British actor Zac Edwards is the latest heartthrob to
hit the red carpets. Hot, talented and rich, he sends women wild…all except
one.
Close protection officer Kat Parker hasn’t got time to
play celebrity games. She has one job: to protect Zac from the stalker
that seems to be dogging his every move.
Zac might get her hot under her very starched collar,
but Kat’s a professional – and sleeping with Zac is no way part of her remit…
I was lucky enough
to receive an Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) of this novel, with thanks to
NetGalley and HarperCollins UK. Scheduled for release on 12 June 2020, watch
for it coming to a bookstore near you soon!
If you read my last
review, I laid out two tests that a book has to pass - does the cover appeal,
and does the inside live up to the cover? I've added one more with this novel -
is it formatted correctly? Test one - I like the cover, it's appealing, cute,
and sets me in mind for a light-hearted novel with a generally used trope being
gender-swapped, which is always interesting to read.
Test two - does the
inside live up to the cover? I'm going to say not quite on this one - but not
in a bad way, just, not what I was expecting. The categories for this novel are
General Fiction (Adult), and Romance. Reading the blurb and seeing the
cover, I would have expected this to be mainly romance, with a bit of mystery
thrown in. However, I'll confess I couldn't read this late at night because I
was getting so wound up with the suspense and mystery, and I honestly found it
a bit spooky. That could be because I'm a gigantic fraidy-cat, I'll own up to
that, but this book was suspenseful. Yes, there was romance added in, but
rather than it being a usual 80% romance, 20% suspense (or something close to
that) split, I found it was more 50-50, and as mentioned, I had a hard time
reading this late at night as it was making me slightly unnerved.
Test three -
unfortunately this book had a few formatting errors in a few chapters that were
quite noticeable and quite detracting. I'm sure this will be corrected for the
final release, but unfortunately it did affect the flow in those chapters and
made it difficult to keep track of what was going on, and keep absorbed in the
novel.
Our characters are
both quite likeable people, and both have emotional baggage that they bring to
this relationship, bringing interesting, and sad, twists and turns. It was a
great plot, cleverly done, and the characters were flawed, adding a great sense
of realism to the novel. As mentioned above, I would note this as a 50-50
suspense/mystery/romance (although again, please note that I am a
self-confessed fraidy-cat), but still a great and interesting read.
Rating: 3.5/5
Click here to purchase from Amazon (available 12th June 2020).
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