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King Family #2
The Bodyguard
Unrequited Love
I’m known around the country as the Cowboy Princess. A reality TV star who likes champagne, expensive shoes and cowboys.
It’s a lie. For me there has only been one cowboy… except he never wanted me.
Now stardom has attracted the wrong kind of attention. From a person I know is hunting me. My only choice is to go home to The King’s Land.
Home to Garrett, the man I could never forget. While I have always loved Garrett, I knew he could never return that love. My childish lies drove him away.
Now my life is at stake and I’m not lying about that. This time Garrett has to believe me.
Because I need a bodyguard…
I’m known around the country as the Cowboy Princess. A reality TV star who likes champagne, expensive shoes and cowboys.
It’s a lie. For me there has only been one cowboy… except he never wanted me.
Now stardom has attracted the wrong kind of attention. From a person I know is hunting me. My only choice is to go home to The King’s Land.
Home to Garrett, the man I could never forget. While I have always loved Garrett, I knew he could never return that love. My childish lies drove him away.
Now my life is at stake and I’m not lying about that. This time Garrett has to believe me.
Because I need a bodyguard…
210 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2018
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February 14, 2021
This book probably doesn't deserve the time I'm going to put into this review, but it was so awful, I can not just walk past it.
Apart from childish writing (which was okay when talking from the POV of teenage heroine, but annoying when she was 23) we got the worst hero you could imagine and a doormat heroine. Great combo, let me tell you!!
The guy was grade A jerk and not in a good way, where he redeemed himself of something, no. Our poor thing was stood up at the altar fave years ago (not really a spoiler, it was stated in the first book) by a woman he wasn't even sure he was in love with (according to his POV in the beginning), so now the wanker WAS. SO. BROKEN, he only fucked around and could never ever commit again.
The heroine? Oooh, she loved him since she was like 8 y.o. and because the poor jerk was so hurt, she forgave his verbal abuse and bullying in form of something lovely like "Brin, you are way too thin!! Eat the fucking burger I've ordered for you!!" Of course, she also ignored his mood swings and his hot-and-cold attitude, because he was so badly hurt (five fucking years ago) and because... love.
Oh, and you guys, he was so romantic!! Check this out:
There was also some casual body shaming (when the heroine was chubby as a teenager and again, when she was "way too thin" as an adult), which I'm not going to expand on, don't have the energy.
All in all, after loving The Tycoon, I really wanted to try this author as she wrote several books in the same universes as Julie Kriss and Molly O'Keefe - and boy was I slapped in the face.
Apart from childish writing (which was okay when talking from the POV of teenage heroine, but annoying when she was 23) we got the worst hero you could imagine and a doormat heroine. Great combo, let me tell you!!
The guy was grade A jerk and not in a good way, where he redeemed himself of something, no. Our poor thing was stood up at the altar fave years ago (not really a spoiler, it was stated in the first book) by a woman he wasn't even sure he was in love with (according to his POV in the beginning), so now the wanker WAS. SO. BROKEN, he only fucked around and could never ever commit again.
The heroine? Oooh, she loved him since she was like 8 y.o. and because the poor jerk was so hurt, she forgave his verbal abuse and bullying in form of something lovely like "Brin, you are way too thin!! Eat the fucking burger I've ordered for you!!" Of course, she also ignored his mood swings and his hot-and-cold attitude, because he was so badly hurt (five fucking years ago) and because... love.
Oh, and you guys, he was so romantic!! Check this out:
"I... don't think we should talk about this. You said you didn't want to fuck me."
I laughed. "No, sweetheart, I said I wasn't going to fuck you. Never said I didn't want to. But now I might be changing my mind."
Her gasp was almost erotic.
"I don't think you can do that."
"Why not? I need to fuck someone, and Brin, no one has ever needed a good fucking like you do."
- See what I mean?! Totally dreamy, right?!
There was also some casual body shaming (when the heroine was chubby as a teenager and again, when she was "way too thin" as an adult), which I'm not going to expand on, don't have the energy.
All in all, after loving The Tycoon, I really wanted to try this author as she wrote several books in the same universes as Julie Kriss and Molly O'Keefe - and boy was I slapped in the face.
February 14, 2020
Hmm.... I am bit disappointed with the second book of the King series. The book si short compares to the first book. The Bodyguard missing that twist on the plot. The stalker thing is really really weak plot. The chemistry between Garret and Sabrina, which in the beginning of the book is very promising childhood crush romance, falls short when the story progresses. I can not feel the chemistry between them.
What I do like about this book is Sabrina. She took a bully, the insecure, childhood and still she comes out strong. Too bad she can not be partnered with more strong hero character. Instead she got Garrett.
3 stars
What I do like about this book is Sabrina. She took a bully, the insecure, childhood and still she comes out strong. Too bad she can not be partnered with more strong hero character. Instead she got Garrett.
3 stars
May 15, 2022
Heroine in peril story with the added issue that her knight is the guy that’s she been crushing on forever.
Too bad he’s a jerk. He’s not a toxic, scary Anne Mather jerk or your big standard looming HP jerk, he’s a low energy, mansplainer that NEVER believes her despite the h twice steering him from cheating womenfolk.
They hook up and he still has little good to say. She’s too skinny (she was fat as a kid and bullied horribly, so yeah…go figure..she’s skinny now and determined to stay that way). He’s broken which is his Get Out of Jail Free card when she gets too happy being with him and his awesome penis. He throws her crush on him in her face as well as her supposedly made-up stalker in her face..because He. Is. Broken. Give me a break, wussy pants.
He’s a rotten Sheriff too as he actually meets the stalker and dismisses him.
Complaining aside, it was a fun read, and now I have to go back and read the first one, The Tycoon, to find out about the doomed engagement party everyone talks about.
Too bad he’s a jerk. He’s not a toxic, scary Anne Mather jerk or your big standard looming HP jerk, he’s a low energy, mansplainer that NEVER believes her despite the h twice steering him from cheating womenfolk.
They hook up and he still has little good to say. She’s too skinny (she was fat as a kid and bullied horribly, so yeah…go figure..she’s skinny now and determined to stay that way). He’s broken which is his Get Out of Jail Free card when she gets too happy being with him and his awesome penis. He throws her crush on him in her face as well as her supposedly made-up stalker in her face..because He. Is. Broken. Give me a break, wussy pants.
He’s a rotten Sheriff too as he actually meets the stalker and dismisses him.
