It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets ...
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Feb 20, 2012
Regina
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So there is a disease spreading in a geographically isolated community, an island. The setting is perfect for an apocalyptic event. Kind of like how an abandoned summer camp is perfect for a horror movie -- all alone, set away from society. Gradually the island is cut off from the rest of the world and as the title suggests, not so gradually society unravels. This had all the makings to be a great read. But something kept it from being great; it was, however, more than just an average read.
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Aug 18, 2011
Ashley
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4.5 stars
In the end I was completely enthralled with this one. It had a bit of a slower start, but it becomes "unputdownable" toward the middle. In the beginning I was iffy about the way the story is told (Kaelyn is writing letters to a former best friend/crush), but in the end I really loved it. It just felt so honest and straightforward.
I’m pretty fascinated with disease and the way epidemics spread, so it was really awesome (in a sad, horrible way) to read a More...
In the end I was completely enthralled with this one. It had a bit of a slower start, but it becomes "unputdownable" toward the middle. In the beginning I was iffy about the way the story is told (Kaelyn is writing letters to a former best friend/crush), but in the end I really loved it. It just felt so honest and straightforward.
I’m pretty fascinated with disease and the way epidemics spread, so it was really awesome (in a sad, horrible way) to read a More...
Jan 19, 2012
Donna
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When I requested The Way We Fall from NetGalley, I was under the assumption that this was another dystopian or post-apocalyptic read, this is not exactly the case. The Way We Fall is set on an island that is quarantined because of an outbreak of a dangerous flu-like virus that is killing people. It is never made clear whether this virus is world-wide or confined only to this island so I don’t know that I would describe this as either dystopian or post-apocalyptic. However, this is just the first
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Jan 24, 2012
Charlotte
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I absolutely loved the way this book was written. The journal style gave us one person's (Kaelyn) perspective of the events, while tying them in with the emotional situation she is going through with the person she is writing to (Leo, her former best friend).
I thought this was a cleverly written story. The accounts Kaelyn gives of the sequence of events that occur as a virus begins killing off people on the island where she lives, are real and terrifying. She describes them in startl More...
I thought this was a cleverly written story. The accounts Kaelyn gives of the sequence of events that occur as a virus begins killing off people on the island where she lives, are real and terrifying. She describes them in startl More...
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Jan 11, 2012
Nicola
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The Way We Fall is a captivating and scary novel told through letters. Kaelyn's island has fallen victim to a deadly virus that is quickly sweeping its way through the population. Kaelyn tells this story with letters to an ex-friend of hers who now lives off the island. I thought the letters were heartfelt and well told, but I didn't find Kaelyn's voice all that convincing. She just seemed so much younger than sixteen to me though this did get slightly better towards the end of the book.
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Aug 07, 2011
Maria
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Sixteen-year-old Kaelyn knows it's time to start facing her fears and tackling her insecurities when she lets the boy who was once her best friend leave for school abroad without even saying good-bye. But as an unfamiliar virus sweeps through their small island community, suddenly she's got a lot of good reasons to be scared. The doctors have no effective treatment, and patients are starting to die.
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Then the government quarantines the island in an attempt to contain the epidemic, More...
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Jan 30, 2012
Megan
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I won this in the Goodreads First reads giveaway, and woooow, is it an amazing book! I couldn't put it down :)
I love books like this: epidemics, diseases, etc - if you liked the movie Contagion or The Happening, you'll probably like this book :)
I found Kaelyn relatable, too, because I also struggle with anti social problems ;p
Here are the problems I had with it:
1) Leo > Gav, to me and I never really liked Tessa. (ESPESCIALLY when she got mad at Kaelyn More...
I love books like this: epidemics, diseases, etc - if you liked the movie Contagion or The Happening, you'll probably like this book :)
I found Kaelyn relatable, too, because I also struggle with anti social problems ;p
Here are the problems I had with it:
1) Leo > Gav, to me and I never really liked Tessa. (ESPESCIALLY when she got mad at Kaelyn More...
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Feb 20, 2012
Celine
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Review originally posted in: http://forget8me8not.blogspot.com.au/201...
Cover:
My review copy was the uncorrected proof edition so it didn't have a finalized cover but the cover that's supposed to be used is the picture on top and I really love the optical illusion and how the letters of the title seem to 'fall down'!
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An unstoppable virus. No way out.
After letting her bestfriend go, Kaelyn never thought her life would change drastically. A More...
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My review copy was the uncorrected proof edition so it didn't have a finalized cover but the cover that's supposed to be used is the picture on top and I really love the optical illusion and how the letters of the title seem to 'fall down'!
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An unstoppable virus. No way out.
After letting her bestfriend go, Kaelyn never thought her life would change drastically. A More...
