Pushing His Luck by Kira Archer is a sweet story about two people who seem to be totally different from each other. I really liked Charley and Chris.

​​​​​The pretty cover and book blurb is what drew me into Pushing His Luck by Kira Archer. The first chapter is quite humorous and caught my immediate attention. This is the fourth book from her series, Winning the Billionaire, and it can be read as a standalone.

The female heroine, Charley Claybourne, is an interesting character. I liked her determination, and her ability to stand firm, especially when it came to her job as a risk insurance assessor. She has a good heart, and becomes a bit adventurous when she travels around the globe with her new client.

Christopher Lachlan is the CEO of one of the largest vacation home rental companies in the world. His "need for speed" may prevent him from getting insured, and Charley has the final say. Chris is safe throughout all of his risky endeavors and sharing them with Charley becomes more than just business.

I liked this story, however, the plot dragged at times and the ending was disappointing.

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I haven't had the pleasure of reading this author before but I will definitely look her up again, this is a good story with wonderful characters.

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4.5-Stars for this fun & flirty read Pushing His Luck by Kira Archer
This is the best fun & flirty, just an all around light hearted read! Loved the meet cute, I was hooked and was surprised how quickly I read the book, the banter between Chris & Charley was not only humorous but relatable, especially seeing Chris is basically and adrenaline junkie and Charley, her job title is risk assessor, can they be any farther apart on the spectrum. But, it all comes down to the chemistry and later in the book these two definitely brought the steam! It's got enough of a storyline to keep it interesting & wanting more, yet light enough to be a weekend beach read, the last thing I have to say; would certainly recommend Kira Archer's latest (& I feel one of her greatest), Pushing His Luck, Book 4 in the Winning the Billionaire series!
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I absolutely loved Chris in this book. He was so charming, sexy, and downright fun. And I loved the way he would get Charley out of her shell, experience things that she was too afraid or worried to try. They were such a good team balancing each other out. But I am also glad Charley stayed true to herself as Chris did too. Their gang of friends were such a hoot, I laughed at their antics. And having read their books as well was even better. Overall their story was very good. The ending was perfect, with them accepting each other just as they are.

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Fun and flirty read. Great conclusion to the series.Charlotte (Charlie) and Chris are polar opposites. There first meeting is a funny disaster and it only gets more interesting from there. You will get your fill of laughter. Charlie is cautious and staid. She doesn’t like to take risks and always seems to be running into mishaps. Chris is gregarious, outgoing and adventurous. They have every reason not to be attracted to each other but the heart knows What it wants. This is a quick and fun book that will give you a lovely kick as you read.

Pushing His Luck!!

This was a fun opposites attract story about Charley who is a risk adverse insurance assessor, and Chris, an adrenaline junkie CEO. These two shouldn’t be a perfect foil for the other, but they click. Charley knows that she should not act on her attraction to the man who could help her set her new assessment company on the right path to success! Especially since he thrives on doing things that would not give him a positive rating! But Chris challenges Charley and she does rise up to each of his challenges (as long as it’s on her terms!). From the point of meeting over chocolate milk, the chemistry between them is palpable, although they each try to avoid it. This is a fun, feel good story.

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3.5 Stars

If you’re in the mood for a light, fun and sexy read Pushing His Luck will be a great choice!

Charley’s luck isn’t really the best. A traumatic event in her past left her in desperate need to keep control of everything at all times… and like a self-fulfilled prophecy, she ends up being a klutzy duck 90% of the time. With a career as a risk assessor, she lives for safety and prudence and she is very comfortable with that.

Chris’ middle name would probably be Daredevil (if he had one, I don’t know for sure). His adrenaline-seeking lifestyle clashes with what people, and especially insurance companies, feel the CEO of a million-dollar company’s should be. But in order to keep being a CEO, he needs insurance, and that means passing a risk assessment. Que in trying to convince Charley, the safety police, that all the stuff he does is not that risky. In order to do this, he’ll take Charley with him in one of his trips, so she can see for herself that he is not as reckless as it seems.

Chris and Charley’s romance is of the opposites-attract-but-they-don’t-want-to-give-in-to-it variety. The more time they spend together though, they realize they’re not all that different, and soon their attraction is too much to handle. I really enjoyed their banter and baiting of each other.

Chris was a total carefree spirit, a bit of an adrenaline junky but in an “I-want-to-experience-life-at-its-fullest” kind of way. He had his typically male moments where he completely fucks up, but he was charming enough to get back in my good graces. I loved witnessing Charley’s evolution. There was a reason for her attitude towards life, but with Chris’s help, she comes to some realizations that help her deal with said issues.

While I really enjoyed Pushing His Luck, it didn’t totally suck me in as the first two books in this series. I felt there were some missed opportunities to deepen some aspects of the story, and it left me at times feeling disconnected from the characters. Still, this is a super fun, light and entertaining read that had me laughing from start to finish.

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DNF at 27%.