Complaining aside, it was a fun read, and now I have to go back and read the first one, The Tycoon, to find out about the doomed engagement party everyone talks about.
November 12, 2020
I absolutely loved the first book in the series so I was looking forward to starting this one.
Sabrina is a complex character and we had been given hints about her history with Garrett and her life as a famous reality star.
This book just really didn't work for me.
I liked Sabrina although she is messed up by her weight issues and she has told a few lies to get Garrett's attention in the past but being young I could see this as realistic.
My issue was Garrett. He is understandably wary of Sabrina, knowing she had a crush on him and the lengths she went to to see him but he seems to forget how young she was.
He is also jaded as we knew from book 1 he had been jilted at the altar by his former fiance but he is so hardened by this experience.
He seems to forget how warped Sabrina's whole childhood would have affected her and makes no allowances for her.
I can't understand what she can see in this modern day Garrett.
Lots of books write the the Hero is hard on the heroine at the beginning of the book but he is so awful to Sabrina until about 80% of the book.
The stalker storyline was a good premise but ended up predictable, I just knew how it was going to turn out.
She forgives him very quickly too, after the way he's been I would have liked her to give him more time to show he's changed. More redemption.
For some who are sensitive to other woman drama, as he is older than her by a few years he has girlfriends and later a fiancé, while the heroine has her crush on him. There isn't a great deal of detail but she does witness some stuff under the bleaches.
There is some overlap in events with book 1, we see things from a different perspective, Sabrina not knowing the details of Veronica and Clayton. We also see how they are getting on.
There are hints about the next book.
Sabrina is a complex character and we had been given hints about her history with Garrett and her life as a famous reality star.
This book just really didn't work for me.
I liked Sabrina although she is messed up by her weight issues and she has told a few lies to get Garrett's attention in the past but being young I could see this as realistic.
My issue was Garrett. He is understandably wary of Sabrina, knowing she had a crush on him and the lengths she went to to see him but he seems to forget how young she was.
He is also jaded as we knew from book 1 he had been jilted at the altar by his former fiance but he is so hardened by this experience.
He seems to forget how warped Sabrina's whole childhood would have affected her and makes no allowances for her.
I can't understand what she can see in this modern day Garrett.
Lots of books write the the Hero is hard on the heroine at the beginning of the book but he is so awful to Sabrina until about 80% of the book.
The stalker storyline was a good premise but ended up predictable, I just knew how it was going to turn out.
She forgives him very quickly too, after the way he's been I would have liked her to give him more time to show he's changed. More redemption.
For some who are sensitive to other woman drama, as he is older than her by a few years he has girlfriends and later a fiancé, while the heroine has her crush on him. There isn't a great deal of detail but she does witness some stuff under the bleaches.
There is some overlap in events with book 1, we see things from a different perspective, Sabrina not knowing the details of Veronica and Clayton. We also see how they are getting on.
There are hints about the next book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 20, 2018
There’s a big scary stalker right? Like Sabrina is terrified and hides. But then he gets beat up and 2 hours later everyone is making jokes and having sex. Like ummmm aren’t we a little traumatized? No? Oh okay.
Sabrina let Garrett walk all over her. Like totally. But it’s okay bc she’s loved him since she was small.
I’m so over H being jerks and the h being like “oh it’s okay if you treat me like shit I’m just so in love with you I’m going to forgive you”
Sabrina let Garrett walk all over her. Like totally. But it’s okay bc she’s loved him since she was small.
I’m so over H being jerks and the h being like “oh it’s okay if you treat me like shit I’m just so in love with you I’m going to forgive you”
November 13, 2020
Predictable
Nothing extraordinary here. Predictable story that's been done to death, another tiresome Alpha male, a pushover heroine and explicit sex. And romances with babies are like a bucket of cold water.
Not impressed.
Nothing extraordinary here. Predictable story that's been done to death, another tiresome Alpha male, a pushover heroine and explicit sex. And romances with babies are like a bucket of cold water.
Not impressed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 30, 2023
This is the second book in the series and tells the story of Sabrina King, the youngest of the King siblings. She’s only a half-sister as her mother married the family patriarch very shortly after the death of the mother of Ronnie, the heroine of the first books. Sabrina’s mother is a real piece of work and her father isn’t any better. Sabrina has grown up overweight, unloved, unappreciated and bullied. Garrett Pine was her childhood champion. Several years older than her, he defended her from bullies and was her only real friend. She developed a huge crush on him and almost stalked him. When she spies him under some bleacher benches with another girl who – shall we say – has dalliances with other guys, she tells him that he’s too good for this other girl. He gets angry with her and says something cruel and she runs away. And as the book says she runs and runs and runs.
The next time we see her is several years later at her high school prom where she is the prom queen. She has lost all of her weight because of the running and seriously watching what she eats and has now become one of the “popular” girls. She’s in with the popular girls as she’s rich and (now) gorgeous, and also with those less popular girls since she has been there herself. Now all she wants is to see Garret again now that she is looking so different. He had left town after he graduated and only recently returned as a deputy sheriff. She is a bit of a trickster in trying to get his attention. And while she does manage to get it, and he can hardly believe this is the same overweight young girl that had an obvious crush on him, again there is an impediment in anything happening between them. He’s engaged.
Sabrina is once more devastated as for years she’s been convinced that when the time is right they will be together. She happens to catch his fiancé with another guy and when she tries telling Garrett, again he goes off on her, accusing her of all kinds of things. But this time she’s the one to leave.
She heads to Hollywood where she manages to score a reality show, one that follows her around on her frivolous life - think Kardasians. But she’s not the empty headed fluff piece she appears to be on her show. She has her show but a couple of things happen around the same time. She’s picked up a stalker who is escalating and her father dies so she heads back to her home town and once again is in Garrett’s orbit. But things are different this time. She’s still hurting from his accusations of being a liar and is most reluctant to tell him about her stalker; he’s been promoted to sheriff now. She doesn’t want to tell him anything about her life having been so badly hurt by him in the past.
But Garrett sees beyond the fluff piece everyone else seems to think she is. He knows how badly he has hurt her in the past and feels very badly that he did. He knows she’s always had a crush and he really misses it now that she’s giving him the cold shoulder. But although he’s very attracted to her and feels very protective, he doesn’t want any kind of relationship since his fiancé did him wrong all those years ago and left him at the alter.
