Watch Me de Sloane Kennedy

Bonjour mes p’tits chats,

J’espère que vous allez bien! Je vous retrouve aujourd’hui pour la chronique d’un roman sorti un peu de nulle part, dans le sens où l’auteure ne l’avait pas du tout annoncé et où on attendait plutôt la suite d’une de ses séries en cours. Mais Sloane Kennedy avait envie d’autre chose et c’est ainsi qu’est sorti Watch Me qui est un standalone. Résumé :

Nikolai
My rules when it comes to my job in personal protection are pretty simple:

1. Protect the client’s life, not their feelings.
2. Don’t put hands on a client unless you’re getting them out of harm’s way.
3. For God’s sake, don’t do something stupid like fall in love.

Twenty-four hours after meeting Jude Archer, rules 1 and 2 are already out the window.

Thankfully there’s no chance of falling for the callous businessman who cares more about his next deal than he does his own safety.

Jude may have managed to make fools of all the guys his wealthy boss and rumored lover has hired to watch him, but he’s playing in the big leagues now. The son of a bitch might not value his life, but I’m pretty fond of mine.

Time to teach the clueless Jude Archer a few hard lessons…

Jude
My rules for success aren’t for everyone, but they should be.

1. Work hard.
2. When you’re on the verge of giving up, work harder. Life owes you nothing. You have to take what you want.
3. For God’s sake, don’t do something stupid like get distracted by feelings.

With just weeks between me and the closing of the deal that will give me everything I want, I don’t have time to worry about a supposed stalker who hasn’t had the balls to do anything more than send a few threatening letters to my wealthy boss.

Sure, I sent a few so-called bodyguards packing. Even if I thought I was in serious danger, I can’t have someone watching me 24/7. My life works the way it does for a reason and no one, not even the gorgeous Russian ex-soldier who thinks he can scare me into submission, is going to change that.

Nikolai Falkov thinks he has something to teach me? Yeah, good luck with that.

FR- Alors alors…. alors avec ce roman j’ai envie de dire qu’on revient sur les classiques de l’auteure. Si ses derniers romans étaient toujours bien mais légèrement en dessous des premiers, je trouve qu’avec Watch Me, on retrouve la grande Sloane Kennedy des débuts (des débuts en MM , en gros les premiers tomes des Protectors).

J’ai énormément aimé ce roman que j’ai dévoré en quelques heures. Impossible de le poser une fois commencer et je me suis complètement laissée happer par l’histoire de Jude et Nikolai. Je suis tombée sous le charme de ces deux personnages. J’ai pleuré comme je n’avais pas pleuré depuis longtemps pour un roman de Sloane Kennedy.

J’ai aimé chaque moment de ma lecture. Je ne me suis pas ennuyée une seule seconde et j’ai retrouvé la Sloane Kennedy de ses grands romans.

L’histoire en elle même est assez classique mais l’auteure utilise tous les codes du genre pour donner de la force à son roman. Les personnages sont touchants, forts, attachants et on ne peut que s’immerger dans leur histoire et en ressortir touché.

J’ai énormément aimé la relation entre Nikolai et Jude. Jude m’a particulièrement émue et comme souvent dans les romans de l’auteure, j’ai versé ma petite larme à plusieurs reprises.

On retrouve la construction classique des romans de Sloane Kennedy avec une tension entre les deux personnages qui monte crescendo pour que lorsqu’ils finissent par craquer, leur relation soit forte, intense et passionnée. Les scenes de sexe, si elles se font attendre sont toujours aussi bien écrites et décrites. On retrouve la plume de l’auteure avec des personnages complexes, abimés, qui vont se reconstruire ensemble et devenir meilleurs.

Un roman qui reprend tous les codes de l’auteure et qui renoue pour moi avec ses romans du début. Une belle surprise d’une auteure que j’aime toujours autant.

ENG- So well well well … well with this novel I want to say that we are going back to the author’s classics. If her last novels were always good but slightly below the firsts, I find that with Watch Me, we find the great Sloane Kennedy from the beginnings (from the beginnings in MM, roughly the first volumes of the Protectors).

I really liked this novel which I devoured in a few hours. Impossible to put it down once I started and I let myself be completely caught up in Jude and Nikolai’ story. I fell in love with these two characters. I cried like I hadn’t cried in a long time with a Sloane Kennedy novel.

I loved every moment of my reading. I was not bored for a single second and I found the Sloane Kennedy of her great novels.

The story itself is fairly classic, but the author uses all the codes of the genre to give strength to her novel. The characters are touching, strong, endearing and you can only immerse yourself in their story and come out touched.

I really liked the relationship between Nikolai and Jude. Jude particularly moved me and as often in the author’s novels, I shed some tears several times.

We find the classic construction of Sloane Kennedy’s novels with a tension between the two characters which rises crescendo so that when it explodes, their relationship is strong, intense and passionate. The sex scenes, if they are long overdue, are still as well written and described. We find the author’s pen with complex, flawed characters who will rebuild themselves together and become better.

A novel which takes up all the author’s codes and which for me reconnects with her early novels. A nice surprise from an author whom I still love so much.

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