Review - CLOSER by Kylie Scott
CLOSER is part of Kylie Scott's Stage Dive series and it is releasing as part of 1001 Dark Nights. Check out the book trailer from the title below.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kylie Scott comes a new story in her Stage Dive series…
When a stalker gets too close to plus-size model Mae Cooper, it’s time to hire some muscle.
Enter former military man turned executive protection officer Ziggy Thayer. Having spent years guarding billionaires, royalty, and rock n roll greats, he’s seen it all. From lavish parties through to every kind of excess.
There’s no reason some Instagram stylista should throw him off his game. Even if she does have the most dangerous curves he’s ever seen...
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MY THOUGHTS:
3.5 stars. I really wanted to like this book. Great blurb, great series but not the strongest in the series. Our main characters are a broody, trying-to-stay-professional and very stoic Ziggy, the bodyguard. And Mae, our supermodel who's being stalked and sent some pretty unsavory gifts (which prompted the need for a bodyguard). Both characters, sadly, came off a bit cliche. Mae's "famous" friends also came off a bit cardboard cliche, even though they were good characters. There is nothing from his POV so I never understood him as a character or his motivations. He doesn't really do much of anything other than stare and smolder for about 75% of the novel, which made me as the reader have a tough time connecting to him since all I knew was he was hot and an ex-marine with some good fighting skills.
Overall, the story is cute and short. It's a classic forced-protector, forced-proximity bodyguard story that I didn't find innovative. But if you're looking for this classic trope, then you may find it's your thing.
I had a tough time with the writing in many locations. There are a lot of places with dialogue without dialogue tags. So, I had to re-read several times to figure out who spoke. This was particularly an issue when there were two separate paragraphs of short dialogue where the same character said both lines but it wasn't clear it was the same character. This made it confusing and unfortunately drew me out of the story.
I received this as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Overall, the story is cute and short. It's a classic forced-protector, forced-proximity bodyguard story that I didn't find innovative. But if you're looking for this classic trope, then you may find it's your thing.
I had a tough time with the writing in many locations. There are a lot of places with dialogue without dialogue tags. So, I had to re-read several times to figure out who spoke. This was particularly an issue when there were two separate paragraphs of short dialogue where the same character said both lines but it wasn't clear it was the same character. This made it confusing and unfortunately drew me out of the story.
I received this as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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