Now, logically speaking, I shouldn’t enjoy this book as much as I did. In fact though, it’s my favourite of the series. Garrett really is an asshole to Sabrina but I adore her as a heroine so she makes up for what Garrett lacks. She’s so broken inside but covers things so well that she just melts my heart. Her pain is my pain and her vulnerability is so well written. When Garrett is so nasty to her when all she wants is to help him, it’s heartbreaking. We can see all her insecurities and why she hides so well. I sympathize with her completely as I had a crush when I was young that went on for years and years. And Garrett does feel bad for how he’s hurt her and not believed her in the past and is bound and determine to guard her from her stalker once Sabrina finally tells him the story.
As with the first book in the series, I’m glad I read this one. And it’s a new to me author so I have some back lists to check out.
The next time we see her is several years later at her high school prom where she is the prom queen. She has lost all of her weight because of the running and seriously watching what she eats and has now become one of the “popular” girls. She’s in with the popular girls as she’s rich and (now) gorgeous, and also with those less popular girls since she has been there herself. Now all she wants is to see Garret again now that she is looking so different. He had left town after he graduated and only recently returned as a deputy sheriff. She is a bit of a trickster in trying to get his attention. And while she does manage to get it, and he can hardly believe this is the same overweight young girl that had an obvious crush on him, again there is an impediment in anything happening between them. He’s engaged.
Sabrina is once more devastated as for years she’s been convinced that when the time is right they will be together. She happens to catch his fiancé with another guy and when she tries telling Garrett, again he goes off on her, accusing her of all kinds of things. But this time she’s the one to leave.
She heads to Hollywood where she manages to score a reality show, one that follows her around on her frivolous life - think Kardasians. But she’s not the empty headed fluff piece she appears to be on her show. She has her show but a couple of things happen around the same time. She’s picked up a stalker who is escalating and her father dies so she heads back to her home town and once again is in Garrett’s orbit. But things are different this time. She’s still hurting from his accusations of being a liar and is most reluctant to tell him about her stalker; he’s been promoted to sheriff now. She doesn’t want to tell him anything about her life having been so badly hurt by him in the past.
But Garrett sees beyond the fluff piece everyone else seems to think she is. He knows how badly he has hurt her in the past and feels very badly that he did. He knows she’s always had a crush and he really misses it now that she’s giving him the cold shoulder. But although he’s very attracted to her and feels very protective, he doesn’t want any kind of relationship since his fiancé did him wrong all those years ago and left him at the alter.
Now, logically speaking, I shouldn’t enjoy this book as much as I did. In fact though, it’s my favourite of the series. Garrett really is an asshole to Sabrina but I adore her as a heroine so she makes up for what Garrett lacks. She’s so broken inside but covers things so well that she just melts my heart. Her pain is my pain and her vulnerability is so well written. When Garrett is so nasty to her when all she wants is to help him, it’s heartbreaking. We can see all her insecurities and why she hides so well. I sympathize with her completely as I had a crush when I was young that went on for years and years. And Garrett does feel bad for how he’s hurt her and not believed her in the past and is bound and determine to guard her from her stalker once Sabrina finally tells him the story.
As with the first book in the series, I’m glad I read this one. And it’s a new to me author so I have some back lists to check out.
July 23, 2018
DNF @49%
Trying for suspense but failed. Too boring. Couldn't be bothered to finish it.
Trying for suspense but failed. Too boring. Couldn't be bothered to finish it.
November 25, 2018
Haaaaaated the hero with the fire of a thousand suns. The heroine was a little annoying too but still deserved better than the hero.
July 9, 2018
The Bodyguard by S. Doyle was an angst-filled story that was well-written and full of romance and suspense. Sabrina and Garrett were two individuals with troubled pasts who, against all odds, found what they needed within each other.
Picking up where The Tycoon left off, Garrett becomes Sabrina's protector as she tries to evade an obsessed stalker. Doyle wrote both of these characters so well, and I liked that she showed rather than told the events of their past. Sabrina was such a great character, with so many layers hidden beneath what she showed the world. While everyone perceived her to be shallow and one-dimensional, she was so much more than that. I truly felt her pain as a teenager, and the author did such a great job conveying her emotional turmoil both as a teen and later as an adult. Garrett's character was well-developed as well. He definitely let the pain of his past affect him, and that led to some intense conflict with Sabrina. For someone who was such a nice guy, he sure could be a jerk to her, and there were times when I wanted to yell at him for being so mean. Although I think that they needed to go through those battles in order to get to the root of their issues. As a pair, they balanced each other out well, and I really enjoyed the journey they took together.
The story was really well-written and evenly paced. The suspense elements were well done and so were the romantic ones. I loved seeing the members of the King family again, and I am really excited about Dylan's book. The authors of this series have given romance readers an entertaining and captivating saga with these books, and I am looking forward to continuing the King family's journey!
Picking up where The Tycoon left off, Garrett becomes Sabrina's protector as she tries to evade an obsessed stalker. Doyle wrote both of these characters so well, and I liked that she showed rather than told the events of their past. Sabrina was such a great character, with so many layers hidden beneath what she showed the world. While everyone perceived her to be shallow and one-dimensional, she was so much more than that. I truly felt her pain as a teenager, and the author did such a great job conveying her emotional turmoil both as a teen and later as an adult. Garrett's character was well-developed as well. He definitely let the pain of his past affect him, and that led to some intense conflict with Sabrina. For someone who was such a nice guy, he sure could be a jerk to her, and there were times when I wanted to yell at him for being so mean. Although I think that they needed to go through those battles in order to get to the root of their issues. As a pair, they balanced each other out well, and I really enjoyed the journey they took together.
The story was really well-written and evenly paced. The suspense elements were well done and so were the romantic ones. I loved seeing the members of the King family again, and I am really excited about Dylan's book. The authors of this series have given romance readers an entertaining and captivating saga with these books, and I am looking forward to continuing the King family's journey!
July 30, 2018
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I'm going to be honest. The Bodyguard is not a good book. The Tycoon got me invested, but this story was awful from the start and never did anything to make up for it. There's all sorts of problematic content in this story that's hurtful to read and since these stories are pretty much standalones, I would say to just skip this one entirely.
Trigger warnings for the book include fatmisia, homomisia, acemisia, bullying, stalking, kidnapping, attempted rape, and mentions of a cat who was murdered.
