ARC AudioBook Review: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

The Bodyguard
Author: Katherine Center

Narrator: Patti Murin
To Be Published: July 19, 2022
Audiobook

Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: June 9-14, 2022
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars

Book Description:

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.

Jessica’s Review:

I have loved most of Katherine Center’s novels that I have read, and I really enjoyed The Bodyguard!  Center does romance right for me.  It’s fun, sweet, clean and more!  In The Bodyguard, we have Jack, the hot and famous actor who has dropped off the radar. And he also has a stalker. And we have Hannah, who is a Executive Protective Agent (AKA Bodyguard) but she does not even look like someone who could kill you with just a pen, but she can, and will if she has to.  And she is really good at her job.  Then she finds herself having to protect Jack and going to see his family because his mother is sick. But Jack doesn’t want his family knowing about his stalker, so Hannah has to pretend to be his girlfriend.

As with Center’s other novels, you know how the ending should be, but going on this adventure with Jack and Hannah was a lot of fun! It is a fun, quick read with some hilarious moments that ensue (there is one with a cow….) And let alone the information that comes out and about with this stalker.  The banter between Jack and Hannah is fun and the story could 1000% not happen in reality, but it’s such a fun and feel good read!  Center has been called the reigning queen of comfort reads’ and she really is!  It’s a perfect summer read to get away from the mundanity of real life.  I must read more of her novels!

The narrator is Patti Murin, who is one I have enjoyed in the past and she did a great job with this novel!

Many thanks to the publisher Macmillian Audio for granting me an early audio copy via NetGalley to listen to and review!

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