Necessary Risk by Tara Wyatt (Bodyguard #1)
Released: February 23, 2016
Romantic Suspense
Forever
Reviewed by Mandi
This is a fun romantic suspense from a debut author. Sierra Blake is a former child star who now lives a pretty quiet life on the royalties she still receives from being a child actor years ago. Her passion in life is to support Choices, (think Planned Parenthood) where she donates her time, money and is also a spokesman for them. When she is reuniting with her former castmates at a 90’s convention, someone throws a diaper at her filled with red dye. There are those people in the world that hate her for being pro-choice and supporting a place like Choices. She is rattled, but tries to put it behind her – until she gets home and notices her alarm is off, and someone wrote in bright red paint on her wall, “Baby Killer.” Throwing something at her in public is one thing but breaking into her house is an entirely new threat level. Sierra knows she needs security.
Sean runs a large security firm and is more than willing to bring Sierra on as a client. After assessing her current security, he moves himself into her pool house and has some of his team members on call until they can get her house secure. But more threats and incidents keep happening, keeping both of them on their toes.
Sean and Sierra have great chemistry in this book. Well done sexual tension is one of my favorite things, and the first half of this book has these two almost all over each other a lot. When Sierra goes into his office to hire him, there is already delicious chemistry:
He stood, his hands on his hips, holding his open suit jacket back to reveal a flat stomach, trim waist, and narrow hips. An employee said something that elicited a laugh from Sean, and the sound that reached her was warm and rich. She wanted to wrap herself in that sound, it was so appealing. He turned again to go back to his office, the wool of his suit hugging his ass and showing off rounded muscle.
Holy gorgeous, Batman.
Sean is not super growly alpha or anything, but definitely in charge. He is very smart with security and takes everything seriously in regards to her case. He’s funny and mature and the way the author writes him – he is very sexy. Even though he tries to keep his distance from Sierra since she is his client, I was rooting for them to break through that barrier. Pffft – who cares about client/employer relationship bans?? *wink* It takes awhile for these two to get together, but once they do it’s worth the wait.
Sierra takes the threats seriously as well, something I appreciated. I can’t stand it in romantic suspense books, when something creepy or suspicious happens to a character and he/she blows it off or waits 20 days to call the police. Sierra acted reasonably and that made me happy. She accepted Sean’s help and advice for her safety, but she also stood her ground when she wanted to continue being a representative for Choices, even though she was being threatened. Go Sierra.
We also meet some of Sierra’s friends and some of Sean’s co-workers, all who piqued my interest and who will be getting future books together.
The suspense in this is done okay. The bad guy reveal was maybe not the biggest revelation in the world, and by the end of the book I think the suspense and the incidents against Sierra were a bit extreme and over the top. But the author never lets the story slow down, so that was fun.
This is a fun and sexy read. Very much looking forward to book two, out in May.
Grade: B
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