Review: His Saint by Lucy Lennox
SYNOPSIS:
Augie:
I don’t need anyone’s protection. I’m fine. But to appease my sister after a home invasion, I agree to take self-defense lessons. They just so happen to be with a big, muscled former navy SEAL who may or may not be everything I’ve always daydreamed about but never thought I could have.
And he’s dead-set on looking out for me even when things in my life suddenly get complicated. Between the increasing threats against me and pressure from my wealthy family to be someone I’m not, I’m having a hard time keeping it together. As I begin to fall apart, I lose faith I’ll ever meet anyone who’ll want a mess like me–much less meeting someone strong and capable like Saint Wilde.
The more time I spend with him, however, the more I realize he’s not as put together as he seems. And I begin to wonder… while Saint’s busy looking after everyone else, who’s looking after him?
Saint:
After my big fat mouth gets me in trouble with a high-profile client, my boss takes away the bodyguard gig and sends me back to my hometown to give one of society’s elites a few lessons at a local gym. Babysitting an antiques nerd is hardly my idea of a good time, but as soon the attractive, petite man walks into the workout center, I nearly trip over my own feet.
He’s effing adorable.
And absolutely scared to death.He won’t tell me what’s spooked him, but I won’t rest until I find a way to take the fear out of his gorgeous eyes. Even if defending Augie means I have to stop protecting my own heart.
REVIEW:
Hmmmm, I have mixed feeling after finishing this story. I didn’t hate it, but it didn’t live up to my expectations either. I think Saint and Augie as individual characters are fantastic, but there was a lot of external baggage weighing down their relationship and at the end of the day, I still feel like I really don’t know Saint on a deeper level.
Augie is one fickle, insecure man. He was bullied and tormented by family and classmates and that trauma still lingers today. In addition, he has some lingering issues from his father’s death that hang over him like a cloud. He runs hot and cold with Saint. He is head over heels attracted to the man but he is so insecure about himself that he feels no one could possibly want him. On one hand, this broke my heart. The man’s family has beaten down his self-esteem to absolutely nothing. On the other hand, he never really grew or evolved past the sob story, which was disappointing.
In comparison, all I know is that Saint is an ex-SEAL who is now on security. You never really get to know what makes Saint tick. He kinda falls in insta-love with Augie and then spends the entire story consumed by Augie’s sob story, protecting Augie, and revolving around Augie. I wanted more of Saint’s backstory and how he came to be. I wanted to see his relationships with his siblings more but he kind of felt like the loner in the family. I think this story was also missing Saint having a deep bond with his grandfathers, which really added an extra special something to each story in the series thus far.
Saint and Augie’s relationship runs hot and heavy and then cold and scattered. They are just plagued by miscommunications and incorrect assumptions. And while there were truly delightfully awkward scenes that left me endless giggling, there were also scenes that left me so frustrated I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room.
The story ends with two surprise twists. First, King returns and I am truly dying for his story as he is so elusive. Secondly, Grandpa Wilde is revealed to be a Marian…which I really don’t know how I feel about since I quit reading that series because the old grannies were perverted creeps. Actually, I know I feel about it and I don’t particularly care for this crossover.
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