My Rating---> 4 of 5 STARS
Read on Oct. 5, 2014
Alright so I really really really like Ginger Scott's writing and her stories speak to my soul. Well, I have read "How We Deal With Gravity" and now "This is Falling" and both of them are exceptionally well written, highly emotional, dramatic, thought provoking, insightful and entertaining. Scott weaves a great story that combines real life situations, problems, difficulties and concerns with fictional characters that are so realistic and believable that you will feel as if they aren't fictional characters at all. I also love the bit of humor and playfulness that Scott injects the story and all the interaction between the characters with.
I absolutely fell in love with these characters, Rowe is amazing, she has gone through a huge, traumatic, life altering and slightly debilitating ordeal and is working, albeit slowly, to get through it and to the other side. Rowe wants desperately to work through her problems and be "normal" and starting college in a state as far as she could find from her home town and her family felt like the best way to start. That's where she grows as a person and starts to come out of her protective shell. Rowe makes friends in the most unlikely of people such as the hot brothers down the hall Nate and Ty, the slightly slutty sorority sister Paige and not so unlikely people like her roommate Cass.
Nate is amazing, he is sweet, caring, kind and compassionate, not to mention one heck of a looker. He is fulfilling a dream he didn't know he wanted, and meets Rowe. Nate brings out the real Rowe and makes her feel alive again. He loves her with such tenderness, is extremely gentle with Rowe and never pushes her too much too fast. Nate looks past all of Rowe's scars, fears, and the past she un-wantingly clings to and loves the her she hides from herself and he does everything he can to bring her to the surface. Nate is the perfect companion for Rowe and as she tries to deny how she feels she finds herself falling in love with the guy she is best friends with.
I did however find this story a bit on the mushy romantic side, don't misunderstand me, I LOVE sappy romance but this college love was very high school dramatic. It is most likely due to the fact that Rowe didn't have a typical high school experience therefore she is a bit stunted when it comes to emotional experience. On the other hand the immaturity that this brings to the book made me laugh and engaged me in a way I'm not sure I would have otherwise experienced. So I wouldn't say it was a bad thing nor did it hender the novel, it's story line, or the characters in any way.
I found myself sucked into the budding love between Nate and Rowe and I loved Ty and Cass even more so I am really excited to read the follow up novel about Ty. This was a wonderful novel written by a fantastic writer and I look forward to reading more by Ginger Scott in the future. Anyone reading this that enjoys reading about a girl with a complicated, sad and difficult to overcome past falling in love with a goofy, lovable college athlete that understands pain and loss, please give this a read!
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