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A review by novelheartbeat
Tumble & Fall by Alexandra Coutts
Did not finish book.
I made it about halfway through this one before I had to give up.
My main problem was that it was boring. Excruciatingly so.
The prose was dry and I found it impossible to connect with. I didn't give a crap about anything that was happening or any of the characters.
Speaking of the characters, they were all the same to me. There were too many names to remember, and that's all they were to me: Names. I didn't feel like they had their own personalities and I had trouble telling any of them apart. I kept having to go back through the story to figure out who was who. Plus, there were not one, not two, but THREE different points of view. Sometimes multiple POVs works, but this time it just didn't. It was cumbersome and confusing, and I could hardly tell the difference between the three speakers.
Plus, the happenings were just....meh. I don't know how else to describe them. Caden was kidnapped by his long lost father, and said father drags him to throw a baseball, even though they both hate sports. Huh?
Zan was fresh out of some place called the House (or something?) - a mental hospital, I'm assuming? - meets this kid Owen that she may or may not have had childhood memories with but can't remember, then immediately after meeting him gets naked with him to skinny dip and make out (and 'wrap her legs around him.' While they're NAKED). He seemed to know her but SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE WAS. I was like, what the eff...? Did I miss something??
Wait wait wait. No, I lied. That was Sienna. Zan was the one that lost her love interest and found a receipt with some chick's phone number in his book, then teams up with some dude Nick (not sure what he is to her?) to find out what really happened when he died.
Like I said, it was confusing. I had trouble keeping the stories separate, and because they all had the same names in them (I'm guessing all the stories tie together in the end or something), I struggled even more. I didn't see a point to what I was reading and like I said, I was bored to tears.
I don't see the point in continuing, either.
I skipped to the end out of morbid curiosity...they all find happiness and forgiveness in the end. Blah, blah, blah.