Title:- The Bodyguard
Author:- Katherine Center
Date published:- July 19th 2022
No. of pages:- 309 pages
Genre:- Romance
Rating:-
Plot:- 4/5
Writing:- 4/5
Overall rating:- 4/5
She’s got his back. He’s got her heart. They’ve got a secret. What could possibly go wrong?
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with her bare hands. But the truth is, she’s an elite bodyguard and she’s just been hired to protect a superstar actor from his stalker.
Jack Stapleton’s a Hollywood heartthrob – captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, rising out of the waves in clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity.
When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah – against her will and her better judgment – finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover.
Protecting Jack should be easy. But protecting her own heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done…
This is such a cute romance novel that surprisingly I actually enjoyed reading it and couldn’t actually put the book down!
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than an elite bodyguard. She just had her mother’s funeral, her boyfriend broke up with her a day after her mother’s funeral…and soon her boss assigns her as a bodyguard to one of the heartthrobs of Hollywood…Jack Stapleton. Jack meanwhile is in Houston after an event that forced him to live in North Dakota–his mother is getting treatment for cancer and so Jack wanted to move to his family’s ranch. But before moving, Jack asks Hanna to become his fake girlfriend.
Hannah could have said no but she acted along as it is a part of her job…but can her heart stop falling for him?
I love the setting of the story. Although most romance books are highly predictable, I actually enjoyed reading this one. I couldn’t help but noticed the chemistry between Hannah and Jack, the friendship between the two and how it eventually became a romantic relationship in the end. There were some funny parts in the story which will make you laugh out loud. I also liked the way Hannah dealt with betrayal when her ex-boyfriend cheated on with her best friend. Anyway, I just loved the story and I actually liked that it was set in a ranch house which made me wish I can visit a ranch in Texas one day. Oh yes–there are no spicy scenes in the book.
Not only that–this book was so much fun to read and couldn’t help notice some A listed actors named in the story like Ryan Reynolds and Meryl Streep. Honestly, I wasn’t very sure if I would like the story but I ended up loving the story as a whole! Worth 4 stars.
BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including The Bodyguard, Hello Stranger, Things You Save in a Fire, and her summer 2024 book, The Rom-Commers. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books: bittersweet romantic comedies about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” The Netflix movie adaptation of her novel Happiness for Beginners—starring Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes—just hit the Global Top Ten in 81 countries, and the movie of her novel The Lost Husband was a surprise Netflix sensation in 2020, hitting number one and landing in their top 25 movies for the year. Her books have made countless Best-Of lists—at Audible, BookBub, and Book of the Month, as well as Goodreads’ Best Books of the Year, and Amazon’s yearly Top 100 books. Emily Henry calls The Bodyguard “my perfect 10 of a book,” and Jodi Picoult says of Things You Save in a Fire, “Just read it, and thank me later.” Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two almost-grown teenagers, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.
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