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REVIEW: The Bodyguard

REVIEW: The BodyguardThe Bodyguard by Katherine Center
July 19, 2022
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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.

 

REVIEW


Oh my goodness. So many things I can relate to in The Bodyguard by Katherine Center, and everything is in our heroine, Hannah. She could be me. And I mean that in so many ways. Houston is home (where the book takes place) and I had a very similar relationship with my mother growing up.

The book starts off while Hannah is going through the worst time in her life. She has lost her mom and then had her boyfriend dump her on the day of the funeral. Again, this book was a real emotional read for me as I identified with a lot of Hannah’s situations and even how she viewed herself.

She is assigned to be the Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”) for the famous movie star, Jack Stapleton, when he comes home to Texas to visit his family. Only problem is Jack doesn’t want his family to know that he has a stalker and needs a bodyguard. Solution? Hannah has to pretend to be Jack’s girlfriend.

Can we guess where this goes?

The Bodyguard was a super sweet, super cute book told completely from Hannah’s point-of-view. I felt like this was also an emotional read, but again, this one hit a little close to home so that might be why.

You should definitely go pick it up and judge for yourself. 😉

 

About Katherine Center

BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and her newest, What You Wish For. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books 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.” Her books have made countless Best-Of lists, including RealSimple’s Best Books of 2020, Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2019, Goodreads’ Best Books of the Year, and many more. Bestselling author Emily Henry calls her summer 2022 book, The Bodyguard, “a shot of pure joy.” The movie adaptation of Katherine’s novel The Lost Husband (starring Josh Duhamel) hit #1 on Netflix, and her novel Happiness for Beginners is in production now as a Netflix original starring Ellie Kemper. Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog.

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