Review: This is not a fairy tale.  It is real life.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2013
If I Fall by Anna CruiseGenre: Contemporary FictionAge Group: Young AdultRelease Date: April 6, 2013Length: Full Length NovelFormat: via KindleSource:  received from author for honest reviewReview Date: April 15, 2013Overall Rating: 4 starsI'd like to start by pointing out that this is not a romance per se, but much of the storyline surrounds a "love" story.  It is more like a "fictional memoir" detailing a young high school girl dealing with her parents' divorce.  And she is struggling. Badly.Megan is a high school sophomore, a good girl, with strait-laced friends, and a crumbling home life.  She is heartbroken by her parents divorce and her father's decision to remarry.  She meets Aiden, a senior from her high school, and a real life bad boy while out one night.  He is part of the "bad" crowd, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs regularly.  Not long after they meet,  they are a couple, and she is no longer a "good girl."Megan is vulnerable and Aiden is a predator.  He uses Megan's need to escape her home-life to his advantage every chance he gets.  He is not the hot bad boy with a big heart underneath it all.  He is just a hot bad boy, period.  The kind that are in the real world.  The kind a lot of girls, myself included, can relate to being with as a teenager.  There was no happy ending coming from this type of guy, only heartbreak.As their relationship progresses it deals with many heavy subjects:  teenage rebellion, alcohol and drug use, consensual and non-consensual sex, first love, and parental neglect.  It is a brutally honest portrayal of a teenage girl without direction.  She gets lost.  But all hope is not gone. There is a boy that wants her to find herself again. Will she let him in? Or is it too late?I highly recommend this book, especially for teens (high-school aged) and their parents. This is what every teenage girl faces without parental direction.  This is real life.~StacyHggBooks Unhinged