Guest Review: The Harder They Fall by Trish Jensen

Tracy’s Review of The Harder They Fall by Trish Jensen.

Darcy Welham vows to learn the family business from top to bottom and to rid it of interlopers. Her fiery spirit, quick mind and slight klutziness scares off most men–except the one she wants to intimidate! Michael Davidson has no business interfering in her life, her job or her heart. But he will not be turned away.

Darcy’s family has run the Welham restaurant business for years. When her father decides to see she puts a stop to it and decides that she’s going to learn everything about the restaurants from the ground up. She goes incognito into one and becomes a server with only the manager knowing her true identity.

Darcy meets Michael Davidson after she manages to dump a tuna melt into his lap and then accidentally grabs his junk while she’s trying to clean him off. Michael is embarrassed but even still thinks that Darcy is incredibly hot. That doesn’t mean that he’s going to keep her around one the company he works for buys the restaurants. That’s right – he’s the guy that works for the company that plans to buy out the restaurants and he has no doubt that she’ll be the first casualty of the buy out.

When Michael finds out exactly who Darcy is he’s determined to find a way to befriend her – even though they’ve not liked each other at all up to that point. He is actually successful and the two start a relationship. Michael starts having second thoughts about what he wants in life because that he knows that he wants Darcy but how will that be possible when he’s out to take over her family business.

This was a sweet story. I really liked both Michael and Darcy a lot. They each had their bad points but I thought the good out weighed the bad by a mile.

Michael could see under all of Darcy’s klutziness. He saw the grace and poise that she just reeked of and figured out that she was basically getting in her own way. Darcy saw what a kind and loving person that Michael could be and that he wasn’t always a hard ass businessman.

There was a bit of misunderstanding and lack of communication with Darcy and Michael that easily could have been rectified but that part of it was done so well that I just couldn’t help but liking it.

I very much enjoyed Ms. Jensen’s writing and will definitely be reading more of her work in the future.

Rating:3.75 out of 5.

This book is available from Bell Bridge Books. You can buy it here or here in e-format.

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