Reviewed by True
TITLE: Shiloh’s Secret
SERIES: Out in Austin #2
AUTHOR: K.D. Ellis
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 367 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 16, 2021
BLURB:
Shiloh Beckett has a trust fund, a stalker and a secret. He doesn’t trust easily, but his new bodyguard might just break the cycle.
Shiloh Beckett might be the sole heir to Beckett Industries, one of the leading tech companies in the world, but the last thing he wants is to become another suit-and-tie. He’s learned the hard way that money can’t buy happiness, just a better brand of misery.
Gage Tucker lives by the motto Protect and Serve. Raised by a cop who failed his family, Gage chose to serve his country the only way he knew how—with boots on the ground and a gun in his hand. After a mission gone wrong, Gage came home with a broken body but the same drive to protect. Months of rehab later, he joined Eagle Security as a Personal Protection Officer and he’s been a bodyguard ever since. Protecting a trust-fund brat from the paparazzi isn’t what he signed up for.
Soon he learns that there’s more than just the media after Shiloh, and the secrets the boy is hiding will change everything. If he can’t convince Shiloh to trust him, how can he keep him safe?
REVIEW:
Shiloh is twenty-one, a party animal, and doesn’t want security. He succeeds to get rid of them every time, and succeeds to irritate his father.
Shiloh’s father is the CEO of Beckett Industries, a leading tech firm. His father wants Shiloh to have a bodyguard, he got a stalker who gets more and more aggressive.
Gage is the one who will protect him from now on. Easier said than done. The brat is inventive with escaping.
We can follow Gage and Shiloh getting closer, we get to know both their lives, there’s a lot to know and all interesting.
Shiloh has a secret, a painful, damaging secret. Yes, bit by bit we get to know what happened to Shiloh.
The story was hugely entertaining. The client slash bodyguard content was well done.
For me, there are a few points for improvement. I had a bit of trouble with the timeline.
The first 70 percent was quite easy-going with a slow pace, a lot of things happened, entertaining and enjoyable, but not with a lot of progress, more widely developed, not into depth. We can understand something going on or going to happen soon. In the last thirty percent, there are a lot of revelations and turns, for me, it was a bit too much and in a too-short time in comparison to the previous pace.
The relationship development was convincing, ditto with the security part and the parts where friends were involved. There was quite some drama, I would already be satisfied with less. Some important parts went way too fast or were left undeveloped.
By all means, it was quite an entertaining, mostly convincing, emotional story, full of excitement, action, and with a good plot. For me, not always balanced, but certainly worth reading.
Looking back at the whole picture, I found it entertaining and enjoyable.
There are some triggers to find, keep these in mind.
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