My review: 4.15⭐
A fun and cute listen!
Hannah is an unlikely bodyguard coming in rather stumpy at 5’5″. She loves her job so much, even trying to work the day after she buried her mother. Her boss thinks she needs time off, but she disagrees. He cancels her planned trip to Madrid and reassigns her to look out for a very famous actor, Jack, in Houston.
Jack has a stalker, so his team hires Hannah’s agency. He doesn’t think he needs protection, but ultimately agrees with one stipulation…she has to pretend to be his girlfriend when she meets his mom. He doesn’t want his family to know about the stalker and worry them. I bet it would be super inconvenient and difficult to pretend to be in a relationship with this hottie boom bottie ~ mmm hmmm.
Spoiler alert, but not really if you’ve read this trope before ~ typical fake relationship where they ultimately fall for each other. It’s a slow burn, so it takes a while for us to get to the good stuff. The good stuff is pg 13, which I didn’t hate at all for these two since they were super cute and lovable. Their bickering was even fun to listen to.
Robbie was one of the most unlikable characters I think I’ve ever read ~ man he was awful. Taylor wasn’t too great either. I did, however, LOVE Connie, Jack’s mom. She was all around delightful.
Narrated by Patti Murin for 10 hours and 30 minutes and she did a lovely job. I even enjoyed her Jack voice. Honestly, I don’t think I would have liked this as much if I read it. It was really a well done audiobook. She even did so great of a job that there was one part towards the end that almost made me tear up with how emotional she made Hannah sound.
This is my first time with this author and I’d love to read more of her work.
*Thanks to MacMillan Audio, Katherine Center and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
⬇ Purchase links ⬇
Save on The Bodyguard/a> at Booksamillion.com.Book blurb: Release date ~ July 19, 2022
She’s got his back.
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindgerten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker.
He’s got her heart.
Jack Stapleton’s a household name—captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid.
They’ve got a secret.
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. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it.
What could possibly go wrong???
Hannah hardly believes it, herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak. Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done.
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LOL…hottie boom bottie. You make me laugh!
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