Falling in Reverse

Falling in Reverse

by Julia Wolf

Ronan Walsh.

Delicious Irish accent. Built like a slab of marble. Infuriatingly controlling.

My new bodyguard...

All I want is to rock hard with my band, The Seasons Change, and finally live my life exactly how I please. No one telling me what to do, no constraints, total freedom.

Too bad I’ve managed to piss someone off.

Crazed fan or bitter ex, it doesn’t really matter, since the result is the same. My wings are clipped and I’m strapped to a bodyguard with steamrolling tendencies and a disdain for celebrities.

Everyday I spend with Ronan is a battle. For control. For independence. And most unexpectedly, with my own willpower.

Because Ronan doesn’t just want to protect me. He wants me in his bed too, and ceding my control to Ronan is more tempting than I ever imagined.

But I’m Iris Adler, a fierce-to-my-bones rocker. If Ronan Walsh really wants all of me, he’d better be prepared for the fall.

​Spice Level: 3/6

Story Score: 6/10

Rating: 3/5

Tiktok has my TBR so long. Good Lord, them girls know how to make me add a book. Once again, that’s where I got this one. I actually had two books by this author on my list and I read this one because of the Tiktok. (Honestly, I’m kinda wishing I would’ve chosen the other one.) In this one, the female main character is a rockstar and the male becomes her security provider. I say security provider because they do all the security system work for the house and such more so than bodyguarding. It’s not quite a bodyguard book. Nonetheless, on the trope challenge, it won the ‘Security’ seat.

I didn’t like Iris. She started out okay – I’m a sucker for a sweet dog too – but she lost my affection rather quickly. She just wasn’t my type of character.

Ronan was fine, but he suffered from that ‘pretty women make me do stupid things’ syndrome. You know the one.

I read this book a month ago, so I’m going to break down in the spoilers what I ACTUALLY remember. Those will be the things that stuck with me, and personally, they aren’t enough for me to actually want to continue with the series.

-SPOILERS-

They meet at the dog park and flirt – planning to hook up. She goes home and her townhouse has been smashed to bits so she forgets to call him. She’s performing at a boss’s party and in he comes (he’s there by business association). She doesn’t want security because she likes her privacy and doing things that she wants to do.

Uh, she likes weed and booze. They make her call Ronan and say whiny things. I say whiny and not vulnerable because I don’t think they have that relationship yet, but she’s bugging him in anyway.

She previously was in a MFF arrangement and she thinks the M is her stalker. Couldn’t possibly be the F. (Pretty sure the F is a main culprit.)

There’s some real drama between another security guy and his married client and that makes some waves between this couple – secrets and all.

Yup, that’s what I remember. There is nothing especially memorable about this book. There is nothing particularly likable about the characters for me personally. I generally LOVE security guys, but I just didn’t connect with this one.

Book #1 in the Season's Change series

​349 Pages

Trope Challenge: Security

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