Review: Simply the Best

Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rory Garrett is not having the best life. Her younger brother got all the love from her father and step-mother and turned out to be a famous footballer. She wants to be a chocolatier but the closest she's got is operating a candy truck with her friend, who has just vanished with the entire contents of the truck leaving her with a $2,000 fine from the city and no way to pay it. She also has a guilty secret about why Client's last girlfriend dumped him, which may or may not have something to do with some whopping lies she told about him. Attending her brother's birthday party under protest, she gets a bit drunk and has a one-night stand with some sharp suited guy only to be humiliated when she finds he's left $500 on the night stand thinking she's a professional!

Brett Rivers is committed to being the best sports agent he can, he's 100% dedicated to his clients and doing everything he can for them. After he foolishly warned his best client Clint (Rory's step-brother) that his girlfriend was a gold-digger the two of them have been on the outs, especially when she dumped him and is now dating a basketball player who earns far less. When he realises that he has slept with his client's sister and implied she's a hooker he knows he has to do some serious damage limitation.

When Brett and Rory arrive separately at Clint's mansion the next day to apologise/explain he's gone, but they do find the body of his ex-girlfriend lying murdered on the patio. Now Rory and Brett both need to find Clint, before the police arrest him for murder!

This is peak SEP, despite being a recent publication (2024) it could easily have been written 30 years ago (eek) when book one in this series was published, the characters as just as sassy, the guys are just as sleek and driven.

This is a funny, opposites attract romance.

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