My rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Hard Fall”
That’s what my mom is always saying: “The bigger you are, the harder you fall.” She’s talking about love—I’ve never been in it myself, but that doesn’t stop me from secretly matchmaking for my friends. Who would suspect me, a world class athlete, of meddling in other people’s love lives? I love Love, especially when it’s not me who’s doing the falling…
“No Thanks.”
That’s what Hollis Westbrooke said when I asked her on a date. Well, propositioned her, actually—but it was all a big joke; one she doesn’t think is funny. My stomach is in knots since I might actually like this girl so the joke is on me. Hollis’s father is my boss—and she doesn’t date players.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall—especially when biggest player is me.
Hard Fall
Great characters!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😎😂
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Hollis Westbrooke – Her grandfather owns the Chicago Steam professional baseball team, and her father is the general manager. Hollis works as a junior editor for a publishing house. Her father has been trying to talk her into working for him like her sister and brother. Though her father is overbearing, and she doesn’t want to be under his thumb. She recently dated Marlen, the first baseman and broke up with him after he borrowed her car and was photographed soliciting a prostitute. So, Hollis is not hot on hanging out at the baseball stadium where she could run into him.
The Hero: Trace “Buzz” Wallace – He is a professional baseball player who plays for the Chicago Steam. His brother Tripp, is a professional football player and their younger sister True, works at a sports agency for high school and college athletes. He is the kind of grown man that often acts like a young kid, especially when he is around his family. He flips houses in the off season. He is also an amateur matchmaker, which basically means he is all up in everyone’s love lives without them knowing.
The Story: Hollis meets Buzz as she was leaving the stadium after a visit with her father. He immediately hit on her and she was having none of it. He followed her and tried his luck with getting to know her. He liked her “good girl” looks and wanted to get her to agree to a date. Hollis thinks he was such a douche but admits that he is hot when she talks to her friend about it later on. Buzz finds out who she is and thinks better of trying to date her, especially if he wants to keep his job.
I really liked Buzz in the other books I have read. He is a man-child most definitely, but he is hilarious, and you can’t help but like him. Hollis is actually kind of perfect for him since she is so down to earth and strait laced. I loved the fact that he rescued her when her ex-boyfriend was being a jerk to her. I thought Hollis might be a bit boring, but she was actually a great character, she loved how funny Buzz was and held her own against his antics.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Alexander Cendese and. I do really like Alexander Cendese, he has a great voice and puts a ton of emotion into his narration. Though, he does have a terrible female voice. So would really be better in duet narration. Sarah Puckett was much better than the last narrator I listened to Hard Luck, book four in this same series. Sarah Pucket has a soft, feminine voice which is very pleasant. For some reason her voice reminds me a bit of Sophia Bush.
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