Charley Claybourne is an insurance assessor. She's started up her own business and is about to meet her new client, the billionaire daredevil Chris Lachlan who she has sort of won under false pretences because he thinks she still works for one of the most prestigious firms of loss adjustors in the city. Desperate to calm her nerves she tries to buy some lactose-free chocolate milk only to get into a tug-of-war with a handsome guy over the last bottle. Of course there's a chocolate milk related accident and of course the guy is her new client.

I enjoyed the previous books in this series but I couldn't believe in either Chris or Charley and what felt charming, endearing, funny and sweet in the previous books felt laboured. I can't put my finger on what I didn't like. Maybe its the idea of two adults fighting over chocolate milk?

Anyway I picked it up and put it down twice - no point in carrying on if reading feels like a chore.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

This was the first book from this author that I have read and it was an ok read for me. This was book 4 in the series and it could be read as a standalone. They first meet fighting over chocolate milk. Christopher and Charley were an ok couple. They never really seemed like they should be together and that is what made them an ok couple to me. There was no real heat in this story and I do like my stories with a little heat. If you are looking for a sweet romance then this is the story for you.

After being let go by her company,Charley is starting her career again and the Lachlan account could be the turning point. I order to assess Chris, Charley gets talked into accompanying him on a business trip. There are sparks between them right from the start, and their reasoning for now giving in to them valid. But while traveling and staying together, for how long will they be able to ignore the attraction.
This is a sweet and fun read between two absolutely opposite characters, one a risk assessor and the other an adrenaline junkie. I loved the banter and sparring between them and Charley’s clumsiness provided some laugh out loud moments.
Pushing his luck is a quick and entertaining read.

While I liked Chris and Charley, I found it difficult to really get into the story until almost the 50% point. Once Chris introduced her to a bit of the adventures in his life, Charley became a more interesting character.
Not having read the previous books in the series, I did find the dynamics a little confusing. I assumed at the beginning that Chris and Charley didn’t know each other, but their circles overlapped, so maybe they did?
My favorite part was the ending and epilogue! Not to spoil anything, but it wasn’t your traditional HEA...although it is a HEA for them. It was a refreshing and interchange of pace!

This is the fourth book in the series, but it stands alone. Reading the other books is not required to enjoy this book, but it will add so much background and make you love the whacky friends that pop up and enrich this story. This book has some sex and a handful of f-bombs. Neither thing is overwhelming to the story, but if those things will cause you to leave a bad review, this isn't the book for you.

The pairing in this book surprised me, as I had expected Chris to stay paired off with Cass, but I have to admit that I really liked Charley. I struggled with some of her decisions, but I did enjoy watching the way that she and Chris balanced each other out and the way that she so obviously liked Chris for Chris. And Chris was great. If only we could all find a hot, too-good-for-words billionaire to whisk us off to beautiful places. Perhaps without the whole chocolate milk part, though.

The story had some of the same laugh out loud humor as previous books, but it was more focused on their adventures and relationship so it didn't quite meet the same level. Now, that said, Brooks set the bar stupidly high, so I don't hold this against this book at all. (To my delight, Brooks popped up enough to make me fall more and more in love with him. He's my absolute favorite Kira Archer character ever.)

It was a really cute, really sweet ending to a fantastic series. I would recommend this book and the entire series to anyone who enjoys a really fun, well-written rom-com. You can't go wrong with a Kira Archer book!

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.

I really wanted to like this book, but it was really tough to finish. When I give a bad review I usually try to find aspects of the book that I like. I couldn’t find any in this book. The initial “meet cute,” where Chris and Charley fight over the last bottle of chocolate milk was cloying and hackneyed. The plot device of Charley being a Risk Assessor and deciding for an insurance company she doesn’t work for was implausible (30+ year insurance executive here). I might be able to get over these issues if the characters were compelling and the love story interesting. They were not. If you have read the prior books in this series, you may want to read this, otherwise, don’t bother.

So, I liked this book but I also had a lot of issues with this book. So I love this series especially the first two books, but after those it kind of dropped off for me. First I'm going to start with the things I liked. Honestly, I love that it's in the same universe as the other books and I like how involved the characters in the previous books are. I also liked Charley and Chris together I think they made a good pair but I will say I'm confused as to why Kira Archer had Chris and Cass together to just have them separate but then also Cass was involved in this book in a capacity. I just felt like it was such an unnecessary plot point from the second book. Especially because we never really find out why Cass and Chris broke up so it just feels like a major plot hole to me. Also, I know this would have been too similar to her last book but I really wish that Chris had shown up at the plane the boardroom thing after just didn't really do it for me. It was cute but it wasn't what I think the characters deserved. Also, honestly I'm really disappointed with the epilogue, I liked that we know that the other characters have more kids and stuff but I wish that Charley and Chris were at least engaged or had a kid themselves instead of it being that they've been together for 3 years and nothing. Overall, I enjoyed it but it wasn't my favorite.

