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    Bodyguard
    Bodyguard
    Bodyguard
    Audiobook8 hours

    Bodyguard

    Written by CD Reiss

    Narrated by Joe Arden and CJ Bloom

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    About this audiobook

    From New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss: Protecting a celebrity in Hollywood isn’t easy, but protecting Emily could break his heart.

    As a world-class dancer at the height of her career, Emily enjoys all the perks of fame—the parties, the glamour, the tours—but they’ve also attracted the attention of a dangerous ex-boyfriend hell-bent on getting her back.

    Enter Carter Kincaid, a bodyguard so crushingly sexy he takes her breath away.

    Carter’s the best in the business, and Emily is—professionally speaking—off-limits. But when it comes to stirring his desires, she’s making all the right moves. What’s happening between them is so hot it could get both of them burned. As Emily’s past gets closer, Carter is willing to break every rule of the job to save her. But letting Emily into his life also means letting her in on the secrets of his own past. For these two, falling in love could be the greatest risk of all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781543658101
    Bodyguard
    Author

    CD Reiss

    CD Reiss is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author. Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California, to get her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere, but it did embed TV story structure well enough in her head for her to take a big risk on a TV-inspired erotic series called Songs of Submission. It’s about a kinky billionaire hung up on his ex-wife; an ingénue singer with a wisecracking mouth; and art, music, and sin in the city of Los Angeles. Critics have dubbed the books “poetic,” “literary,” and “hauntingly atmospheric,” which is flattering enough for her to put it in a bio, but embarrassing enough for her not to tell her husband, or he might think she’s some sort of braggart who’s too good to give the toilets a once-over every couple of weeks. If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.

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    • 5/5
      After reading Bombshell, I was excited to read Bodyguard. Narration by Joe Arden and CJ Bloom was great! Another strong romance, Bodyguard includes elements of suspense. I’m coming to appreciate CD Reiss’ character development and attention to detail in crafting an engaging story. Both books in the Hollywood series have unique opening scenes that captured my attention and established a mind set for what follows. I found myself thinking about the first chapter in both books long after they were finished. I highly recommend this series!
    • 4/5
      Book 2..Bodyguard by CD Reiss was a captivating rom com with a bit of suspense. Joe Arden gave a very realistic- sounding voice to male and female characters. I cannot stand narrator CJ Bloom

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    • 2/5
      I like Leena Lehtolainen's Maria Kallio series, so when I had gone through all of that series that's available in English, I decided to give another Lehtolainen series a try. For me, this did not work -- I got about a third of the way through the book, and abandoned it. I did not like the characters, notably the central character, and I didn't understand her at all. Had I had the patience to stick with it, I probably would have understood her some by the end of the book, but the game was decidedly not worth the candle. It's an interesting notion, and takes one into an unusual world, but it's not really one I want to visit.Comment
    • 4/5
      Leena Lehtolainen is best known for her award-winning series of detective novels featuring Mario Kallio. "The Bodyguard" introduces Hilja Ilveskero. The story begins when Hilja's employer, Anita Nuutinen, is murdered within hours of Hilja's angry resignation. Of course now everyone believes that Hilja was bought off by Anita's enemies or that she is the murderer.Hilja starts to backtrack Anita's life and is unexpectedly hired by Helene Lehmusvuo, one of Anita's friends, an important politician who is being threatened by her ex-husband and some Russians who want her to soften her stance on Finland's relationship with Russian. She also meets a mysterious and dangerous man… dangerous in several ways.The story moves along at a lively pace. It is refreshing that Hilja is not a superhero. She is competent at her work and we are impressed with her professionalism. She works hard to keep her clients safe but she is human and believable.The translation from Finnish has been done by Jenni Salmi. It is gracefully done, for the most part, although I have some reservations about Ms Salmi's decision to use miles and cups instead of kilometers and decalitres. There are a couple of odd slips in the text, but the only real blunder I noticed was when Hilja pays for a hotel room with money she did not have 3 pages earlier.I received a review copy of "The Bodyguard" by Leena Lehtolainen (AmazonCrossing) through NetGalley.com.
    • 2/5
      The Bodyguard (The Bodyguard series Book 1) by Leena Lehtolainen I am not sure, if it is the translation from Finnish to English that is making this book so difficult for me to read and enjoy, or if it just not that well written in the first place. I normally love books that are set (well at least to me) in exotic places, but this book is not doing it for me. This book is written in first person and for a mystery, that is normally a very good thing, but getting and staying inside of Hilja Ilveskero’s head is a creepy thing for me. She has the personality of a 14-year-old sexual predator with an obsession for lynx’s. Yes, you heard me correctly – the part of the first chapter is spent on this; as are many other parts of many other chapters. As I got to the 75% mark, I had still not understood what the importance of the lynx was and I am bored enough at this point to not care. The mystery aspect is interesting enough and the up to date background is quite interesting, politically speaking. Unfortunately, most of the book is not really spent with Hilja trying to solve the murder…it is spent on so many other things, thoughts, brooding moments and secondary characters.The author seems obsessed with certain aspects of Hilja’s life and personality. For example, most an entire chapter of us has to learn that Hilja had to undergo an internal exam when she was about six or seven due to a mistake on her teachers’ part. Very detailed description I might add…and just in case you missed the description the first time, you get to experience it a second time too! In addition, it came to nothing. A lot of what is thrown into this book was repetitive (I wanted to scream if I had to hear about the New York Bodyguard school she went to, one more time and that is just one example). Perhaps the repetitiveness will make further books in this new series make more sense, but I can say that it makes THIS book to be a difficult read.The chapters that bring us to the conclusion and explanation of the crimes, is so unbelievable that I very nearly laughed at what I felt the absurdity of it all.Again, all of this might be from the translation: stilted dialogue, cardboard characters, clichés…but I think not. I think I just don’t get Scandinavian authors and that is unfortunate because I was so looking forward to something different.