Stay Hungry

The Bounty Hunters #3

by Lorie O'Clare

One of the best manhunters in the business, Jake King usually chases fugitives on the run. But now he's been hired to protect a beautiful private eye who's flirting with danger. Her name is Angela, and the last thing she wants is hired muscle getting in the way of her investigation. But this time she's so deep undercover, she could use all the muscle she can get her hands on… Jake agrees to play by Angela's rules―and lay low while she gets close to one of the deadliest crime lords to have entered the States. But the closer Angela gets to her target, the closer she feels to Jake. As her bodyguard, he has more than just a professional interest in her body―and he'll do anything to keep her safe. But Angela is playing a dangerous game with a criminal mastermind who can make any woman his slave. And she could be next…

Genres: Romantic Suspense, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Suspense, Contemporary, Erotica, Ebooks

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 4, 2011

About the author

Lorie O'Clare is an American author of erotic romance, romantic suspense and paranormal romance novels.
The anthology Men of Danger, which featured her story “Love Me 'til Death,” was a New York Times bestseller.
Also writes under the pen name Laurie Fitzgerald.

Reviews

[Diane]

another book in the King bounty hunter series, where the heroes are trying to end "the game." this book was ok, but the game just seemed to end, towards the end of the book, so abruptly, considering it's been the focus of several books. i did like the main characters, though the hero was a bit of a man ho previously. i do enjoy this author's writing, for the most part.

[Desiree]

This book was doing nothing for me. I got sick of their looped thoughts, I didn't really like any of the characters. I didn't find anything interesting. I got 47% through and realized I was resenting the book for wasting my time. Figured it was time to end it!

[Diana Brown]

This one couldnt keep my interest and was hard to finish. Not sure why, just didnt connect to the story.

[Helen Williams]

Jake King is excellent in his job of apprehending fugitives. But he finds himself in a new position of being hired as a bodyguard for a beautiful private eye named Angela. A bodyguard is the last thing Angela wants. But she is so deep undercover trying to catch one of the deadliest crime lords that her father feels she needs backup -- thus Jake. Things heat up as they work closer.

[Paige]

A real different vibe to the third bounty hunter series. This time Jake King is going to meet his match and say goodbye to his playboy ways.

This book totally missed the romance and family feel that the other two hit on the head. The romance between Angela Huxtable (remember James Huxtable from Get Lucky?) and Jake is slow moving and progresses more in the subconscious level than it does physically. Angela is a control freak who doesn’t ever want a man to have power over her and Jake has never met a woman he’s had true feelings for, until he sees her again….

Wait? Did I say again? Why yes I did! Remember in Play Dirty when Marc and Jake got arrested for trying to ‘buy’ those two women outside that club? Well one of those lovely ladies that caught Jake’s eyes was in fact Angela undercover. It seems her and her dad weren’t too happy with the King’s bursting in and calling the cops on their undercover mission.

But when James get an important missing case, which turns out being for her half-sister, he goes to the King’s wanting backup for Angela while she continues going undercover to get close to power player Mario Mandela.

As Greg King is declining the offer, Jake sees Angela’s picture and instantly takes the case, high tailing it to Chicago. Which is my second point I mentioned above. There were no mention of the rest of the family. In Get Lucky, we got to see Greg and Haley, but in Stay Hungry you get a mention that Marc had moved to Colorado in the first few pages and a few phone calls between Jake and Greg but that is it. Seriously? I would have liked to get a little more back story. More importantly, I would have preferred the book to have taken place in their hometown and not in another state. It took away from the feel and the connection. Jake was completely on his own with this case.

Our villain Mario is into using the slave drug to gain his status in The Game. He’s capturing people left and right, keeping them under the drug. One of those captives is Marianna. Angela has gotten close to him by pretending to be exactly what he’s into: rich, ditzy, sluts.

The book was fully focused on this case and much of the content was unnecessary and repetitive. Once the case began coming to an end, it felt like everything fell into place and wrapped up entirely too easily. There were hardly any injuries, fights, or close calls. The Game was ended, Angela saved her sister, and her and Jake make it official.

I was disappointed in Stay Hungry. KFI was a bounty hunter business in the first two books, not a bodyguard service like it turned out to be in Stay Hungry. Angela had enough of a detective background; she and Jake should have taken on a more partnership role storyline in this book like Greg and Haley’s story did.

[Sarah]

I just finished this book tonight. It is the first Lorie O'Clare novel I have ever read and I'm not really impressed. This is labeled as Romantic Suspense I believe, and it's not really either romantic or suspenseful throughout most of the book. There are a few places where you do worry about the characters, if you care about them anyway, and there are places where there is some action. Most of the book is talk or inner monologue sequences from the two main characters and one of the bad guys. It took a lot longer for me to read this book than most books I read because I kept losing interest. The end was also chopped off and tied up too neatly as someone else said - in regards to the end of the game, especially after it was the subject of three books. The book needed to be revised more in order to actually make it suspenseful and to get rid of some of the annoying repetitive language.

[Darkand]

This book was a step backwards. While I enjoyed Jake and Angela's chemistry, their constant battle to deny their mutual attraction became frustrating. The storyline was good but the wrap up was way too quick and left more questions than answers about Bobby, the game, and what happens with Jake and Angela from here. Also, the smexy talk was a little disconcerting - who yells "Oh Crap" when they are in the throes??? I mean, Crap? Really? Plus, it still seems that the author is channeling Kenny Rogers every time she uses the term "lady". There were also 2 sequences that didn't really make sense and at one point, the heroine Angela was referred to as Andrea which appears to be a copy editing error. I'm hoping the next (& last) Bounty Hunter novel will help to redeem this one - at least a little bit.

[Sharon Kurtz]

Tried to read this for 2.5 weeks and finally just skimmed through it. This story is about Jake King and Angela Huxtable who is the daughter of the PI in Get Lucky. Jake is hired by Angela's father to be her bodyguard as she investigates a mafia boss member of the 'game'. Jake loses all credibility for me when the PI calls and asks where his daughter is and Jake replies, "I assume she is in her room". WTF! This dude is supposed to be guarding her with his life. Instead he's planning on how to get in her pants. I will give Run Wild a try but then I am done with this author.

[Diana]

After reading the first in this series (which I found hard to get into), the second, (which I loved) this, the third in the Bounty Hunter series, is the very best! I loved it beginning to end! The characters were so engaging, the action was intense, the love story blossomed at the right time, and everything wrapped up nicely! A simply awesome read! Waiting on the fourth book is going to be hard!

[Jennifer]

Blah blah blah! That is what you get with Lorie O'Clare, a bunch of mindless babble. There was SO much useless info in this book that I couldn't wait to get it over with. Way too wordy. If you can stick it out, the series is interesting, but would've been better written by a different author.

[Lacy]

3.5 stars

[Amy]

An okay read.

[Heather]

It was interesting and erotic! :D

[Andrea]

just couldn't get into it. dnf

[Tabitha]

I am in love with Bounty Hunters! Another thrilling story!

[Sandy Lapole]

I havent got the rest of the sries yet