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A review by okiecozyreader
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
I love an author’s note at the end of a book, and in this one, she mentions this is her pandemic book (it doesn’t mention the pandemic). Instead, it was her escape and a book that did “soul-nourishing things” for herself. I love that and I can see how writing this could make a pandemic better.
I also finished Things You Save in a Fire, and I felt like I could see similarities. To me, both heroines are strong women in careers people don’t assume women would be powerful in (a firefighter and a bodyguard). She gives them strength and courage (and both don’t like slinky clothes and prefer pants). It’s interesting how neither of the women grew up with great families (and I think both have parents who left). Both stories involve a parent with cancer also.
This one, involves fake dating. Hannah loves going oversees and especially wants a job - but her boss decides that it is between her and a guy (she was in a relationship with) - and she has to prove herself in a high profile job with a movie star. His mother has been sick and wants them to come to their ranch, and the fake dating heats up. (Although I do love that her books are never uncomfortably spicy).
I love Katherine Center’s humor at often just the right time.
“Because it’s so much harder to love someone who’s difficult than to love someone who’s easy.” P17
“Cool pin necklace…”
Like a reflex I touched my beaded safety pin…
And the pin must have been more of a talisman than I’d realized, because only then did I magically remember how to talk.” P46
“I’d just have to wear girlfriend clothes and do girlfriend things and be … trapped behind that facade.” P103
Brazos River is named from “los brazos de Dios, which means ‘the arms of God” … because it drowned so many people that it’s where God collects their souls.” P124
“Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.” P259
I also finished Things You Save in a Fire, and I felt like I could see similarities. To me, both heroines are strong women in careers people don’t assume women would be powerful in (a firefighter and a bodyguard). She gives them strength and courage (and both don’t like slinky clothes and prefer pants). It’s interesting how neither of the women grew up with great families (and I think both have parents who left). Both stories involve a parent with cancer also.
This one, involves fake dating. Hannah loves going oversees and especially wants a job - but her boss decides that it is between her and a guy (she was in a relationship with) - and she has to prove herself in a high profile job with a movie star. His mother has been sick and wants them to come to their ranch, and the fake dating heats up. (Although I do love that her books are never uncomfortably spicy).
I love Katherine Center’s humor at often just the right time.
“Because it’s so much harder to love someone who’s difficult than to love someone who’s easy.” P17
“Cool pin necklace…”
Like a reflex I touched my beaded safety pin…
And the pin must have been more of a talisman than I’d realized, because only then did I magically remember how to talk.” P46
“I’d just have to wear girlfriend clothes and do girlfriend things and be … trapped behind that facade.” P103
Brazos River is named from “los brazos de Dios, which means ‘the arms of God” … because it drowned so many people that it’s where God collects their souls.” P124
“Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.” P259
Content Warnings
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, and Blood
Minor: Suicide attempt