Review: Actor + Bodyguard = 5 wonderful stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
"A desire and need and hunger that changed everything. Everything."I absolutely loved this book - it pressed all the right buttons and was just what I was in the mood for!For some reason (probably wanting to believe in fairytales), I adore stories where a famous person falls for an ordinary guy. Ok, so Liev wasn't exactly your run-of-the-mill guy, at least not where I hang out "...a six foot three bi-sexual firefighting bodyguard..." but I'm sure you get the gist.Chris is an actor with a high rating TV show and a new blockbuster action movie about to be released. He is in Australia for the premiere. Chris has a reputation as a real ladies man and has never been attracted to another man. That all changes when he meets Liev, the bodyguard assigned to watch over him for the week in Sydney.Liev was a gorgeous character - sexy, protective, caring. He wanted to do the right thing by Chris and I just wanted him to get his so well deserved happy ending.What I most liked about this story was Chris' reaction to his attraction to Liev. He is wildly turned on but it isn't purely a physical attraction. "It had little to do with Liev's sexy Australian accent and everything to do with the way Chris felt...complete when the man was near him. Not just safe, complete. Which only confused Chris more. He hadn't realised he wasn't whole until then."But there is no doubting their chemistry and the sex is hot - it is raw, hard and passionate - and there is no holding Chris back, even if he's never had this type of sex before.The direction the story took was pleasantly surprising, NOT falling into the standard plot line of the celebrity running from being found out to be gay. Of course things don't go smoothly. Firstly there are all the problems associated with the men acknowledging they should be together and finally the problems trying to sort out the future.My only concern with the story was the role Chris' PA Bethany played in bringing the men together. I really liked her character but never fully understood her true motivation for bringing Chris and Liev together. I'm glad she did but the tactics she used just didn't seem to fit with the professional assistant she appeared as - she didn't even call Chris by his first name so her actions were very surprising.Actor, bodyguard, action, drama, sexual chemistry....5 stars