Kiss Me If You Can by Carly Phillips Review

September 4, 2010 | Author Jessica

Sam ‘Coop’ Cooper has suddenly become the city’s most eligible bachelor when he stops a robbery in progress, is caught on the news and is rewarded with an engagement ring by the jewelry store. In Carly Phillips’ Kiss Me If You Can, Lexie is amazed to see a ring awarded to Coop that exactly matches the diamond necklace her grandmother always wears with her housedress and Lexie decides she needs to purchase the ring for her grandmother’s birthday. Coop, after being approached by the desperate marriage-minded women in the city to the point they are mailing him their underwear, thinks Lexie’s approach is just a clever way to meet him. When his apartment is broken into he starts to realize that the ring in question must be more than it appears at first glance.

Lexie has always been a free spirit and fears that agreeing to a relationship means she is signing away her freedom. But the more she works with Coop to figure out who is out to get the ring and why they want it, the more she is drawn to his great spirit and undeniably good looks. Lexie soon starts to realize that her grandmother isn’t the innocent woman she pretends to be. To add complications to an already complicated situation, Coop finds himself the center of the Bachelor Blogs, an online blog ran by his own newspaper.

Kiss Me If You Can is a good read, I love the grandmother and her friend. Lexie’s path of self-discovery to realize why she runs/escapes all the time was a great moment that caused me to stop and rethink why I do some of the things that I do. How our family relationships from our childhood impact us as adults is always intriguing. The secondary characters in this novel are fabulous, entertaining with believable quirks that made the novel a fun, entertaining read. The second book in the series is about Sarah Rios, one of my favorite secondary creatures, I will be definitely continue reading Carly Phillips’ series to get more of the character’s stories.

Bachelor Blog Series:

Kiss Me If You Can

Love Me If You Dare

Rating: five