Falling into Place by Amy Zhang
Rating: 3/5 stars
My Thoughts:
Well this book was pretty heartbreaking. While reminding me (a lot actually) of If I Stay, I liked this one better.
Falling Into Place is about a girl who one day drove her car off the road, and the story about exactly what led her to it. With a sort of crazy non-linear format that at first was all over the place and a mysterious narrator, it became one of my favorite things about this book. Also the narrator- really surprising who it turned out to be but I guessed correctly and I love doing that.
So Liz Emerson is a completely awful person. With each new flashback, you get into the history of how she destroyed people’s lives left and right. Sure she felt remorse, but she never actually apologize or tried to make things right. She acted like it was other people’s fault for her own mistakes and for that, I hated her. But at the same time, I couldn’t help but feel just a little bit sorry for her. Also I loved the friendship between her two best friends.
Sometimes though, things just felt like too much. You have teenagers dealing with bullying, pregnancy and an abortion, drug addiction, attempted rape, alcoholism, bulimia, depression, suicide, and probably more that I can’t remember off the top of my head. I know what the book is about and I know that teenagers actually go through this kind of stuff but still. Sometimes these kind of contemporaries just have too many dramas in one person/group of friends.
Despite that though, the writing style was fascinating and it was a quick read that still left me a bit emotional at the end.
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