Rochelle B. Weinstein’s Where We Fall is the story of a love triangle gone wrong. Unfortunately, the book was very flat for me with
characters I just couldn’t come to like.
Lauren and Ryan fell instantly in love when they were in
college, and together with Lauren’s best friend, Abby, they did everything
together. When Lauren took off on the
adventure of a lifetime, she promised Ryan that she’d be back, but when his
father passed away, Lauren was nowhere to be found. Abby took fast advantage of that situation,
and she and Ryan ended up married and parents to Juliana. Fast forward to present day, and Ryan still can’t understand why he didn’t
hear from Lauren after his father’s death.
With each chapter narrated in the first person by a different character,
the complete story is told, with a teenage love story between Juliana and her
football star boyfriend, E.J., also thrown in.
If all this sounds complicated, that’s because it
is. But the plot itself isn’t what makes
the book uninteresting (although the Abby/Ryan/Lauren story is much better than
the Juliana/E.J. story). The wording is
far too superfluous, and I just kept wishing for Weinstein to get to the point
of the chapter already. Goodreads says
that it took me over two months to read Where
We Fall; it was just too wordy for me, and two months is far too long for
me to spend with characters I couldn’t come to care about.
MY RATING - 2