We saw mentions of Sabrina and Garret in book one, so I was looking forward to reading their story here. Sabrina is Veronica's youngest sister and worked in LA for a couple of years as a reality show star. She's gained popularity and is known as the Cowboy Princess. It's not really her, but she plays up a fake personality for the TV screens and has a ton of fans. Unfortunately, there's been a stalker after her the past few months and the messages have been escalating enough to worry her.
She decides that she wants to get away from the Hollywood life and go back home to Texas to see if she can get away from her stalker.
Sabrina has only ever been in love with one man her entire life - Garrett Pine. They grew up together as next door neighbors. Garrett used to be kind and sweet as a child. He was friendly to Sabrina, but never saw her as anything more. He had a tendency to date petite blonde girls, and Sabrina wasn't either of those things. But Sabrina had a plan for the long-game - a way to get Garrett to fall in love with her.
However. Garrett got engaged and Sabrina moved away. When Sabrina moves back to town years later, Garrett is still single because his fiancé had stood him up on their wedding day for another man and has never gotten over it.
The style of this book takes a little bit to get used to. The scenes are broken up by POV and by time (like "next day" or "a few days later"). It's fine if the book were broken up into two parts - past and present. But it's not, and it does get a little tiring to read after awhile.
I'm not really qualified to analyze the fat rep in this book, but Sabrina is said to be overweight when she was younger and this book reinforces the thinking that being skinny is better. From her POV, being skinny and not eating the foods she enjoys, she's able to get more opportunities than other people. She says quite a few times that she's not just skinny now, but "TV skinny". She's comfortable in her body now, but it seems a little toxic to say that being skinny is better compared to the weight she was as a child because after losing weight, she became the popular girl in school, won prom queen, and it's what got her the casting in her reality show.
Garrett is supposed to be the guy who doesn't care about Sabrina's weight, but the story only mentions that he's attracted to her after she loses weight. Sure, she's older by now as well, but then there's this whole thing where he keeps trying to force her to eat more and THAT'S uncomfortable to witness too. Sabrina's weight is brought up constantly in this story as a way to make her feel bad about herself even though it seems like she's comfortable with her body. It's like the story is trying to show that Garrett could love Sabrina no matter how much she weighs, but it really doesn't come across that way.
This book does contain acemismic rhetoric that made me very uncomfortable to read as an ace reader. Sabrina tells Garrett straight up that she doesn’t like sex and almost immediately, he questions her on why that was and gets it into his head that he needs to convince her to have sex with him because he’ll make her ~realize what she’s “missing out on”. It's awful and Sabrina should have dumped him on the spot.
I understand the author probably didn’t mean for this to come across as acemismic, but it is. It hurts to read this kind of content in a book with no warning about it beforehand and Sabrina's feelings towards sex is only used as a way to say that her past relationships were terrible and Garrett has always been THE ONE. IF the story had said Sabrina was gray ace or demi, that would have been one thing, but that's not what happened here.
Garrett's deal is that he's thirty and he also thought that he would have a family and kids by now. So, I would say it's gross to read his sex scenes with Sabrina because he wants nothing more than for her to be pregnant and carry his babies. That's also a complaint I have about book one, because I'm not here for guys being gross about pregnancy and completely pushing their agenda on women. Here are two examples.
Example #1
Example #2
Even without these issues, there's the main storyline that's not much better. Sabrina has been known to lie once or twice to Garrett to get his attention before, but there were two times where Sabrina told him that his girlfriend and fiancé had been cheating on him and he refused to listen. Garrett realized after that Sabrina was telling the truth both times. But ever since, Garrett just assumes that Sabrina fabricates stories to get in his pants. Even at the 90% mark he's still being awful to Sabrina. There's no big apologetic moment. There's no groveling. He wants the girl, so he gets her? Garrett is not my favorite. Not by a long shot. Sabrina deserves better.
I liked Clayton in The Tycoon (Sabrina's future brother-in-law), but Clayton in this book was a bit of an asshole. Sabrina wanted nothing to do with Garrett and went to hide in Clayton and Veronica's place in Dallas. For all Clayton loves Veronica and wants to take care of her sisters in the first book, and knows that Sabrina wants nothing to do with Garrett at the moment, HE TELLS GARRETT EXACTLY HOW TO FIND HER. His reasoning is that he waited years for Veronica and Garrett shouldn't have to do the same. But did you miss the part where Sabrina doesn't want to see Garrett? Consent sure doesn't seem like a thing and alpha males got to stick together and all that apparently. Because no, Clayton. That was an asshole move.
Overall, this book just didn't do it for me. And it's incredibly disappointing since I liked the first book and hadn't read anything by S. Doyle before. I will give book three, The Bastard, a shot because it is written by a different author. So, hopefully Dylan's story goes a little bit better for me.
***I was provided an ARC in exchange for an honest review***
I'm going to be honest. The Bodyguard is not a good book. The Tycoon got me invested, but this story was awful from the start and never did anything to make up for it. There's all sorts of problematic content in this story that's hurtful to read and since these stories are pretty much standalones, I would say to just skip this one entirely.
Trigger warnings for the book include fatmisia, homomisia, acemisia, bullying, stalking, kidnapping, attempted rape, and mentions of a cat who was murdered.
We saw mentions of Sabrina and Garret in book one, so I was looking forward to reading their story here. Sabrina is Veronica's youngest sister and worked in LA for a couple of years as a reality show star. She's gained popularity and is known as the Cowboy Princess. It's not really her, but she plays up a fake personality for the TV screens and has a ton of fans. Unfortunately, there's been a stalker after her the past few months and the messages have been escalating enough to worry her.
She decides that she wants to get away from the Hollywood life and go back home to Texas to see if she can get away from her stalker.
Sabrina has only ever been in love with one man her entire life - Garrett Pine. They grew up together as next door neighbors. Garrett used to be kind and sweet as a child. He was friendly to Sabrina, but never saw her as anything more. He had a tendency to date petite blonde girls, and Sabrina wasn't either of those things. But Sabrina had a plan for the long-game - a way to get Garrett to fall in love with her.
However. Garrett got engaged and Sabrina moved away. When Sabrina moves back to town years later, Garrett is still single because his fiancé had stood him up on their wedding day for another man and has never gotten over it.
The style of this book takes a little bit to get used to. The scenes are broken up by POV and by time (like "next day" or "a few days later"). It's fine if the book were broken up into two parts - past and present. But it's not, and it does get a little tiring to read after awhile.
