Blurb:

On any given day, Keltie Sullivan tries to get by with the least amount of drama and strife. But when a chance encounter brings Bryce Montgomery into her life, she’s forced to take a second look at everything she’s been avoiding.

Keltie’s initial reaction is to fight her attraction to Bryce. Determined to avoid the heartache and complications of a new relationship, she finds it difficult to resist his charms, and as soon as she allows him into her heart—the nightmares she’s endured for many years get worse.

Plagued by a haunting and painful past, Keltie must make a tough decision. She knows her heart is strong enough to find happiness again...but is it strong enough to lose it? Will she let her past dictate her future, or will her stubbornness allow her to choose a different path?

Rich with emotion and passion, G.L. Moore’s debut novel will have you wondering whether or not love is worth the risk.

Cover Review:

The cover is colorful, beautiful and so very attractive. I would have bought the book just for it's cover!

Review:

I got this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange of an honest review. It took me so long to finally get to reading it and I regret it oh-so-much.

I'm so in love with this book. I love reading books that portray a broken character and that one person who changes everything.

I fell in love with Sparky and Bean.

Bean is the most sarcastic, most awesome girl I've ever known. Also, she's so damn strong. I fell in love with the way she managed to continue living after all that she had been through.

Sparky on the other hand is a cute, caring cowboy that I loved immensely. The way he just knows what Bean needs/feels shows just how much he cares!

I was totally freaked at the plane crash thing, but the end made me warm all over, and I had happy tears in my eyes.

So yeah, I loved loved loved Refusing To Fall!

Gonna have to call it quits - I made it 60%, but I'm just not jiving with our female character. She's broken, refuses to fall in love, but nothing I'm seeing really explains it or seems so dramatic that she can't move past it. The hero, Bryce, is a doll. He nicknamed her "Bean", because she refuses to be called beautiful, honey, sugar, etc. And the way he came up with the nickname was brilliant. I won't be rating, since I couldn't finish it.

Rating: 1 star - DNF @ 41%

Refusing to Fall was not as I had expected it to be - which isn't necessarily a bad thing of course, but in this case, it unfortunately was. I was expecting some cutesy read about a cynical young woman, fighting against her feelings that slowly grow from distrust to an overwhelming kind of love for the love interest. Or something like that anyway.

But that's not exactly what I got. Firstly, the speed where Keltie, our MC, starts 'having feelings' for Bryce, the love interest, feels ridiculously fast. They've met twice until she loses a bet twice, resulting into unwanted dates between the two - Keltie is absolutely aversed to dating - but on the second date she starts to suddenly really like him and not just because he's "deliciously handsome" (gag) but he seems to "see right through her" after having spoken to her twice or something.

We also get some drama between Keltie and her job, and her father and goodness it was just so. Lame. I know, this sounds harsh but honestly??? This book is 360 pages long (I got to 41% so I've read, roughly 150 pages?) and I have been BORED the whole freaking time - except the prologue. I liked that. But the rest? Yeah, no.

Moreover, our MC Keltie is pretty unlikable in my opinion, reading her POV annoyed me quite a lot. Firstly because it often felt like she was around the age of 18 - I honestly thought she was that but then they were talking about how some of them were nearly 30, married and with kids, which left me flabbergasted. It's never an issue if the characters aren't around my age, really, but when they aren't yet act like they are then it does become a problem.
Also, the things Keltie thought sometimes were completely ridiculous.

"I've watched him choose to date some incredibly wrong women - annoying, small-minded, fighting an eating disorder, you name it"
uhM EXCUSE YOU how does fighting an eating disorder qualify someone to be a "wrong" person? HOW can being annoying and small-minded be categorised with fighting a freaking eating disorder???? (this was where I DNF'ed)

All in all, I did not enjoy Refusing to Fall, even though it had quite some potential.

I felt for Keltie and her struggles. While I have never gone through anything to the magnitude that she has, the author, GL Moore, illustrates this beautifully. She gives the necessary details and wonderfully communicates Keltie’s various trust issues, but I feel like Kaltie has ton's of trust issues and new ones pop up ever other chapters.
The supporting characters, as well as the love interest, Bryce, are also written well. While Moore could have slightly elaborated on their backgrounds, the details that were present were sufficient. Moore also disappears after a few chapters. The way the author first starts this books and Moore's characters you feel that he would be in the book more often as a villain. The ending is set up for a sequel, but I felt that the story would be too dragged out with one.

really liked this book. a good solid read

Refusing to Fall is a well written novel. Good plot and character developed for a debut novel.