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Debbie C. (Sun Lakes, AZ)

Mystery and discovery
I really enjoyed this book. The plot kept you interested and intrigued. It also helps a person understand manipulation and how someone can be sucked in when they provide the opportunity. A very good description of a type of mental illness. I recommend this book.

Terrie J. (Eagan, MN)

A book full of feelings
I really liked this book. A tragedy brings out many different feelings on so many levels…friends, parents, relatives and the police. Friendship is tested and there is an undertone of friendship vs love. I feel that women would enjoy this book because women are the key characters. I also think women can relate to the roller coaster of emotions. This book is well written and introduces new plots throughout the book. I highly recommend this book.

Barbara H. (Thomasville, GA)

Friendship to the end....
Another amazing Australian author!! This is a powerful novel about friendship, all its nuances and its power to destroy another. A co-dependent relationship existed for many years between Daphne and Finn, developing and morphing into something else - "like a vine that snakes around a tree until the tree and vine can no longer be separated.....holding each other up...." This story is also about secrets and how a secret in the telling can destroy someone and a secret in the knowing can give a person power over another.

The author graphically depicts the rawness of each character - and brings them to a level of development like the coming together of a great symphony.. I had to read this novel with new acceptance and tolerance and lose prejudices. It is totally amazing how the mind can block the obvious to keep one from seeing what is truly in front of them.....as this novel does. This was a wonderful novel!!

Anna R. (Oak Ridge, TN)

Inusual
I found the book to be a slow starter, but as I kept reading, I was hooked. Finn has a new love, but her former lover is very jealous. I was shocked that Finn didn't realize that. Daphne was extremely manipulative and went out of her way to get what she wanted. Magdu realized that, but Finn was too much in love with Magdu to see what was happening.
I felt sorry for Finn because of how Daphne treated her and also because she was dyslexic.
The ending was a real shocker!!







aphne

Roberta W. (Los Ranchos, NM)

Good Thriller
I enjoyed this book although it was not as good as Scrivenor's first book Dirt Creek. This book is well-written and there is a good twist at the end.

The narrator, Finn is a young woman who has begun dating Magdu. The other main character is Daphne, who at times has been Finn's lover and is now jealous of Magdu. The three of them go climbing and Magdu falls to her death. This action happens at the very beginning of the book and after that the book's focus is on the past relationships of these women and of course figuring how Magdu fell.

My reason for giving the book 4 stars instead of 5, is that the characters are not all that likable, including the narrator. The author throws in a lot of superfluous details (like the many times Finn talks about her period and cramps---do we really need that detail?)

I can recommend the book, but Dirt Creek is much better.

Nancy L. (Staunton, VA)

Falling For You
"Girl Falling" is a psychosocial story of three women who are woven together into a love triangle of sorts. It begins with Daphne and Finn, friends since high school, who know each other's most devastating secret. Finn, who is desperate to have her secret remain hidden, is basically at Daphne's beck and call. When a new woman, Magdu, enters, and Finn falls madly in love with her, the balance of her friendship with Daphne goes way off kilter in an almost unhealthy way, resulting in a horrible accident. Or was it murder? There were parts of this novel that I found to be very well done. The writing detailing Finn's grief was substantial. I could clearly feel the heaviness and disbelief that overtakes Finn after the death of her lover. I was shocked, however, and not at all prepared for the twist at the very end. I would have preferred to understand better the deeper motives for such a surprise. All in all, the book had me hooked from the beginning.

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