I'm not really qualified to analyze the fat rep in this book, but Sabrina is said to be overweight when she was younger and this book reinforces the thinking that being skinny is better. From her POV, being skinny and not eating the foods she enjoys, she's able to get more opportunities than other people. She says quite a few times that she's not just skinny now, but "TV skinny". She's comfortable in her body now, but it seems a little toxic to say that being skinny is better compared to the weight she was as a child because after losing weight, she became the popular girl in school, won prom queen, and it's what got her the casting in her reality show.
Garrett is supposed to be the guy who doesn't care about Sabrina's weight, but the story only mentions that he's attracted to her after she loses weight. Sure, she's older by now as well, but then there's this whole thing where he keeps trying to force her to eat more and THAT'S uncomfortable to witness too. Sabrina's weight is brought up constantly in this story as a way to make her feel bad about herself even though it seems like she's comfortable with her body. It's like the story is trying to show that Garrett could love Sabrina no matter how much she weighs, but it really doesn't come across that way.
This book does contain acemismic rhetoric that made me very uncomfortable to read as an ace reader. Sabrina tells Garrett straight up that she doesn’t like sex and almost immediately, he questions her on why that was and gets it into his head that he needs to convince her to have sex with him because he’ll make her ~realize what she’s “missing out on”. It's awful and Sabrina should have dumped him on the spot.
Brin's [Sabrina] problem with sex wasn't the intimacy. [...] It was wrong, maybe, to take advantage of those feelings she used to have for me, but I didn't care. I wanted her too much.
[...]
Good, I thought savagely. Let her be a little afraid of how I make her feel. If anything, i would only pique her curiosity.
I understand the author probably didn’t mean for this to come across as acemismic, but it is. It hurts to read this kind of content in a book with no warning about it beforehand and Sabrina's feelings towards sex is only used as a way to say that her past relationships were terrible and Garrett has always been THE ONE. IF the story had said Sabrina was gray ace or demi, that would have been one thing, but that's not what happened here.
Garrett's deal is that he's thirty and he also thought that he would have a family and kids by now. So, I would say it's gross to read his sex scenes with Sabrina because he wants nothing more than for her to be pregnant and carry his babies. That's also a complaint I have about book one, because I'm not here for guys being gross about pregnancy and completely pushing their agenda on women. Here are two examples.
Example #1
What was this? This feeling that had basically been with me all day. And there, seeing my cum drip out of her body I realized what it was.
It was fucking hope.
Example #2
"I'm here because when I come inside of you, do you know what I think about? What I have thought about each time I did it? That maybe you forgot to take your pill that day. Or that you weren't on any birth control at all. That I was filling you with myself so that we could make a baby together. That I could watch you get round with my son or daughter inside you. Every time."
Even without these issues, there's the main storyline that's not much better. Sabrina has been known to lie once or twice to Garrett to get his attention before, but there were two times where Sabrina told him that his girlfriend and fiancé had been cheating on him and he refused to listen. Garrett realized after that Sabrina was telling the truth both times. But ever since, Garrett just assumes that Sabrina fabricates stories to get in his pants. Even at the 90% mark he's still being awful to Sabrina. There's no big apologetic moment. There's no groveling. He wants the girl, so he gets her? Garrett is not my favorite. Not by a long shot. Sabrina deserves better.
I liked Clayton in The Tycoon (Sabrina's future brother-in-law), but Clayton in this book was a bit of an asshole. Sabrina wanted nothing to do with Garrett and went to hide in Clayton and Veronica's place in Dallas. For all Clayton loves Veronica and wants to take care of her sisters in the first book, and knows that Sabrina wants nothing to do with Garrett at the moment, HE TELLS GARRETT EXACTLY HOW TO FIND HER. His reasoning is that he waited years for Veronica and Garrett shouldn't have to do the same. But did you miss the part where Sabrina doesn't want to see Garrett? Consent sure doesn't seem like a thing and alpha males got to stick together and all that apparently. Because no, Clayton. That was an asshole move.
Overall, this book just didn't do it for me. And it's incredibly disappointing since I liked the first book and hadn't read anything by S. Doyle before. I will give book three, The Bastard, a shot because it is written by a different author. So, hopefully Dylan's story goes a little bit better for me.
***I was provided an ARC in exchange for an honest review***
July 26, 2018
Again I am so confused by the low ratings on the books in this series. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one and I may have enjoyed this one even more. That's saying something because Sabrina, or Brin as Garrett likes to call her came off as a spoiled little tart in the first book. She was much more likable in this one. I even got angry with Garrett a couple of times because of a lie she told him as a teenager he continued to call her a liar the entire book. Other than that I loved Garrett too. It was also great seeing the first couple, Veronica and Clayton with a cameo in this installment. I am not sure what you call this series, it isn't quite a serial but they are a little shorter than full-sized novels. It is also weird to me that the first one had a different author than the second. I'm unsure if there was be a different author on Dylan's book which is next, or if it will be one of the previous two writers. I do know I love this series. It kept me turning pages from beginning to end. I just don't get these low ratings. I am an avid reader and usually my rating lines up pretty close to the average on each book. I am wondering if I am missing something because the King family has me enthralled! If I had one complaint it would be the cover. The cover fits great in with the other covers for the series. The problem is that the cover doesn't match the character what so ever. Garrett never dressed like that and he doesn't fit the description. I am not that much of a cover whore so I wouldn't take anything away from the rating but it is something that nags at me. If I were not reading kindle books and had real covers to look at on a shelf I would be pissed. Otherwise it doesn't really matter much.
January 6, 2023
I liked it enough to finish but have so many thoughts. I read this cause it’s an audiobook on Scribd and I tried another book from the author and liked it.
1. The heroine is “fat” as a child. She eats comfort foods and doesn’t exercise. When she is rejected by her childhood crush, she ends up running and losing all of her weight and having amazing willpower so she only eats rabbit food. While I liked that the hero empowers her as a child to own her own shit and stand up for herself, that’s about the best part of the book for the hero. Late in the book he says to not call herself fat (as if it’s a pejorative). Lots of fat shaming early in the book. Even tho the hero treats her well when she’s fat, I get the impression that he didn’t see her as fat rather than he values fat people.
2. The hero is an asshole. He doesn’t believe the heroine over and over again. And ends up hurting her towards the end by saying he doesn’t believe her yet again.
