The Bodyguard (Includes: T-FLAC, #14.5) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Jul 26, 2010 Melindeeloo rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance

You'd never guess from the name, but surprise, surprise, The Bodyguard is a paranormal romance anthology.

"Temptation on Ice" by Cherry Adair is a T-FLAC short. Time is running out for kidnapped scientist Michaela when Sebastian, the man she's dreamt of for years arrived to 'rescue' her. But Sebastian's assignment is to take out the sexy woman, he believes faked her own death and is working for the enemy on a bomb that will destroy the world - While I liked the characters' back-story and thought You'd never guess from the name, but surprise, surprise, The Bodyguard is a paranormal romance anthology.

"Temptation on Ice" by Cherry Adair is a T-FLAC short. Time is running out for kidnapped scientist Michaela when Sebastian, the man she's dreamt of for years arrived to 'rescue' her. But Sebastian's assignment is to take out the sexy woman, he believes faked her own death and is working for the enemy on a bomb that will destroy the world - While I liked the characters' back-story and thought that Sebastian's ability to borrow others' paranormal powers was pretty cool, I had a hard time getting past Sebastian boinking Michaela when he intends on killing her later.

"Temptation in Shadows" - Showalter's was my favorite story of the bunch - Gabby is a survivor of an experiment that has left her with very dangerous powers. Sean is an operative in a paranormal agency undercover trying to get close to Gabby to determine if she is a threat which needs to be neutralized - it seemed almost like this story should be connected to Showalter's Extraordinary Girl series, because of the superpowers, but I didn't recognize any character overlap. Sean is a great character, I loved his power of manipulating the shadows and the chemistry between him and Gabby is really good too. Even though I would have loved more, Showalter did a really good job of telling their story in this short space.

“Hunting Temptation” by Lorie O`Clare - The bounty hunter hero, Seth, tracking down a serial killer goes to his favorite 'source' - who unknown to Seth is a werewolf - for info and catches the attention of his informant's sister Jenna. Jenna is intrigued by the human and decides to evade her protective pack to entice Seth to scratch her itches - and inadvertently sets herself up as the next target for the killer - I have never read anything by O'Clare before, so fans may not agree with me, but I really did not like story. Seth was pretty good character but my like for him just wasn't enough to overcome my dislike for his leading lady. Jenna was annoyingly TStL (too-stupid-to-live) most of the time but she's "not a slut" - awk, Jenna thinks this repeatedly and for some reason that phrase irked me big-time every time I read it.

I liked Showalter's offering enough to override my dislike of O'Clare and give the book three stars.

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