"Sweet" is a good title for this series. The relationship between bodyguard Connor and singer Lyric is sweet. He's a conventional romantic hero who tames the wild child who has a tragic back story. This is not a memorable book but is a 3.5 stars because it pulled me through to the end though without hurry. ( )

Misunderstood rock star and hot hunky bodyguard. Once he sees through her bullshit and sees the vulnerable sweet person she really is
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Sweet Possession by Maya Banks
Connor is given the job to look after the rock star singer as a favor to his dads friend.
After meeting her one day he just heads back to the family complex and she arrives the next day apologizing.
Love how the women welcome her and they gather her together for girl time. What a new meaning for girl time for me.
Lots of hot steamy sex scenes but it's a mystery as to who's after her to kill her. She just found out but Connor and others will protect her.
Have read other books in this series and enjoyed every one. There are others that the book follows also and you realize how important family is.
She has secrets and it takes her a while to tell them to Connor. Love how the whole family comes together to help one another.
Excerpt from the next book is included at the end.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )

dobra vyuka angliny:-) na knizkach banksovy zeru tu propagaci alkoholismu: baby (jinak velmi chraneny svyma dominantama) ve trech vyzahnou dva tucty flasek vina, valej se ozraty na podlaze,jejich prisni panove si je jen prehodi pres rameno a opichaj je este nez si holky sundaj svy "high-heels-fuckme-shoes":-)))) ( )

Sweet Possession
by Maya Banks
#5 Sweet
Audio narrated by Caroline Winter
3-1/2*

Connor Malone is hired to serve as a temporary bodyguard to pop star, Lyric Jones. Lyric has a reputation for being a wild child so the two bump heads immediately because Connor is all business and wants her to take her safety seriously. They are forced by circumstances to be glued to each other 24/7 until the danger of a possible stalker passes so Connor is given the opportunity to see Lyric's true personality, which is nothing like what you find in the tabloids. They fall in love and Lyric is welcomed into the fold of Connor's closest friends and their spouses.

Although this was an enjoyable read, there were two things that came up that I see on occasion and can be a little irksome. The first is when the bodyguard immediately lusts after or falls for his client when he really should be focusing on their safety. That was covered in the story so it wasn't too troublesome for me in this case, as Lyric was well protected by a team of security personnel and wasn't strictly reliant on her personal bodyguard.

The second thing was there was kind of a big deal made about Lyric fluctuating between being a size 12 and 14 and that Connor still thought she was tiny and stressed to her all the time that she was perfect. That was sweet and at first her self-consciousness about not being smaller was due to her business manager harping on her weight because he thought her fans didn't want to see someone who didn't have a "perfect" body. My problem was that they focused A LOT on the amount of food she ate. In other books I've read, where often the character's looks and figure fits into the desirable cultural ideal, I don't think I've seen so much focus on the specific eating habits of a character when they are a little bit of a thing. Focusing on a bigger character's "healthy appetite" defeats the purpose of showing them being a desirable person as they are. Instead, the focus seems to be that they are desirable to the object of their affection despite the fact of their eating habits. It wasn't handled in an insulting way in this book, but is just a minor irritation to me when I see it come up in books. To compare it to real life, I have a friend who was once told that she "looks good for having five kids". I saw the compliment in what she was told, but her feelings were a little hurt because she wasn't just told "she looked good" in and of itself, but that there was an "in spite of" thrown in there. That made me look at compliments like that in a different light, so now it's a weird quirk of mine to be sensitive to it. ( ( )