3. I HATE negative motivation in romance books. It’s so exhausting. The hero has been hurt and so has decided he’s just going to “fuck women once and be done with them”. And he uses that kind of language to the heroine. Of course he immediately falls in love with her after they have sex but he’s so emotionally stunted he can’t say it and instead treats her like garbage.
4. The heroine goes from having a personality in childhood to being all about shoes and stupid crap as a grown up. She leans into some hurtful words of the hero (I don’t understand the background of them because it seems like there’s some history that might have been in the prior book I didn’t read) and acts like a beautiful airhead.
5. Insufficient groveling.
6. The heroine isn’t a virgin but she’s never enjoyed sex. The hero (after saying he fucks and forgets women) tells her he “needs to give her an orgasm” for her own good.
7. The heroine goes after his junk while he’s still asleep. He ends up enjoying himself but she definitely didn’t get consent first.
1. The heroine is “fat” as a child. She eats comfort foods and doesn’t exercise. When she is rejected by her childhood crush, she ends up running and losing all of her weight and having amazing willpower so she only eats rabbit food. While I liked that the hero empowers her as a child to own her own shit and stand up for herself, that’s about the best part of the book for the hero. Late in the book he says to not call herself fat (as if it’s a pejorative). Lots of fat shaming early in the book. Even tho the hero treats her well when she’s fat, I get the impression that he didn’t see her as fat rather than he values fat people.
2. The hero is an asshole. He doesn’t believe the heroine over and over again. And ends up hurting her towards the end by saying he doesn’t believe her yet again.
3. I HATE negative motivation in romance books. It’s so exhausting. The hero has been hurt and so has decided he’s just going to “fuck women once and be done with them”. And he uses that kind of language to the heroine. Of course he immediately falls in love with her after they have sex but he’s so emotionally stunted he can’t say it and instead treats her like garbage.
4. The heroine goes from having a personality in childhood to being all about shoes and stupid crap as a grown up. She leans into some hurtful words of the hero (I don’t understand the background of them because it seems like there’s some history that might have been in the prior book I didn’t read) and acts like a beautiful airhead.
5. Insufficient groveling.
6. The heroine isn’t a virgin but she’s never enjoyed sex. The hero (after saying he fucks and forgets women) tells her he “needs to give her an orgasm” for her own good.
7. The heroine goes after his junk while he’s still asleep. He ends up enjoying himself but she definitely didn’t get consent first.
January 21, 2024
Where do I even start with this review? I wasn't a huge fan of the first book, but decided to keep this series on my TBR because the next two were written by different authors. So maybe I would like the next ones was my thoughts. After reading this, I'm regretting that decision.
I hate to be mean, but man this was not good. The writing in this was rough for me. At first, I was ok with it. I thought this is starting out good. And very quickly it wasn't. This was so immature and cliche? Stereotypical? I'm not sure what word to use, but I literally laughed out loud at the absurdity.
We are supposed to believe that Sabrina is a smart individual but she's the girl who cried wolf with the boy she liked. Then she's the stereotypical rich girl who doesn't eat and has to be skinny (because skinny is power right, lol). She does a reality show that has her screaming and freaking out about discount clothes. Are you picking up on the ridiculousness??
Garrett wasn't much better either. I didn't mind the alpha. He was a jerk but I got it he was wronged. But seriously, if you're going for the alpha character, he should've gotten over his shit WAY sooner. It was literally the last chapter.
I don't DNF books and I wanted to with this one. And now I'm back to my dilemma. Do I just wash this series off my list? Or give the next author on the list a chance to redeem it for me? That's the question of the day.
I hate to be mean, but man this was not good. The writing in this was rough for me. At first, I was ok with it. I thought this is starting out good. And very quickly it wasn't. This was so immature and cliche? Stereotypical? I'm not sure what word to use, but I literally laughed out loud at the absurdity.
We are supposed to believe that Sabrina is a smart individual but she's the girl who cried wolf with the boy she liked. Then she's the stereotypical rich girl who doesn't eat and has to be skinny (because skinny is power right, lol). She does a reality show that has her screaming and freaking out about discount clothes. Are you picking up on the ridiculousness??
Garrett wasn't much better either. I didn't mind the alpha. He was a jerk but I got it he was wronged. But seriously, if you're going for the alpha character, he should've gotten over his shit WAY sooner. It was literally the last chapter.
I don't DNF books and I wanted to with this one. And now I'm back to my dilemma. Do I just wash this series off my list? Or give the next author on the list a chance to redeem it for me? That's the question of the day.
July 31, 2022
h has crush to the H since she was a freshman, he was a senior.
h lied or did things to make the H noticed her
H was engaged
h saw the H’s fiancee was cheating on him
h told the H, he didn’t believed her.
h left the town to move on.
H got stood up at the Altar and that broke him, vows to never love again.
5 years after, the h is a celebrity and she got a stalker, she went back to her hometown
5 years after, the H is the town sheriff and he told the h he will be his bodyguard.
There’s more to this story, I enjoy S. Doyle’s writing about unrequited love. I would want more but I know the author wrote short books, more groveling from the Hero and add more intense scenes, it’ll be perfect. It’s best to read the first book from this series which is The Tycoon, because there are characters that appear here that are important to the story. Overall, I enjoyed this book.
h lied or did things to make the H noticed her
H was engaged
h saw the H’s fiancee was cheating on him
h told the H, he didn’t believed her.
h left the town to move on.
H got stood up at the Altar and that broke him, vows to never love again.
5 years after, the h is a celebrity and she got a stalker, she went back to her hometown
5 years after, the H is the town sheriff and he told the h he will be his bodyguard.
There’s more to this story, I enjoy S. Doyle’s writing about unrequited love. I would want more but I know the author wrote short books, more groveling from the Hero and add more intense scenes, it’ll be perfect. It’s best to read the first book from this series which is The Tycoon, because there are characters that appear here that are important to the story. Overall, I enjoyed this book.
