4.5 stars 
 Wow what a week! Kristen Ashley's Sebring and Emma Chase's Appealed both released one day after the other! 
 Premise: 
 Brent Mason is a defence lawyer who finds out he is going head to head against a former childhood best friend, Kennedy Randolph. Except Kennedy is no longer a shy, awkward girl with glasses. Instead, he finds a self-assured, stunning woman...who wants to crush him in court and perhaps the most intimate parts of his anatomy beneath her Christian Louboutins heels. 
 Thoughts: 
 While EC's Tangled still comes out on top, this was a wonderful read that made me laugh, and it was no hard task devouring the entire book within hours. 
 If you have read Emma Chase's work, you will know that this story is told from our hero's perspective. Because nobody writes the male perspective quite like Emma. And yes our hero's thoughts are constantly sex-related (much like Drew's but with slightly less cocky attitude). The dirty jokes in his head are part of what makes Chase's work so good. But as are our hero's more quiet and sometimes sappy moments. Like his time with his shrink, Waldo. 
 Brent, despite losing a leg in his early years, was a popular highschool jock in school. As the story progresses you find out that Brent really didn't defend his childhood best friend back then. But having been a highschool kid I can forgive him for that. There was a lot of growing up to do. He does show how he regrets his decisions. I felt for both of them. He also didn't escape without some hurt. 
 Kennedy is my kind of heroine. She is strong, has a great sense of humour, is successful and committed to her career, she has a few insecurities from her childhood. 
 I love how Emma created well round characters for the most part. Even Justin, the 17 year old client of Brent. Perhaps just a little unbelievable was how fast Kennedy's best friend dished out all her past to Brent, when he comes see her for the first time in years. But that was a very minor moment. After finishing and then later processing the story, I also found it strange for Brent who has a rather large physical deflect not to speak up for his friend. I could believe it better if he didn't have that. 
 Overall? Loved it. I can't wait to see what Emma will give us next. I wonder if she will step away from lawyers who tend to be a confident bunch to some softer more introspective (but hopefully still dirty minded) type. Either way I will be reading it. 
 Quick stats: 
 Love triangle: (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] 
 Cheating: (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)] 
 HEA: (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)]