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Jan 05, 2012
Lisa
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The Way We Fall is a dark dystopian that follows the spreading of an unknown virus. The novel is split into three parts - Symptoms, Quarantine, Mortality - making it obvious that many of the small town islanders won't come out unscathed. While I did have some issues with the book, I was impressed with how the story felt so realistic. Don't be looking for magical cures or rescue boats because they're not coming. Everyone's on their own and fig More...
The Way We Fall is a dark dystopian that follows the spreading of an unknown virus. The novel is split into three parts - Symptoms, Quarantine, Mortality - making it obvious that many of the small town islanders won't come out unscathed. While I did have some issues with the book, I was impressed with how the story felt so realistic. Don't be looking for magical cures or rescue boats because they're not coming. Everyone's on their own and fig More...
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Feb 21, 2012
Isamlq
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Bits had me bored, then moments had me terrified, but really a good deal of it had me mostly befuddled by how easily things devolved. By 'September 23’ something terrible (a couple of terrible something’s) had already taken place, yet there I was contemplating putting it down… because it was all just so slow and matter of fact. But little by little, it’s not the teenaged girl’s life that’s in my head but instead it’s what was going on around her.
Maybe it was just me, but how funny i More...
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Oct 10, 2011
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OVERALL RATING: Wavered on rating--I'd say it's a 3.5 stars
WHAT I LIKED: Eventually, The Way We Fall is a page-turner. By the middle of the book, I enjoyed telling my husband about the storyline and thought about it when I was not reading. The concept of a virus that wipes out almost everyone is frighteningly believable and could certainly happen any place, any time. I really did want to find out if they found a cure, and who More...
OVERALL RATING: Wavered on rating--I'd say it's a 3.5 stars
WHAT I LIKED: Eventually, The Way We Fall is a page-turner. By the middle of the book, I enjoyed telling my husband about the storyline and thought about it when I was not reading. The concept of a virus that wipes out almost everyone is frighteningly believable and could certainly happen any place, any time. I really did want to find out if they found a cure, and who More...
Jan 22, 2012
Lanora
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book review located here: http://onreading.tumblr.com/[return][ret... Kaelyn, she’s sixteen years old living in a remote island in Canada. Her best friend has just left her and they are no longer speaking. Suddenly an illness appears and people are being infected left and right.[return]Kaelyn is pretty likable. I sort of enjoyed reading about her character, as she reminded me of myself just a tiny bit. In high school, I did not have many friends and I was known as the “no speaking” girl. It
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Feb 22, 2012
Clementine
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This book just seemed like wasted potential to me. The premise is awesome: a virus that ravages an isolated island community. There's so much room for dark, twisted apocalyptic plot! It could even be a thriller!
As soon as I started reading it, I was disappointed. The beginning sets Kaelyn up as a shallow character who cares only about the most inconsequential teenage issues. It does improve from there, although the conversational tone bugged me a little. I do think that sort of tone is More...
As soon as I started reading it, I was disappointed. The beginning sets Kaelyn up as a shallow character who cares only about the most inconsequential teenage issues. It does improve from there, although the conversational tone bugged me a little. I do think that sort of tone is More...
Feb 15, 2012
Jodi
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I am afraid that I will be one of the lone voices saying that I didn't particularly care for The Way We Fall. The concept was very intriguing - a virus sweeps across a small Canadian island quickly taking lives before anyone can figure out what the cause is. However, I felt a little bored by it and I never developed a strong interest in the characters.
Kaelyn begins writing in a journal that she hopes to give to her once-best-friend, Leo when she sees him next. The journal star More...
Kaelyn begins writing in a journal that she hopes to give to her once-best-friend, Leo when she sees him next. The journal star More...
Feb 08, 2012
Anna (AnnaReads.com)
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AHHHHH!
This book is about a contagious disease that sweeps across a small island community (outside Canada maybe?)
Holy heck. Every cough had my hair standing on end. This is sort of an apocalypse book – it’s just a small area, but for this community, it’s as though the world were coming to an end. And, hello, no one is stepping in to save them! Where is the government? Or aid groups? Scary as hell.
So right in the middle of reading this suspenseful, thrilling book, I More...
This book is about a contagious disease that sweeps across a small island community (outside Canada maybe?)
Holy heck. Every cough had my hair standing on end. This is sort of an apocalypse book – it’s just a small area, but for this community, it’s as though the world were coming to an end. And, hello, no one is stepping in to save them! Where is the government? Or aid groups? Scary as hell.
So right in the middle of reading this suspenseful, thrilling book, I More...
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Feb 02, 2012
Alivia
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The Way We Fall is a pretty speedy read. I wouldn't call it fast paced, but I wouldn't call it slow either. It simply moved in a quick enough manner that kept me interested enough to finish the book in record time.