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March 25, 2023
Not a hero
I have several issues with this book. First, I'm not fond of series by multiple authors because the books are written in different styles and you never know what you're going to get from one to the next. Second, I'm not fond of "I've been in love with you since I was a teenager and I still am" because they should have grown and changed in the ensuing years apart. Third, I'm not fond of stories that include the pre teen and teen parts of their lives as first person because I don't read YA books for a reason. And lastly, this guy is nuts and I don't just mean her stalker. He's been a big fish in a little pond his whole life, basks in Sabrina's hero worship, gets his pride wounded when his cheating fiance leaves him high and dry, and now he's the love 'em and leave 'em type, which he makes clear to her. She tells a couple of innocent fibs to get his attention when she's barely eighteen years old, and suddenly he brands her as an attention seeking liar---even though several of the things he thought were lies turned out to be true--remember the cheating fiance? He tells her and himself that he doesn't want her, but he doesn't want anyone else to have her. He weight shames her--telling someone they're too thin and pushing food on them is just as much weight shaming as doing the opposite to an overweight person. "I want to kiss you, but I won't. I know you want me to, though. You've been mine since you were eleven, but I don't want you. I just want to have sex, but I don't want you, but no one else can have you, either." Then when he decides that wait, yes, I do want you, her future brother in law rats her out and she's supposed to fall at his feet. Oh wait, she does fall at his feet! What's wrong with these women?? Cut these guys loose and find someone who isn't wishy washy and hung up on what HE wants!
I have several issues with this book. First, I'm not fond of series by multiple authors because the books are written in different styles and you never know what you're going to get from one to the next. Second, I'm not fond of "I've been in love with you since I was a teenager and I still am" because they should have grown and changed in the ensuing years apart. Third, I'm not fond of stories that include the pre teen and teen parts of their lives as first person because I don't read YA books for a reason. And lastly, this guy is nuts and I don't just mean her stalker. He's been a big fish in a little pond his whole life, basks in Sabrina's hero worship, gets his pride wounded when his cheating fiance leaves him high and dry, and now he's the love 'em and leave 'em type, which he makes clear to her. She tells a couple of innocent fibs to get his attention when she's barely eighteen years old, and suddenly he brands her as an attention seeking liar---even though several of the things he thought were lies turned out to be true--remember the cheating fiance? He tells her and himself that he doesn't want her, but he doesn't want anyone else to have her. He weight shames her--telling someone they're too thin and pushing food on them is just as much weight shaming as doing the opposite to an overweight person. "I want to kiss you, but I won't. I know you want me to, though. You've been mine since you were eleven, but I don't want you. I just want to have sex, but I don't want you, but no one else can have you, either." Then when he decides that wait, yes, I do want you, her future brother in law rats her out and she's supposed to fall at his feet. Oh wait, she does fall at his feet! What's wrong with these women?? Cut these guys loose and find someone who isn't wishy washy and hung up on what HE wants!
May 18, 2021
This is the second book in this series. While you can read each book alone I would highly suggest reading each book so you understand why things happen as they do. In this book, Sabrina King is back home in Texas and she needs to be open with Garrett Pine her long-ago crush if anything is ever going to come out right in the end. BUT for that to happen we as readers get to see all the mess Sabrina does as a teenager and why she does it. We also see all the going on and know that life is not what it seems either. So much I want to say but can't STORYLINE... I am off to read the next book in this saga and can not wait to see what our author takes us.
January 8, 2020
I discovered this author recently and have been binge reading everything since. I really loved this one. It’s got plenty of history, loads of emotions, lots of laughs and a little action. Sabrina & Garrett definitely have to work for their HEA. Such a great read.
July 30, 2018
2.5*
As much as I loved Clayton, I hated Garrett. The push and pull. He was not worthy of Sabrina, who was pretty awesome.
As much as I loved Clayton, I hated Garrett. The push and pull. He was not worthy of Sabrina, who was pretty awesome.
July 24, 2022
The Bodyguard is book 2 in the King Family Saga. I am reading this series in order I do think that this book can be read as a standalone. The books are interconnected but each book has its own HEA.
This is the story of youngest sister Sabrina and Garret the small-town Sheriff.
The book does move across multiple years. The book was short and just did not live up to everything I wanted from it. It was ok. The Stalker component needed more development. Garrett was an ass and a hard to love character. Coming off book 1 this book did not live up to my expectations. I do feel like there was an immaturity to both characters and neither showed great growth. I spent a lot of time wanting to smack Garrett.
I do think you can skip this story. It does not move the overarching storyline much that you would be lost going into book3. I am kind of bummed by this story. Also, the book was filled with errors and looks as if it was not proof read. Overall, just ok not remarkable at all.
CW: Fat phobia, stalker kidnapping
This is the story of youngest sister Sabrina and Garret the small-town Sheriff.
The book does move across multiple years. The book was short and just did not live up to everything I wanted from it. It was ok. The Stalker component needed more development. Garrett was an ass and a hard to love character. Coming off book 1 this book did not live up to my expectations. I do feel like there was an immaturity to both characters and neither showed great growth. I spent a lot of time wanting to smack Garrett.
I do think you can skip this story. It does not move the overarching storyline much that you would be lost going into book3. I am kind of bummed by this story. Also, the book was filled with errors and looks as if it was not proof read. Overall, just ok not remarkable at all.
CW: Fat phobia, stalker kidnapping
July 16, 2018
Awesome
This is a fantastic read but I must say the cover in no way represents the characters in this story. Garrett is the sheriff of a small Texas town. Sabrina is one of the King sisters who has returned to Dusty Creek after the death of their father. Sabrina has been in LA starting in her reality show. Now she has to rely on her teen crush and the current sheriff to protect her from a stalker that has followed her from LA.
This is the second book in the King family series. While you could read this one standalone I highly recommend the entire series.
This is a fantastic read but I must say the cover in no way represents the characters in this story. Garrett is the sheriff of a small Texas town. Sabrina is one of the King sisters who has returned to Dusty Creek after the death of their father. Sabrina has been in LA starting in her reality show. Now she has to rely on her teen crush and the current sheriff to protect her from a stalker that has followed her from LA.
This is the second book in the King family series. While you could read this one standalone I highly recommend the entire series.
March 21, 2019
Sabrina and Garrett
Eight years old she fell in love with neighbor Garrett. She still loved him high school when he defended her from fat bullying. When he was engaged she warned him about his fiancé and he got mad.
She left town and became TV famous trying to forget Garrett. She was forced to head home when a stocker threatened her, but once again Garrett didn’t believe her.
Enjoyable story except that Sabrina always forgave Garrett too easily.
Eight years old she fell in love with neighbor Garrett. She still loved him high school when he defended her from fat bullying. When he was engaged she warned him about his fiancé and he got mad.
She left town and became TV famous trying to forget Garrett. She was forced to head home when a stocker threatened her, but once again Garrett didn’t believe her.
Enjoyable story except that Sabrina always forgave Garrett too easily.
