I really don’t like leaving bad reviews but I feel like I have to say something abt this book. It wasn’t “bad” per say - it was just lacking emotion, it was confusing, the people’s reactions to the end of the world were unrealistic. I wasn’t invested in any of the storylines other than the one about Zan and Leo, and I still disliked the end of that part with Nick. Idk, I know I’m not making much sense so I’ll just stop here. Maybe don’t pick this one up, I was pretty let down.

3.5 I think that the book was good, although there were some parts that could have been better. It was a little slow to begin with but I really enjoyed that there was more than one perspective, and how each of these teens dealt with the asteroid. I really liked how all of the characters are intertwined with one another. Also i enjoyed that they all had things they wanted to do before possibly coming to an end. I think that if it didn't switch to each character so quickly, it would be a little better. Overall I really liked how each character knew that there was one thing they needed to do towards the end of the novel, and the fact that they all had to face something big in their life.

Tumble and Fall is not like any book out there right now, and if you read the description you will understand why I say this. YA Fiction ha many genres and one of the most popular is dystopian. But honestly I have found in the last year that the genre has become stagnate. But Tumble and Fall takes that genre and turns it on its head. It combines both contemporary and the threat of a dystopian society and creates a book that defies the odds.

What I loved most about this book was the way it was written. We meet four very different character, which in turn go through very different situations. But what I loved was that in the end, they all ended up with the same outlook. All of these characters are threatened by an asteroid that is on a collision course with the United States. And no one knows what that will mean for humanity so what we read are the final days before the end happens.

When you have multiple POVs you are bound to have favorites and I know I did. Sienna was one because of her story and her fight for individuality even though she was just released from a mental hospital. Another was Zan because of the tragedy she faced and the horrors of not having answers to the questions you most desperately want answered.

The writing was flawless, I wanted to crawl into the book and stay there because the prose was so beautiful. There was not a character that felt underdeveloped and there was not a plot line that felt unfinished. The only think i did not like was the end. There was no answer to the ultimate question that was asked throughout the book. But then again I know why the author chose to go the ambiguous route. It allows for readers to create their own ending, whether that he happy or sad.

Everything about Tumble and Fall is unique, and honestly it is a book that all dystopian and contemporary lovers will love because all the elements of a great story are there: great characters, great conflict, and ultimately a great message- that family, no matter how broken they may be, will always be there. Until the very end.

So, not my fave.

A. It took forever to get interesting. Interesting being a relative term.
B. I thought, mistakenly, that the characters would actually interact. I was wrong.
C. Zan.
1. What kind of crap name is that, anyway?
2. Her extremely unhealthy obsession with her dead boyfriend.
D. The ending. Okay, I understand that a lot of great endings end in ambiguous ways, letting you as a reader decide what really happens. But this is not a great book. I guess writing the world getting blown to smithereens by asteroid chunks isn't the warm-fuzzy ending they were going for.
E. What the heck happened to Nick? I would have much rather read about him than Zan.
F. Would it really have been such a big deal to throw comatose mommy in the backseat with her breathing tube in order to Sophie home with Caden? It's only THE FREAKING END OF THE WORLD.

So, yeah. Don't waste your time.

Review to come

I picked up TUMBLE AND FALL after watching KNOWING one night -- because I have a strange fascination with storylines involving the entire universe imploding by the ending. And, the description of TUMBLE AND FALL on the back made it sound like a fun, apocalyptic tale from three separate (but intermingling) perspectives -- ultimately ending in a huge BANG, of course.

Well, don't quite be fooled by the promises of a killer asteroid doomed to obliterate humanity in exactly seven days -- because it never gets quite that exciting here, unfortunately.

Now, the asteroid part is true, in theory. From the first page, the reader is bluntly educated that the world will soon be ending and that there is nothing that anyone can do to stop the impact of this massive asteroid (AGH, I can't even remember its name! Persephone? Not particularly memorable, I suppose!). We are promised that the results will be immediate and devastating, and then we are promptly introduced to three uninteresting teenagers who don't, honestly, really seem all THAT phased by the news that they have only seven days left to live.

In fact, NOBODY really seems to be extraordinarily panicked -- there is not mass chaos in the streets, nobody is on fire, and all of the stores have yet to be looted by crazed lunatics who are desperately digging underground caves and tornado shelters to give themselves a last glimmer of hope.

No, instead, these folks are laying at the beach, getting a tan -- chasing cute boys -- you know, normal everyday end of the world type things, right?

So, back to the characters. We have Sienna, who has recently been released from a mental institution or rehab of some sort, because of her severe depression, and she is horrified to learn that her father is marrying a woman that he barely knows, on the beach, right before the end of the world. Sienna meets a cute boy, who is trying to build an ark (because a killer asteroid wouldn't hurt an ark (?!?!)), and leaves her family to seek a relationship with him. Then there is Zan, a young woman who is heartbroken by the mysterious death of her boyfriend -- who left behind a book with a secret phone number and a strange girl's phone number. (But don't get too excited for a scandal here -- boyfriend Leo was nothing less than a teenage saint of sorts!) Finally, we meet Caden, who was strangely drugged and kidnapped by his wacko father -- who, for some reason, was holding a woman hostage to prevent her from seeing her dead mother -- and who ends up buying his son a hooker. Yeah, I'm just not sure...

I kept waiting for the three stories to become intertwined at some point but (spoiler alert?) -- it never happened. There wasn't a lot of character growth here, unfortunately, and the whole asteroid nightmare really seemed to be more of an afterthought than anything else. Really, TUMBLE AND FALL is *not* so much a story about the end of the world as much as it is a weird, rambling contemporary story about three misguided teenagers who don't quite know what they want out of life.

Don't get me wrong -- it wasn't a horrible book. It just wasn't.... good.

But, to be fair, I did love the very end, even though I didn't get to see explosions. I'm a sucker for an open-ending that hints at a fun little picture of ultimate devastation.

If you go into TUMBLE AND FALL knowing that it is a semi-touchy feely contemporary novel, that isn't really high in action, intrigue, or development -- but one that occasionally mentions a killer asteroid -- I think you'd be fine with this novel for the most part. Personally, I wasn't all that impressed, but as always, your results may vary.

Wow. This is my first two-star rating. Part of me wants to give it 1 1/2...

I'm sorry. I just couldn't get into this book. I'm not sure why. I just thought it was a bit confusing, and slow, and uninteresting. It makes me sad that I didn't like it...I finished it, though, which makes me happy. I didn't give up on it.

I hated the ending, though.

Sorry, this book just didn't do it for me.

*2.5