July Selection: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

If you are looking for a summer read that is 100% pure fun, then The Bodyguard is for you. The main ingredients are sunshine, sass, swooning and swagger. Like any romcom, it has a far-fetched plot, lots of banter, and a predictable ending, but it also had lots of lovable characters, nostalgia and hope. I usually go for more darkness in my books but this one hit me at just the right time – a time when I wanted to be lost in a blissfully light and happy novel.

Hannah, our spunky heroine, is going through a rough patch in her personal life… her mother has just died and her boyfriend dumped her on the night of the funeral. She can’t wait to jump back into her work, where everything makes sense and she is in control. Turns out, Hannah is very good at her job and is a bit of a workaholic… you guessed it, she’s a bodyguard! When her next assignment turns out to be protecting Hollywood’s most eligible and dashing bachelor, the heat is turned up and Hannah finds her rigid professionalism melting away as she starts breaking her own rules.

The author, Katherine Center describes the essence of the book (which she wrote during the pandemic as a coping mechanism) perfectly in her author notes at the end of the book:

“I’m so grateful for what this particular story did for me. It nourished me in profound ways that I am still feeling months after finishing it. I’ve always wanted my stories to be about hope and light and making sense of hard times and getting back up after life has knocked us down. I’ve always wanted them to make us all (me included) laugh and swoon and give us something wise and hopeful to hold onto. That’s never been more true than with the Bodyguard. I thought about it so often during 2020 – How much laughter matters, how much hope matters, how much joy matters. How the right story at just the right time can lift you up in a way that feels like a rescue. That’s the particular magic of stories, a magic I am so grateful for every day…”

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center is a perfect summer read – pick up your copy and read with us this month! The Bodyguard will be 10% off at Aesop’s Fable during the month of July.

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