February 8, 2020
Liked it until the end. The h was so such a push over she didn’t even try to make him work for her. He says nasty shit next thing I love you then she says I love you too. Have loved all my life. Have some dignity girl.
Unlike other GR reader I liked the H, he was sweet to her and protected her but h was a doormat with no self respect, plays games for his attention and is hurt when he calls her out on it.
Lost it’s rating after she was kidnapped
Unlike other GR reader I liked the H, he was sweet to her and protected her but h was a doormat with no self respect, plays games for his attention and is hurt when he calls her out on it.
Lost it’s rating after she was kidnapped
January 16, 2020
Not as interesting as THE TYCOON. This story revolves around Sabrina, the youngest King sister and why she, too, hated Hank King, her horrible father.
Sabrina discovers she has a stalker. However, Sheriff Garrett doesn't believe her because she's told him so many lies to get his attention. Now he's about done with her.
Sabrina discovers she has a stalker. However, Sheriff Garrett doesn't believe her because she's told him so many lies to get his attention. Now he's about done with her.
July 23, 2018
Rating 4.5 Stars.
It’s an interesting approach to have three authors each write one book in the series. The really good news is the books flowed together really well in their King Family Series. S Doyle’s The Bodyguard has the same tone, pacing and character development as M. O’Keefe’s The Tycoon.
I enjoyed The Bodyguard. In the first book, I was fascinated by the interactions between Sabrina and Garrett. The hints at their past and their attraction were titillating.
I think my favorite part and what touched my heart was Sabrina’s fat kid mind in her hot as heck body. She may have toned and primped herself into the Cowboy Princess but inside she’s still the bullied, heavy girl in love with her protector, Garrett. Garrett’s a bit confused initially. He never really saw Sabrina as a potential date but he’s definitely interested now. He’s perhaps too eager to be her bodyguard when a fan’s stalking becomes too frightening but he’s right that no one can protect her like he can.
I like the interaction between these two. I like who they’ve become and who they are together. It’s frustrating as can be that Sabrina’s father has put his daughters in such peril financially when he left his fortune to their half-brother or her sister Veronica’s ex-fiancé.
This story has so much for the reader. A Hollywood star who’s not what she seems, a valiant, sexy sheriff, money issues, finding one’s future and a deadly stalker or is there? Garrett isn’t really even sure Sabrina didn’t make the stalker up! All together gripping!
The Bodyguard was one of those books I devoured as quickly as possible. S Doyle did a great job with the book and with making the second books flow perfectly with the first.
It’s an interesting approach to have three authors each write one book in the series. The really good news is the books flowed together really well in their King Family Series. S Doyle’s The Bodyguard has the same tone, pacing and character development as M. O’Keefe’s The Tycoon.
I enjoyed The Bodyguard. In the first book, I was fascinated by the interactions between Sabrina and Garrett. The hints at their past and their attraction were titillating.
I think my favorite part and what touched my heart was Sabrina’s fat kid mind in her hot as heck body. She may have toned and primped herself into the Cowboy Princess but inside she’s still the bullied, heavy girl in love with her protector, Garrett. Garrett’s a bit confused initially. He never really saw Sabrina as a potential date but he’s definitely interested now. He’s perhaps too eager to be her bodyguard when a fan’s stalking becomes too frightening but he’s right that no one can protect her like he can.
I like the interaction between these two. I like who they’ve become and who they are together. It’s frustrating as can be that Sabrina’s father has put his daughters in such peril financially when he left his fortune to their half-brother or her sister Veronica’s ex-fiancé.
This story has so much for the reader. A Hollywood star who’s not what she seems, a valiant, sexy sheriff, money issues, finding one’s future and a deadly stalker or is there? Garrett isn’t really even sure Sabrina didn’t make the stalker up! All together gripping!
The Bodyguard was one of those books I devoured as quickly as possible. S Doyle did a great job with the book and with making the second books flow perfectly with the first.
March 6, 2022
cute but problematic…
I overall liked this story but I couldn’t help but feel the heroine had major unresolved issues and the hero was a complete a-hole to her and didn’t deserve her at all. The premise is that Sabrina King has always been the dumb, pretty King sister but now that she has a stalker, she returns home to hide. Enter her lifelong crush, Sheriff, Garrett, who is also attracted but has sworn off love after being abandoned at the altar. However, it’s going to be hard to hold back when they’re forced into close proximity when he agrees to become Sabrina’s bodyguard.
The main issue I had with this is that though Garrett had his moments when he could be sweet, he often tore the heroine down verbally and this knowing she was a people-pleaser with a lot of emotional damage from her upbringing. It just came across as really abusive to me and because of the heroine’s issues, I just found her to willing to forgive and not stand up for herself. I would also flag this book for unresolved fatphobia and eating disorders, if you might be at all sensitive, this might be one to consider avoiding. I like the series but so far the heroes have been very much on the a-hole spectrum, this one more than Book 1.
I overall liked this story but I couldn’t help but feel the heroine had major unresolved issues and the hero was a complete a-hole to her and didn’t deserve her at all. The premise is that Sabrina King has always been the dumb, pretty King sister but now that she has a stalker, she returns home to hide. Enter her lifelong crush, Sheriff, Garrett, who is also attracted but has sworn off love after being abandoned at the altar. However, it’s going to be hard to hold back when they’re forced into close proximity when he agrees to become Sabrina’s bodyguard.
The main issue I had with this is that though Garrett had his moments when he could be sweet, he often tore the heroine down verbally and this knowing she was a people-pleaser with a lot of emotional damage from her upbringing. It just came across as really abusive to me and because of the heroine’s issues, I just found her to willing to forgive and not stand up for herself. I would also flag this book for unresolved fatphobia and eating disorders, if you might be at all sensitive, this might be one to consider avoiding. I like the series but so far the heroes have been very much on the a-hole spectrum, this one more than Book 1.
February 3, 2023
Insufferable. I went in blind & didn’t know Garrett was the hero. I kept thinking anytime now the real hero will come & this will be a love triangle story. Nope. Just bad.
June 4, 2024
I love cowboys, not so much cow girls. Epilogues should be made illegal. Hate the obsessive girls 😑 she was one of the worst I’ve read it’s actually embarrassing. Felt bad for the sherif tho 😞 wouldn’t call him a body guard 😭
July 22, 2018
I loved this book. Garrett tried to resist but in the end needed Sabrina. This is such a great series. I cannot wait for all the characters.
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