As you read in the synop, TWWF follows Kae and her 'diary entries' to her friend, Leo. It starts off like any other teen novel does that revolves around writing the story in a diary format- girls in school, family at home, how much she misses Leo, little normal things. Unt More...
As you read in the synop, TWWF follows Kae and her 'diary entries' to her friend, Leo. It starts off like any other teen novel does that revolves around writing the story in a diary format- girls in school, family at home, how much she misses Leo, little normal things. Unt More...
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Jan 27, 2012
Stephanie
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high school & up
Kaelyn lives on an island off the Canadian mainland. One of her oldest friends is on the mainland and she writes letters to him while an epidemic spreads across the island. None of the doctors on the island have any idea how to stop or even slow down the virus. It kills almost everyone who contracts the disease. Therefore, the mainland cuts off the island from leaving or entering. As the population dwindles the social order also begins breaking down.
I act More...
Kaelyn lives on an island off the Canadian mainland. One of her oldest friends is on the mainland and she writes letters to him while an epidemic spreads across the island. None of the doctors on the island have any idea how to stop or even slow down the virus. It kills almost everyone who contracts the disease. Therefore, the mainland cuts off the island from leaving or entering. As the population dwindles the social order also begins breaking down.
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Jan 24, 2012
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*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*
I discovered this book on NetGalley, which has become my favorite go-to place for new stuff. Dystopian is very hot right now, and The Way we Fall fits nicely into that category.
This book is told as a series of letters to Kaelyn’s one-time BFF with whom she had a falling out. The beginning of the book is rather slow and at some points it’s heartbreaking because you can feel how upset Kaelyn is and it’s quite clear More...
*Warning: possible spoilers ahead.*
I discovered this book on NetGalley, which has become my favorite go-to place for new stuff. Dystopian is very hot right now, and The Way we Fall fits nicely into that category.
This book is told as a series of letters to Kaelyn’s one-time BFF with whom she had a falling out. The beginning of the book is rather slow and at some points it’s heartbreaking because you can feel how upset Kaelyn is and it’s quite clear More...
Dec 05, 2011
Karina
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Oh my gosh this was soo good!
If there's one type of book I really like, besides fantasy, it has to be books like this. The kind with major catastrophy. Where all hope seems lost until one beacon appears and changes it all. It's different than dystopians, because stories like these take place in current times and manipulates current events and fears to entice the reader.
I could not stop reading this book! I'm sick with the flu and I still kept going even though I was half More...
If there's one type of book I really like, besides fantasy, it has to be books like this. The kind with major catastrophy. Where all hope seems lost until one beacon appears and changes it all. It's different than dystopians, because stories like these take place in current times and manipulates current events and fears to entice the reader.
I could not stop reading this book! I'm sick with the flu and I still kept going even though I was half More...
Dec 04, 2011
Wandering
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Kaelyn is living on an island that is part of Canada when an unknown virus suddenly appears. It starts out just seemingly like a cold - sneezing, coughing. But then it breaks down your social inhibitions. Then the hallucinating starts, and then you're dead. Kaelyn's father, a microbiologist, is working hard to find a vaccination, but things are getting bad fast. The island is quarantined, and even though they've been promised food and medicine from the government, no help seems to be coming.
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Dec 01, 2011
Donna
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Depressing, morbid, and oddly fascinating. I had a difficult time with this book.
The story is told in journal form written by Kaelyn, a 16 year old girl. She is writing to her estranged friend Leo. The setting is an island off coast of Canada.
Kae is attempting to turn around her life, she is a shy girl trying to become more outgoing. Then disaster strikes. In the form of a virulent plague/virus. The book follows Kae and her family through the epidemic. We see people dying More...
The story is told in journal form written by Kaelyn, a 16 year old girl. She is writing to her estranged friend Leo. The setting is an island off coast of Canada.
Kae is attempting to turn around her life, she is a shy girl trying to become more outgoing. Then disaster strikes. In the form of a virulent plague/virus. The book follows Kae and her family through the epidemic. We see people dying More...
Nov 15, 2011
Rebecca
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The Way We Fall is is a slow start but it picks up about a hundred pages in. Crewe has written differently than any other book I have read. The main character and narrator of the story Kaelyn writes, not letters really, but journal entries to her old best friend Leo. I liked this style of writing for The Way We Fall because I feel like I got to know Kaelyn’s character so much better from this narative.
Kaelyn is sixteen and has decided to put her old shy ways behind her and start tryi More...
Kaelyn is sixteen and has decided to put her old shy ways behind her and start tryi More...
Nov 07, 2011
S.A.
