300724
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

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

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Simply....book 2 in this series.., December 21, 2003

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destiny morna "destiny21" (louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simply Scandalous (The Simply Series, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the second in a triology - following Logan who is a hard working public defender trying to avoid his father (a well connected judge) and his father's plans for his life. Logan doesn't want to run for political office and what better way to end his public career than to be involved in a scandal. Enter logan's sweet grandmother- who just happens to have the perfect woman for Logan--Cat, the owner of a catering company that has a shady past.

Cat and her company are hired to cater a party. Cat and Logan are thrown together by his grandmother and they have immediate chemistry. At first, Logan plans to use her but he quickly finds out that she is someone special. With some not so subtle help from his grandmother, Cat and Logan end up together.

I liked that Cat's sister and brother in law (stars of the first book) were kept in this and it introduced Grace (logan's sister) who will soon have a book of her own.

Simply Scandalous is a good book with fun characters, but be sure to read the first book before this to get the full background of the sister's story/family as it is not explained in this second novel.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Something Missing, March 11, 2004

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K. A. Stevenson "WIAPilot" (Tucson) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Simply Scandalous (The Simply Series, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought the three books of this trilogy all at one time. I'm sorry, but I wish that I had read at least one before I bought all of them. I could hardly read through parts of these books because they were so trite.

There were passages where Carly Phillips really grabbed my attention with her style. But the plots were just so boring. Also there were more sexual passages than I felt it needed. I felt it almost concentrated more on the sexual passages(for frustrated housewives?) rather than using the sex scenes to enhance the romance.

I don't know. Maybe it is just me. This was the kind of book I probably could have enjoyed in maybe my very early 20's.

If you are a mature woman (over 35) who has any semblance of depth - pass on this trio.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Taming the Cat, September 1, 2000

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Barbara O'Neill - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simply Scandalous (The Simply Series, Book 2) (Paperback)

I'm jealous! This guy has a house at the beach!

Logan Montgomery- public defender and son of a prominent judge, could be the poster boy for Sinatra's "I Did It My Way." Shunning the family mansion for an uncluttered beach cabin, a lucrative position with a prestigious Boston law firm for a public defender's job, the glamour of the bright lights political public office for the simple life.

Catherine Logan - 1/2 owner of Pot Luck (w/sister Kayla from "Simply Sinful"). Remember Cat? She's the one who turned into a virtual hellcat, with the fangs and claws, if anyone so much as looked cross-eyed at her sister. Given what I'd read of Cat previously, her tamed portrayal in "Simply Scandalous" came as a big surprise. But then, one could attribute it to the power of love.

Catherine is nothing like the glamour woman people would expect on the arm of Logan Montgomery and perhaps that is her appeal to him. Cat knows she doesn't walk the same social plane as Logan and his family and holds no illusions that, despite Logan's assurances to the contrary, she and him would ever have a future together. He sets out to convince her otherwise, and Cat finds herself falling in love with him. A confrontation with the press at the worst possible time, in the worst possible place, threatens to undermine all that Logan has accomplished in his quest to win Cat's heart, not the least of which is finally standing up to his overbearing, self-centered father. Unfortunately, we are not given a chance to learn much about Logan's mother, only that in the end she helped smooth things over.

The one thing that didn't ring true for me was that Logan's granny prided herself on how well she'd taught her grandson, taking on the role of parent when his mother and father couldn't be bothered. But it bothered me that she thought nothing of conniving to use an innocent woman in a plot of scandal to discredit Logan in the eyes of his father and others who wanted him to run for public office. All of her 'cuteness' aside, I found myself disliking Granny less and less as the story went on. I would much have preferred her to take a less unpalatable path for her grandson's 'scandal.'

Overall, though, "Simply Scandalous" does not disappoint. I do suggest reading the sisters' stories back-to-back, however. Much of their family background is explained in "Simply Sinful."