Reviewed by Sadonna
TITLE: Flipping the Script
SERIES: Legacy Mechanics
AUTHOR: Willow Dixon
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 328 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2024
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Jesse
After years of working my butt off, I’m finally living the life I always wanted. I have a job I love, friends who’ve become family, and I’m enjoying the freedom of being single.
Then Sebastian, my childhood rival, moves back to town and my perfect life is thrown into chaos. We’ve always hated each other, but now there’s something else between us. Something wild and primal, something that wants to make Sebastian submit as much as it wants to claim him.
Hooking up with the guy I hate is probably the stupidest thing I’ve done, and that’s saying a lot. But it’s hard to remember why it’s a bad idea when he’s the only person who’s ever made me lose control, and the only man I can’t stay away from.
Sebastian
Retiring from the music industry at twenty-five wasn’t in my long-term plans. Neither was moving home after being away for seven years. But here I am with a serious case of burnout and no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life.
I hoped that moving back would give me a chance to shed my public persona and just be Sebastian again, but that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon.
The only thing in my life that makes sense is my old rivalry with Jesse, the guy I’ve hated since we were eight. Arguing with him is as exhilarating as it is familiar, and no one is more surprised than me when a fight leads to our first kiss, then more.
Jesse may be the most annoying person I’ve ever known, but the tension between us is too strong to ignore. I hate that I want him but love that he can’t stay away from me either.
Jesse and Sebastian’s book is an enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a mechanic with a secret, and a retired musician looking for his place in the world. You can expect hurt/comfort, forced proximity, ‘there’s only one bed’, found family, lots of heat, tons of dirty talk, primal play, hate s*x, and fighting as these two childhood rivals figure out that sometimes what you need has been in front of you all along. It is the first book in the exciting new Legacy Mechanics series but can be read as a standalone.
REVIEW:
Jesse and Sebastian have been “enemies” since they were 8 when Jess and his brother and dad moved to town. Now they are in their mid-20s and still seem to piss each other off. Jesse is a mechanic and Sebastian was a musician – lead singer in a metal band – who has left that world behind and returned home. He’s not an apprentice tattoo artist working at the shop of a mutual friend. They see each other at a graduation party for Sebastian’s sister Hannah and her boyfriend Quinn who happens to be Jesse’s younger brother.
Sebastian’s parents are all about appearance and control and they are none too happy about Bas’s rock career or now his tattoo career. They wanted him to take over the “family business” and nope – not happening. Jesse shows up and they do their usual bickering/bantering/sniping at each other. Then Jesse gets roped into taking some stuff up to Sebastian’s family cabin and they end up fighting – like physically. And then it turns to kissing. Say what??? Isn’t Sebastian straight? Um, maybe not so much?
Then they are at the same party. Jesse is ticked off that Sebastian is there too. He can’t stop thinking about the kiss. And the fight. And the adrenaline rush. An how much he liked it. When they find themselves alone again, well one thing leads to another and their might have been a blowjob and some live bites and some scratching involved. It’s not exactly hate sex. But it’s not not hate sex either.
Both are a little bit scared and borderline obsessed with what’s going on. They don’t understand it. But they keep ending up in the same places. And the keep ending up getting each other off too. What does this mean? They aren’t friends. What are they? Only time (and proximity) will tell.
This is a quite spicy borderline slow burn story of two opposites. Both have wildly misunderstood the other. Assumptions were off-base. Bas’s family doesn’t support him, but weirdly Jesse’s does. And has for years. These two have been in each orbits most of their lives and it takes them quite some time to figure out that there is a thin line between love and hate 😉 Also they are very hot together and have a lot more in common than meets the eye. I enjoyed seeing the characters from previous series by this author set in this same world. I really am looking forward to the next book in this series. If you are a fan of Willow Dixon’s last two series, I think you’ll enjoy this one. Recommended.
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