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I'd rather give this like 3.5 instead of just 3. The premise of this one was too good to pass up: a deadly virus hits an isolated island. I've been reading a lot of dystopias and this seemed right up my alley. I'm not a big fan of telling a whole novel in letters to a friend, but I kind of got used to it. Although I had to suspend belief a couple of times, thinking "Wow, this is one seriously detailed letter..." but that's just me and my personal preferences.I liked the way this diffe
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Oct 11, 2011
Rachael
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This year is going to be different. This year, Kaelyn promises herself that she’s going to talk to people at school and make more friends. Then everything will be better, and she’ll stop missing her best friend Leo as much. And Kaelyn’s right: this year is going to be a lot different—only, not in the way that she thinks. Instead, people start getting sick. The symptoms are strange and unlike those of anything doctors have really seen before, with uncontrollable itching, sneezing, and coughing;
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Jul 29, 2011
Marisa
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Thank you Disney-Hyperion for allowing me to read an ARC via NetGalley.
The Way We Fall is written from the perspective of 16 year old Kaelyn and consists of a series of letters in a diary-like format. Kaelyn begins writing in her diary to her former best friend Leo, who is away at school, when she moves back to their hometown on an island. Kaelyn and Leo have not spoken in a couple years due to a so-called fight, however Kaelyn believes that she can change into a better person, and by More...
The Way We Fall is written from the perspective of 16 year old Kaelyn and consists of a series of letters in a diary-like format. Kaelyn begins writing in her diary to her former best friend Leo, who is away at school, when she moves back to their hometown on an island. Kaelyn and Leo have not spoken in a couple years due to a so-called fight, however Kaelyn believes that she can change into a better person, and by More...
Jul 27, 2011
Shellie
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4.5 stars
Kaelyn lives on a remote island, she is a normal girl living a normal life, until one day things aren't normal on her island any longer. People are getting sick and dying, their island is quarantined, and then it starts to affect the people that she loves.
This is a great book about survival and enduring, even when things seem to hard to endure. There is of course some romance mixed in there, because really, what would a girl on a remote, quarantined island have More...
Kaelyn lives on a remote island, she is a normal girl living a normal life, until one day things aren't normal on her island any longer. People are getting sick and dying, their island is quarantined, and then it starts to affect the people that she loves.
This is a great book about survival and enduring, even when things seem to hard to endure. There is of course some romance mixed in there, because really, what would a girl on a remote, quarantined island have More...
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Jul 06, 2011
Elizabeth
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While the premise is a good one, I had a LOT of problems with this book. Supposedly, it is a collection of letters written to her former best friend Leo but except for the date entries, very few are in letter format and, instead, are written in novel type prose. This bothered me more than it should have I suppose but it drove me crazy that we were to believe these letters that were fully formed dialogue (with tags no less!) were simple notes written to a friend. Why not pick one or the other
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Jan 18, 2012
Kelly
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Kaelyn lives on an island. This is important, because when a virus starts getting people sick and then ultimately killing them, the government quarantines the island. No one knows exactly what's going on, and it doesn't take that long before they lose contact with the outside world (no TV, no internet). (They say that a sick worker wrecked a bunch of wires, but I'm pretty sure the government isolated them on purpose.) Not surprisingly, this situation brings out the best in some people and th
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Jan 10, 2012
Jessica
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Pros: quick, intense read; sympathetic protagonist who shows development; powerful, thought-provoking climax
Cons: very abrupt ending
For Parents: 1 swear word, some kissing, minor violence
Kayla and her family have moved back to the small island in the Canadian Maritimes where she grew up, after spending 5 years in Toronto. Her decision to become less stand offish comes at the wrong time as an unknown virus begins to spread around town. Her microbiologist fath More...
Cons: very abrupt ending
For Parents: 1 swear word, some kissing, minor violence
Kayla and her family have moved back to the small island in the Canadian Maritimes where she grew up, after spending 5 years in Toronto. Her decision to become less stand offish comes at the wrong time as an unknown virus begins to spread around town. Her microbiologist fath More...
Jul 13, 2011
Mrs. Evelyn
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The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
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“We’re on a cliff, all of us, and surviving isn’t about who’s the best or the brightest. It’s about holding on as long as we can, and trying, and failing, and trying again until we’ve inched a little closer to getting through this.” (Crewe, 297)
In Megan Crewe’s The Way We Fall, we meet sixteen-year-old Kaelyn who finds herself treading water in a dark pool of devastation, death, and heartbreak. The story ta More...
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“We’re on a cliff, all of us, and surviving isn’t about who’s the best or the brightest. It’s about holding on as long as we can, and trying, and failing, and trying again until we’ve inched a little closer to getting through this.” (Crewe, 297)
In Megan Crewe’s The Way We Fall, we meet sixteen-year-old Kaelyn who finds herself treading water in a dark pool of devastation, death, and heartbreak. The story ta More...