Kira Archer is an auto read for me! I absolutely love her style and her special brand of crazy romance in a book! I loved this story to the nth degree! We meet the last man standing Chris and the total control freak risk assessor Charley. The story takes off full throttle and doesn't stop until the end.
Charley is Izzy's cousin and after Charley gets canned from her previous job and starts her own business, Izzy prompts Chris to meet with Charley. If Chris can't get insurance, he'll lose his business and will have to step down as CEO from the board. There's a lot riding on Charley's assessment.
Should be noted that Chris Lachlan lives life on the edge, from diving with sharks to skydiving, zip lining... you get the picture and it's all there online for Charley to see. Charley is totally risk adverse. Living her life a little too safely. Cousin Izzy decides that Charley should tag along with Chris while he goes and checks a couple of his properties that are out of the country, Charley balks fearing that it would be seen as inappropriate but does go. No surprise when she goes to the plane and Chris is the pilot. They both get a little surprise when their gaggle of friends decide to tag along for that ride to Costa Rica making both uncomfortable. We get peeks and snippets of them throughout the book at a few points. The way their relationship evolves was written perfectly and honestly funny too. Chris has a wicked sense of humor and he manages to loosen Charley up. Enough for her to take partake in some pretty adventurous activities with him! And she likes it! She also likes him, and the feeling is mutual. She battles the worry that she'll be seen as the woman who slept with her client, but she also loses that fear along the way. There's something else she's held back waiting for the right time to bring up but that right time doesn't seem to come up until it does and then... well. Read the book!
Truth told Izzy got on my last dang nerve in this book and I'm waiting to see what brave soul Kira's going to match her up with! I feel for the guy already.
Great story, I loved every single minute!

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That was one of the most amazingly unexpected endings I've ever read.
This book was a-ma-zing. I honestly can't describe how much I love couples who are complete opposites but still find common ground.
Charley and Chris met because she was hired to asses risk for his company and what she saw clearly indicated that she so wouldn't recommend him and that was when Izzy, Charley's cousin and Chris' friend suggested that they should go together to check out what Chris usually did when he was checking out one of his property's, Charley and Chris reluctantly agreed.
When they were about to head out, the gang (unsurprisingly) showed up to join them on their flight (I can't express how much I love these couples, honestly) and (also unsurprisingly) they had a pool going on about when Charley and Chris finally got together (I still don't know who won, damn it!).
Charley and Chris knew they liked each other, but they also had a thousand reasons why being together would be a bad idea and they did their best to avoid that, this was the perfect example of "They didn't meant to fall for each other" because they fought so hard to ignore what was going on between them and used excuses like "Chris is so wild and likes to take risks and Charley likes to asses risk and stay in safety" that they didn't realize that this is exactly the reason they complement each other so well, given that Chris makes Charley more outgoing, free and wild and Charley makes Chris more careful and less reckless which is the main reason of why I love them as a couple.
Overall I loved them together, I loved to see their friends all together again (I missed them) and I loved how they ended up together and how they have this free and relaxed relationship where they are both happy as long as they're together.

Charley learns to relax a bit!

Charley Claybourne just wanted some chocolate milk to get something into her stomach before an important business meeting when an attractive stranger also grabbed the jug at the same time causing a mess when it dropped to the floor. Charley made her meeting and she was surprised the client she was supposed to assess about insuring was the same guy that tried to grab her chocolate milk. Christopher Lachlan needed insurance to stay as head of the company on vacation home rentals he founded as it went public. Charley didn’t tell Chris that she had been laid off from the company when he invited her to go with him to check out some of his properties.

Pushing His Luck is so much about opposites attract because Charley plans everything determines risk factors and her job is perfect for her but Chris who is the total opposite which makes an interesting story in how Charley and Chris butt heads trying to deal with each other and that makes it an interesting book to read!

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4 stars
This is a fun, sweet and short romance between Christopher Lachlan and Charley Claybourne. Right from the start of the story, where we have the meet cute over gluten free chocolate milk, I knew I was going to like these two characters.
Christopher Lachlan is the CEO of his own vacation home rental company. He has a meeting with Charley, the risk assessor, to get insured and remain CEO. (I have to admit, I was a little confused by this. Shouldn't he already have insurance?) Charley is trying to start up her own business as a risk assessor and Chris is her first potential client. Chris is a risk-taker in life. He likes to try adventurous things--skydiving, zip lining, scuba diving, etc. Charley is the exact opposite.
She is talked into going on a business trip with Chris, where he will be checking out his properties, so she can see what happens and assess the risk involved.
Chris and Charley were adorable and sweet together. The things that happen to Charley are quite funny--from the chocolate milk incident to the spider in the car to the poker fiasco. It was an enjoyable, quick read.
Thank you to Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I had to give this 3 Stars because even though I kinda liked the story i had problems:

-Chris and Charley just never really hit me as a good couple
-The plot about his lifestyle being the pivot point for keeping his job rang false
-There seemed to be pushing "women power" almost to the point of it becoming political
- Very important point is I didn't really like the ending
- and finally of all the books in this series this was the least entertaining and really looked like she phoned it in when you compare it to the other books in this series which I really enjoyed.

I could probably talk more but bottom line? It was a lame effort in comparison to all the other books in this series and at 150 pages it seemed like a lot less effort went into this story and it showed.