RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars
THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center is an absolutely endearing, entertaining and at times laugh-out-loud rom/com women’s fiction story featuring a female executive protection agent assigned to one of Hollywood’s most handsome and eligible leading men.
Hannah Brooks is an average looking woman which makes her perfect for her job as an executive protection agent, aka bodyguard. She can blend into the background to assess danger, but when needed she has the skill set to take down any threat.
Jack Stapleton is a movie star with a Greek god’s body and is a box office superstar, but after a tragic accident he has been out of the public’s eye for a few years. When his mother is diagnosed with cancer, he comes home to the family ranch to help. He does not want his mother to have extra worry over his stalker, so Hannah is told she must pretend to be his girlfriend.
Hannah does not believe anyone will believe she is Jack’s girlfriend, but the more time she spends with him, the more she falls for the real Jack, not the superstar. As Hannah begins to have real feelings for Jack and his family and tries to keep her own heart safe from heartache, she is pulled off her bodyguard duty. But Jack wants more and Hannah has to open her heart and believe her instincts or their relationship may be over before it begins.
This is just an all-around wonderful feel good, after some laughter and tears, story. I felt for Hannah immediately with her closed off emotions and the heartache of losing her mother, boyfriend, and best-friend almost all at once. Both Hannah and Jack had heartbreaking secrets that were written and revealed perfectly during the story. The snappy, snarky, witty, and realistic dialogue is a star in this book. The only sex scene is not until almost the end of the book, and it was not explicit. This book has everything I am looking for in a rom/com. I laughed, I cried, and I was unable to put this book down.
I highly recommend this book for the wonderful characters and a feel good ending!
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About the Author
Katherine Center’s new novel is WHAT YOU WISH FOR. She’s the author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire—both instant New York Times bestsellers—as well as The Lost Husband (now a movie starring Josh Duhamel), and five other bittersweet comic novels. She writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. Katherine has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Her books have made countless Best-Of lists, including Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2019, Goodreads’ Best Books of the Year 2019, BookBub’s Best-Loved Books of 2019, the Indie Next Great Reads List, SheReads’ Best Women’s Fiction 2019, BookList’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction, and many, many more. Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.
