Angel Falls

Angel Falls

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When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together and care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors tell him not to expect a recovery, but he believes that love can accomplish what medical science cannot. Daily he sits at her bedside, telling her stories of the precious life they have built...more
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Published September 27th 2005 by Ballantine Books (first published March 21st 2000)
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Forgoing high drama and dysfunctional elements, Angel Falls takes a conservative approach and focuses on a simple, yet profound issue that is still deeply moving and emotional. Thus, begins the story of a couple who learn what love truly means, and deciding whether it is enough.

Set in Angel Falls, a geographically appealing, small anonymous town where the people are the heart of the community. It is a place where everyone knows everyone and where families are raised. It is also a place for esca...more
Melissa
Angel Falls was a challenging book to write at the time. In it, the heroine is in a coma for most of the story, and while she in unconscious, she remains central to the plot. This book was, in simplest terms, a love triangle. That was the surface story, at least. But what I really loved about it, was that it examined two completely different kinds of love, and reminded the reader that a woman can be in love with two different men in her life…and that ultimately, a choice has to be made. For Mich...more
Stein
==A literary paint-by-numbers==
The plotline of this book is built totally on the premise that an educated medical doctor, Liam, meets and marries a newly divorced nurse, Mikaela (Mike)--a single mother--without having any knowledge of her or her previous husband's names, identities or circumstances. His new wife does not disclose any information about her previous life (as Kayla) and incredibly has concealed for ten years the identity of her first husband, Julian, not only to Liam but also to th...more
Stephany G
This book was good, not my favorite, but still pretty good. I felt like I have read it before, not impossible since I have only started keeping up with the books I've read this last couple of years. Mike (aka Mikalya), is thrown from her horse and slips into a coma. If that sounds slow, it sort of was. Anyway her husband Liam, along with her mother and children, deal with the pain this disruption has caused in their lives. Liam discovers his wife was married to her first love, a superstar actor,...more
Trisha
***Warning don't read this review if you haven't read the book, has a lot of spoilers***

Another amazing book by Kristin Hannah after reading Night road I got hooked on this author and wanted to read another book of hers. I loved Liam, he is absolutely amazing he loved his wife so much that he calls her first husband, that must have hurt him so much thinking she didn't love him as much as Julian and she still loves him. He was very strong, he really loved her, Like I was thinking he will blow up...more
Jen
This book was heartbreaking, and frustrating. Kristin Hannah is a gifted writer. Angel Falls is the story of Mikaela Campbell. She's a wife and mother and ends up in a coma after an accident. While she's in the coma, her family does everything to try to wake her up, but nothing works until her husband Liam discovers the identity of her first husband, a famous Hollywood actor, Julian True. It's his name that Mikaela responds too and as a result, Liam contacts Julian in the hopes that he can bring...more
Monkeyface
Listened to Angel Fallsby Kristin Hannah
Angel Falls is a dramatic, richly nuanced story of an ordinary man who makes an extraordinary decision and gambles with a thorny, painful question. Michaela, beloved wife and mother of two, lies in a coma. It is now up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors have told Liam not to expect a recovery, but he maintains hope that love can accomplish what medicine cannot. Day after day, he sits...more
Leslie
An older title, published in 2000, I actually read the pb version but I don't think that's a big deal.

I really wanted to like this book. I had never read Kristin Hannah's work before.It was a fast read because I wanted to see how it all turned out. However, I found it meandering and repetitive when the characters went into their own versions of what was going on in their lives. I skipped though much of those parts when I was reading things I'd already read previously. I found Mikaela's relation...more
Tiffany
As a forewarning, my reviews are more for me than being helpful to someone else. I'm not one for romance novels, which is exactly what this is, but it ended up being one of those books that came at the right time and the right place. The overall theme is finally letting go of someone that you waited years for -- someone that you held up above the world -- and being able to see that person for who they are; not that someone worth being the benchmark for all your other relationships. I have that s...more
Alice
I was cautious to pursue another Kristin Hannah book, after listening to an audio CD of Firefly Lane, which made me bawl like a little baby. I wasn't up for that kind of emotional wringer.

