Review of The Fall by Allyson Kennedy
When you’ve lost all you’ve desperately sought to keep, why bother hoping for a second chance?
With her pent up faith in love unraveling, former hopeless romantic Emery Brooks is a shell of the girl who once craved a love story that mirrored her grandparents’ fifty-year marriage. Taking all efforts to guard her heart, she isolates herself from everything she’s ever loved, including her music and faith, now battling the same cynicism she worked so hard to protect Sawyer from.
When Emery is asked to post the video for the song she and Sawyer wrote online, her first instinct is to resist. No one understands their story. No one can relate to what they’ve gone through. Grief should not be publicized.
Resistance proves to be futile, as the video plunges Emery into a world of new possibilities. Will Emery succumb to her stubborn tendencies and avoid all risks, or learn to leap again into the comfort of God’s arms, despite uncertainty?
Nicholas Sparks meets contemporary YA in this tear-jerking continuation of The Ballad of Emery Brooks trilogy. Fans of A Walk to Remember will appreciate this throwback to timeless romance, along with the themes of overcoming hardships and learning the basis of faith.
With her pent up faith in love unraveling, former hopeless romantic Emery Brooks is a shell of the girl who once craved a love story that mirrored her grandparents’ fifty-year marriage. Taking all efforts to guard her heart, she isolates herself from everything she’s ever loved, including her music and faith, now battling the same cynicism she worked so hard to protect Sawyer from.
When Emery is asked to post the video for the song she and Sawyer wrote online, her first instinct is to resist. No one understands their story. No one can relate to what they’ve gone through. Grief should not be publicized.
Resistance proves to be futile, as the video plunges Emery into a world of new possibilities. Will Emery succumb to her stubborn tendencies and avoid all risks, or learn to leap again into the comfort of God’s arms, despite uncertainty?
Nicholas Sparks meets contemporary YA in this tear-jerking continuation of The Ballad of Emery Brooks trilogy. Fans of A Walk to Remember will appreciate this throwback to timeless romance, along with the themes of overcoming hardships and learning the basis of faith.
I had to read this book after the last book left off, even with the heartbreaking cover, to see if Emery gets a better chapter in her story. And since this chapter features her having to process her grief, it spans a few years. Emery has to face the same things everyone else her age does: finishing up high school and preparing to face her future . . . but everything is through a different lens now. By accident, she's becoming a household name in her hometown. And quite on purpose, a new contender for her heart has arrived . . . but Emery is determined not to give her heart away to be broken again.
This book was not a light, fluffy read but something that consumed me as I was right there with Emery's psyche watching her heal and break and heal and break in perhaps the most realistic representation of grief I have ever seen in literature. This one pulls at your heart strings, but it has a heart while it does so, and just feels so real. Emotions are allowed to happen, and relapses occur. But Emery is not alone, even when it seems no one understands, they do, and so does God. A beautiful, bittersweet journey that has me anticipating the next installment.
This book is perfect for anyone who read book one and everyone who wants YA/NA books with more depth.
Note to more sensitive readers: this book deals with grief, so buckle up and brace yourselves.
I received a complimentary copy from the author, but was not required to leave a favorable review.
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