Review: Fresh, funny and engaging
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
Every once in a while a book comes along that stands out in its genre and blows me away. The Fall of January Cooper is such a book. This story is funny, sarcastic, sad, sexy and moving all at once. I loved Audrey Bell’s writing style and I feel like I really know these characters inside and out. Ms. Bell's writing is fresh and crisp and funny.Told in alternating POV’s, this story follows January as she falls hard from her once-wealthy and privileged position as a Texas debutante. Attending Harvard, she basically loses everything (all at once!) and must learn to rely only on herself. She’s feisty, smart and sarcastic but not invincible.“January Copper. Remember her? She used to be beautiful. You used to want to know her. You used to think she had the loveliest life. Remember that, people?”January presents a frosty exterior to the world, until she meets Christian, who is hiding behind a mask of his own. These two have a love-hate relationship but it is Ms. Bell’s refreshing writing style that balances out all of the angst and the emotional turmoil that these two face.“She had a way of speaking sometimes that straddled the line between sincerity and sarcasm and I had no way of discerning which was the case.”I could not believe how January’s family treated her! But she is a strong heroine and I loved the way the story concluded. Chris is a fantastic, swoon-worthy character and my only complaint about this story is that it ended! I love this writer and can’t wait to read more of her books. Thank you, Ms. Bell, for the opportunity to read Chris and January’s story! I loved it!