But this one intrigued me. A woman goes into a coma, and her husband finds out about the past she hasn't wanted to talk about with him. Not only was her first husband handsome and charming, he's arguably the most famous actor in Hollywood (the fictional Julian True).

It didn't sound half as heart-wrenching as Fi...more
Teresa in Ohio
This author is highly recommended on goodreads, so I gave it a try. Mikela is a loving wife with two children and suffers a horrible accident that leaves her in a coma. Her husband who is a doctor understands she may never wake up but he never gives up hope. He talks to her, brings her favorite items and has the kids visit. One day he discovers a link to her past and it shocks him. This is where the story gave me pause, it was too easy to reach her past and have her first husband come to see her...more
Debbie
3.5 stars

A quick, easy love story that explores the difference between real love and commitment vs. being "in love." Mikaela suffers a severe head injury and is in a coma for over a month. During that time her husband learns of her life before him, that she has kept hidden, and has to make some tough decisions that will have a lasting impact. Food for thought - “Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life … Each decision se...more
Marta
This is my second Kristin Hannah book (I've read "winter garden"). I would not say that it is as good as wittier garden, but it had me choked up and blurry eyed a couple of times.

Mike finds herself in a coma after she falls off her horse. Her husband Liam is left holding their family together and doing everything he can to keep his faith/hope up that Mike will come out of the coma. However, in an attempt to get Mike back he has to unravel his wides future and the little secrets that very well c...more
Gorjaeous
I have never heard of Kristin Hannah as an author nor have I known of this particular book. I only knew about this when I checked my book recommendations from Goodreads based on the ones I have added on my bookshelf. Boy was this a pleasant surprise.

This novel had the vibe of Jude Deveraux’s Holly because it was set during the holidays in Seattle. Anyway, the story evolved when Mikaela Luna-Campbell had a terrible accident, putting her into a coma for a month or so. As a loving and dedicated hus...more
Amy Bailey
I think perhaps my honeymoon with Kristin Hannah is over. My interest in her novels was first peaked by Winter Garden, which I found to be quite spell-binding. Since then, I've tackled her novels with high hopes and, though I liked some of them, none has compared to my first experience with her. This one, I think, was probably the most disappointing. It was sugary-sweet and Hallmark movie-esque. That doesn't always bother me, but this time I just found it to get on my nerves. I didn't find mysel...more
Stacey
This book was a quick, emotional read. Kristin Hannah is very good at invoking emotion from her readers. The book itself was lacking something. I think the storyline felt more than a bit unbelievable. Mikeala had an accident that left her in a coma. During the coma secrets emerged about her life that her family had to work through. It was hard to me to relate to her secrets and how she could keep those from her husband of 10 years and her children. I think the plot was a bit too predictable, a b...more
Rene
Angel Falls was just my kind of book. An easy LifeTime-Movie-Like read good for a quiet Saturday night. And that's exactly when I read it, pretty much the whole way through and finished at 4 in the morning. Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite authors because you can so easily picture every story she creates. You put yourself in her character's shoes and it's so easy to follow along. Unlike most of her other books I've read Angel Falls is mostly from a male character's point of view. I liked tha...more
Mary Balconi
Normally I really enjoy Hannah's books. However this one really didn't do much for me. While the plot was good and it outlined a good story, you think the main character will be Mike and it ends up being the Liam and kids. While accidents can happen any time any place, I just had a hard time buying the "she was married to a major movie star" idea and had a child with him and he basically abandoned. I felt the story did touch on some major issues of love and commitment but it in a way that she he...more
Gina
Mikaela Cambell has fallen off her horse and has suffered a traumatic brain injury and lies in a coma. Her husband, Liam, and children, Jacey and Bret, are praying for a miracle. Liam spends night and day at her bedside waiting for her to wake. In the meantime, he also learns the truth about her previous marriage. She was married to Julian True, a movie star, and she has held on to that love for the length of her marriage to Liam. Liam makes the difficult decision to call Julian to help because...more
aPriL MEOWS often with scratching
Easy fast read, but could have been shorter and still good. Well- written otherwise. The focus is love, marriage, evolution of love, commitment, love of family life. A family is stressed by a dreadful horse jumping accident on their farm in rural Washington state that results in a head injury with coma. People realize they don't love each other the right way and upon that realization everything changes and choices have to be made. It's a small book, an even smaller tight look at one issue, a mom...more
Kate
Usually I love Kristin Hannah. I am a very loyal reader and once I find someone I gravitate toward I read as much of their work as I can.

