- Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Silhouette (Aug 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0373654693
- ISBN-13: 978-0373654697
- Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 10.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 23 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #632,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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wonderful contemporary romance, Aug 2 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Texas Bodyguard's Proposal (Mass Market Paperback)
McCord Jewelers security consultant Rafe Balthazar does not want anything to do with the diva, but Blake McCord asked him as a favor to keep Gabriella McCord safe while she is in the States. Their first meeting at the McCord family mansion is quarrelsome as he dictates two rules and she counters with what he is to do and not do. Gabby insists she will not allow paparazzi, crazed fans, and others to lock her in a cage. She leaves for her aunt's birthday party while he figures she will prove troublesome, but he protected POTUS so some gold spooned spoiled beauty should prove relatively easier.Neither is prepared for their strong unwanted attraction. Gabby reels from the very public end of her last relationship so does not want a new one and in spite of what the tabloids say she does not do short term trysts. Rafe grieves the deaths of his wife and child and does not need the aggravation of publicity if he becomes her next boy toy. However, everything changes when her last lover Miko arrives wanting her back. He shakes up Rafe who cannot abide anyone but him with his beloved Gabby, but he must somehow persuade her they belong together permanently.
The second tale in the Foleys and the McCords continuity series (see Crystal Green's THE TEXAS BILLIONAIRE'S BRIDE) is a wonderful contemporary romance starring two seemingly battling combatants falling in love. Both are fully developed characters enhanced by a strong support cast. Fans will enjoy this fine though straightforward tale of opposites attract as Texas dirt Rafe struggles to overcome his guilt re his late spouse and knowing he will be a paparazzi target as a gold-digger while European sophisticate Gabby fears the tabloids will have a field day with her beloved latest "sex toy". Karen Rose Smith is a sure shot for providing readers with entertaining contemporaries.
Harriet Klausner
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
great plot, horrible execution, April 5 2010
By Ashlyn "ash" - Published on Amazon.com
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The Texas Bodyguard's Proposal starts out with a great plot that could have been turned into a great story, unfortunately the author wasn't able to make it happen.THE BOOK:
Gabby has come to Dallas to help her families jewelry store, shes going to be the new model for the new jewelry line. Her cousin Blake has gotten one of the best bodyguards that he knows to protect her, Rafe. From the first contact she has with him she feels a connection, but after her scandal in London she's scared of getting involved with any man.
Rafe took the job of babysitting Gabriella McCord because Blake, his boss and friend, asked him to, and its only supposed to be for a couple weeks tops. But when he sees her for the first time in person he sees a woman, not a client and for him that's a big deal. Even though it's been five years after his wife has died he isn't ready to move on, and Gabby makes him want to be ready.
MY OPINION:
The heroine was supposed to be this strong confident young woman who learned to deal with the press and fans and learned a valuable lesson from her previous boyfriend, but in actuality she came off as being WAY too naive for anyone in the real world let alone in a story. She was constantly second guessing herself and what was happening to her even though she had supposedly been in the limelight since she was 17!
The hero was slightly better but only because the heroine was so bad, he was supposedly supposed to be stuck on his dead ex wife but in about 2pages in the book he gets over her!
Disregarding the basic plot outline the details the author filled in are way too unbelievable and so ridiculously naive that it takes away almost any enjoyment from reading the book. SPOILER AHEAD!!! Another huge downfall for this book is Miko, he's supposed to be one of the problems for the main characters, he's an insecurity for the hero, but the author only wrote him in about three times. He was supposed to be super controlling but in the end she says she loves someone else and then he just LEAVES! please explain how this fits into his character? It doesn't!
Overall the book doesn't really have any redeeming qualities, the sex scenes show no chemistry, the way the characters act towards each other doesn't change till basically the epilogue and the naivete of the heroine is beyond ridiculous and annoying!
ash
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