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Our heroine, the beautiful and outspoken Lili Kavanaugh, is a shoe designer and university lecturer and when someone tries to Kidnap her her family hires bodyguard Matt Hawkins to keep her safe. Things don't go according to plan however and Matt and Lili soon find themselves running for their lives.
Jerott tries to paint our heroine as an original fly-by-the-seat of her pants kind of gal, but all she really does is create an irritating, spoilt and horribly predictable character, who, although she is a university lecturer, had a sourly lacking vocabulary and behaves, intially like a spoilt and silly simpleton. Is this to remind us of the link between our heroine and the past owner of her valuable shoes, a ganger's girlfriend?
Are we suppose to sympathize that, after the aborted kidnap attempt, she went shopping for a little swimsuit with bodyguards on tow and then went swimming in the local pool? And if she's "not that rich" how can her family afford to hire a whole body of 'personal security agents? Who is she, Chelsea Clinton?
Granted, the sex does sizzle (thus my two stards) but all in all, predictable, with a cardbord cut out hero, boring premise (shoes, like lipsticks may be our private obsession, but who wants to read a novel about it..?) and a shallow and irritating heroine.
Give this one a miss and read any of Karen Robards contemporary novels, Susan Andersen or the queen of romantic suspence, Linda Howard.
HER BODYGUARD is one of the most entertaining and charming books I've read this year. Sparks fly between the flamboyant Lili, and the more reserved Matt, and it's wonderful to watch Lili try everything in the book to get a rise out of Matt. (Wink! Wink!) Lili is aggressive, yet very feminine, and I always like seeing that kind of balance in a female character. The mystery, having to do with a 1930's gun moll's pair of shoes, was so unique and it created a wonderful base to the story. There was this one scene, just before Matt and Lili run away from the bad guys, where there is this intense and vivid gun battle, that frankly, I was enthralled by. My heart was pounding and I actually held my breath! It was so well written, I felt as if it were taking place right before my eyes. HER BODYGUARD offers smart and sexy characters, a fun storyline and great writing, what else can a reader ask for?
This book did not make it to my keeper collection, but I will read other books from this author. I hate it when authors guess about something because it sounds good. For instance, when the heroine asks to see her bodyguards gun. He hands it to her and checks the safety and then warns her after taking the clip out that there is still a round in the chamber. 2 Major problems, no one trained in guns ever hands over a weapon w/ammunition in it, espcecially a round chambered, and 2 Glocks do not have safetys. The only safety is that the trigger has to be pulled.
After reading that it was harder for me to by his professionalism, and this is where it lost me a bit.
Very original and refreshing storyline. Good way to pass the time. I would recommend reading it.
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