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Margaret S. (Palo Alto, CA)
"You must not let yourself think the bad thought
A triangle is a meticulous structure. 1st person Narration requires a fixed focus and this suspenseful novel is very specific in clues and a distinct sense of place. The Blue Mountains play a part in the Back and Forth narration of three people "having something kind of good" and wanting more. Finn, Magdu and Daphne -One is treacherous, one is good, and what about the third?
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Diane P. (Heuvelton, NY)
Girl Falling
This book grabbed me in the first few pages and I couldn't wait to pick it back up and finish it. It was a definite page turner. The twist at the end, I never saw coming.
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Becky H. (Manassas, VA)
GIRL FALLING by Hayley Scrivenor
Insidious and evil. Dark and depressing. Murder or accident? And yet I HAD to keep reading. The writing was beautifully done, keeping ones desire to know and understand at a high pitch. Three women, one evil, one good, and one …also evil?...also good?….which is it? Who is doing the manipulating and who is being manipulated?
Interspersing the darkness are lovely descriptions of the landscape of Australia. The mechanics of rope climbing become a part of the story. The characters and situations are believable.
There were many times I was ready to put this book down and not pick it up again. But the depth of the writing kept me reading. It is difficult to recommend the book because there is so much of the book that is triggering. I could only recommend it to a limited number of people and I would have to know them and their reading habits well to offer this book to them. There is little light or joyous to be gotten from reading FALLING GIRL. I would not use this book in a book group because of too many triggers and no real resolution.
4 stars for the writing, 2 stars for the darkness of the story
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sms
engaging book
Girl Falling held my attention - I did not want to stop reading! The author provided a deeply touching view of relationships. It made me think about how we may share ourselves differently with different people. My only disappointment was in the ending. When I looked back in the story, I felt like I had been misled and manipulated even though I tried to appreciate the revealing of the unexpected. Sometimes when this happens, it just clicks that the underlying hints were always there but that did not happen for me with this book.
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Kristen H. (Lowell, MA)
Relationships can be deadly
This book pulls you in right from the beginning with the relationships and growth of some of the characters and the suspenseful plot. The ending was one that some people may figure out way before it is revealed but it took me a bit longer and then it was like a light bulb went off. I voluntarily reviewed an advance readers copy of this book.
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Linda J. (Ballwin, MO)
"Girl Falling" is "Reader Depressing"
Seldom have I read a book that I find a waste of time. I usually read at least a fourth of a book, maybe a third, before setting it aside. In this case, I was curious enough to plow through it, wondering how it would end, even though I was tempted to read the last chapter. My chief complaint was out of the three main characters, two were unlikeable. If you add the mother as a main character, it would be three characters. Add to that, the fact that the book was depressing - the setting, the mood, the dialogue. I realize that death is a sobering subject, but that doesn't mean the characters, especially the main ones, should cause eye-rolling. Many of Finn's actions and choices were questionable at best and weird at worst. At some point, I will read Scrivenor's other book, Dirt Creek, for which she won an award. I have no complaint with her writing. This just wasn't the book for me.
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Dianne A. (Littleton, CO)
girl falling
Was not a book I would recommend... did not like the coincidences of her dentist being Mags' uncle or that the man from the fall kept reappearing. I did not find it "heart wrenching" nor a "police procedural" as mentioned in the reviews. Nor did I think it was much of a thriller. I did like the way it was written between present and before. And I did like the characters. Although the ending was a surprise, I didn't think it was much of a twist.
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