Review: A Really Good Story about Young Love and Heartbreak
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2013
The Falling of Love centers around Grace, a teenage girl, who falls in love with Ian, a boy with a troubled home life. The author did a great job capturing young love and showing how exciting and beautiful a new romance can be. The beginning brought back memories of when my husband and I first started dating as teenagers. Just like Grace and Ian, we fell for each other very hard and very fast. When Ian ends up living with Grace's family, I could relate to that as well because I had lived with my husband's family during my senior year of high school (prior to being married of course). Grace and Ian were then out on their own at a young age just as we were so I really felt for them and for their struggles. It is tough having to grow up so soon, and this book shows that very well. Things get dramatically worse though as Ian embarks on a dangerous lifestyle in L.A. The love they have for each other is strong, but their relationship gets heavily tested.While the content is intended for mature readers only, the writing style would have otherwise led me to believe it was geared towards a younger audience. Despite that, this book has a really good story that is painfully realistic at times. There are some explicit scenes, but they do not take over. They are used to enhance the story, and they are placed at appropriate times rather than being thrown in constantly for no reason other than to have lots of graphic sex.It was a book that kept my interest the whole way through, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen. The dialogue really brought the story alive, and the characters seemed very real. I often found myself angry, sad, or hopeful. It was definitely an emotional ride. I'm looking forward to book two!