“But the thing about lying is that it’s not so easy to stop. Lies need one another, like a school of fish. If you start to separate them, they’ll be killed off one by one. Sometimes the only way to keep lies alive is to tell more of them.”
Genre: Young Adult, Fiction
Actual Rating: 2.5 stars
Content Warnings: Discusses suicide, child death, sibling and parent death, drownings, cancer, nd fires.
“The Edge of Falling” follows Caggie, a rich NYC socialite and high schooler, as she deals with grief and guilt and mental illness after losing her younger sister.
I want to say it was a heavy read, but it really wasn’t. I want to say I loved this book, but I really didn’t. I love Rebecca Serle as an author, but this book really wasn’t it. The characters were only there superficially and to say it was predictable would be an understatement. Caggie was annoying and Astor was as fictional as a character could ever be. In no world would these things happen.
This book kind of reminded me of “Reconstructing Amelia” by Kimberly McCreight, which is actually a book I really liked when I was younger. But I don’t think I would recommend “The Edge of Falling”. The story and characters are bland and in the end, I was left wondering why I even grabbed the book in the first place.
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