This is my 5th or 6th Hannah book and I don't know if it's her or me but, she's slipping. The first book of her's that I read was "The Magic Hour" and I remember it being a profound, well written story and from then on I was hooked.

My biggest problem with this book is that it's not her typical storytelling, it was a virtual "who's who" of faith and god and pray...more
Sharon Seng
Mikaela Campbell has a riding accident and suffers a traumatic brain injury and slides into a coma. Liam, her husband, talks to her in the hope of waking her up. It isn't until he mentions her first husband's name that she responds. Liam suspects Mikaela has never stopped loving Julian, a famous movie star, but calls him to come help. Mickaela slowly wakes but only remembers her Julian. As she recovers her memories she realizes that what she thought was love, wasn't.

Once again Kristin Hannah wri...more
Kathryn
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Amy
I really liked this book. I appreciated the love that Liam had for his wife Mikaela-- especially when she was still hoping that her 1st love, Julian, who was the Brad Pitt of Hollywood, would come back for her.

When she ended up in a coma, and she seemed to respond to Julian's name, I so admired the love that Liam had for his wife that he would risk inviting back the man that kept part of Mikaels reserved from Liam in the hopes that having Julian would wake her from her coma. The fear that she w...more
Rosemary
Sep 27, 2009 Rosemary rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Rosemary by: from the San Antonio library
Here is something profound.

"I missed you." "How was it that the profound simplicity of those words had the power to rock her world? Never again would you lose sight of what mattered, not for a day or an hour or even a minute. She would treasure every instant of her life from now on, for she knew something now, a deep truth that had eluded her all of her life. Love wasn't a great, burning bushfire that swept across your soul and charred you beyond recognition. It was being there, simply that. It...more
Kristin
I loved this novel. It sucked me in completely and I read it from cover to cover at one time. The story was about a mom, mikaela, falling off her horse and going into a coma. Her husband liam, a doctor, doesn't give up hope that she will wake up and recover and spends hours everyday telling her of their life together hoping that love will be the key to waking her up. He finds out about her hidden past and must cope with what her past means about the life they have been leading. Meanwhile he has...more
Ruth
Mikaela, wife of Dr. Liam Campbell is injured in a riding accident. She is in a coma and not responding. Liam is by her side - talking, playing music, telling her the stories of their life but nothing is working. One day he discovers a pillow case from her past which tells him things that he never knew about his wife's first marriage. Deeply in love with her he encourages his mother-in-law to talk to her about her first marriage since it was her first husband's name which has caused the only rea...more
Emily
This book should be classified more as "inspirational romance" than romance. It is heavily tinged with Christian overtones and contains absolutely no steamy scenes.
Mikaela Campbell sustains a head injury in the first chapter and spends the majority of the book in a coma. Her husband of 10 years, Liam, and her children, Jacey (16) and Bret (9) share their memories with her trying to wake her up. When Liam discovers she was married before, to famous movie star Julian True, and that she responds sl...more
Linda
How interesting this book is. The majority of the book describes the life of two children, Bret and Jacey, and a husband, Liam. They learn about comas, closed-head injury's, and their mother/wife's past. The central focus is on the person in the coma but how the family responds to it intrigues the reader. Add in drops of information about Mikaela who is in the coma then reveal her past that her family has no clue about and it is a tangled web of mystery. While I could read this book about a woma...more
Tonya
I have become a HUGE Kristin Hannah fan. I know that this book was written 10 years ago. That being said, this was an OK book. Not my favorite, but a good romantic read.

I think we all think about our first loves, and Mike is no different. However, what she never planned on is having an accident on a horse, going into coma and her husband Liam finding out exactly who was her ex-husband. He knew she had been married, that is how Jacey came along. But he didn't know it was a famous movie star, Juli...more
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Kristin Hannah is the New York Times bestselling author of eighteen novels, including the blockbuster Firefly Lane and Night Road. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii with her husband.
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