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Falling Through the Cracks
What if you were a speech therapist responsible for two elementary school girls who couldn’t talk and you discovered something horrible had happened to make them that way? Then what if you found out they couldn’t speak because of you? Falling Through the Cracks is a novel about rebuilding a family after a murder. Solving two mysteries (one about adoption and one about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and falling in love are not part of Angel Martin’s plans when the Arizona speech therapist and Improv actress moves to Georgia. However, hearing a child chanting in the dark, “The knife is in his back. The blood is on the floor,” catapults her into action.
302 pages, Paperback
Published November 12, 2009
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January 8, 2011
This is probably a tangential start for a review - getting around the fact that I have a piss poor memory for books I've read (except some!) and movies I've seen - which is probably one of the reasons I'm obsessing on getting all my books documented on Goodreads and making myself write reviews ...
BUT in trying to refresh myself on the subject of my friend Janice Pulliam's first novel (which I remember liking a lot and which seemed to be getting good reviews on Amazon.com) I started flipping through the pages randomly and just reading quick blurbs. I noticed something interesting right away: that everything I ran into seemed to be PEOPLE. Characters interacting, talking, in situations... Now one thing I've noticed about myself and my reading favorites over the years is that what really makes a book stand out for me over time is SETTING, a strong sense of place. With some books, like with some dreams, I can put myself back in that place, that time, that feeling about the time and place: the season, the atmosphere, the natural world around - or even the hulks of buildings and tunneled halls, the lakes and streams: you get the picture. And that is what it comes to: THE PICTURE!
This is not such a great review specifically for Falling Through the Cracks but is more or less a revelation to myself for what makes a book really stand out and become memorable to me. So maybe it is also a lesson to be learned in terms of WRITING. You don't GET the actual PICTURE when it is just people talking without the strong atmospheric background description.
BUT in trying to refresh myself on the subject of my friend Janice Pulliam's first novel (which I remember liking a lot and which seemed to be getting good reviews on Amazon.com) I started flipping through the pages randomly and just reading quick blurbs. I noticed something interesting right away: that everything I ran into seemed to be PEOPLE. Characters interacting, talking, in situations... Now one thing I've noticed about myself and my reading favorites over the years is that what really makes a book stand out for me over time is SETTING, a strong sense of place. With some books, like with some dreams, I can put myself back in that place, that time, that feeling about the time and place: the season, the atmosphere, the natural world around - or even the hulks of buildings and tunneled halls, the lakes and streams: you get the picture. And that is what it comes to: THE PICTURE!
This is not such a great review specifically for Falling Through the Cracks but is more or less a revelation to myself for what makes a book really stand out and become memorable to me. So maybe it is also a lesson to be learned in terms of WRITING. You don't GET the actual PICTURE when it is just people talking without the strong atmospheric background description.
November 23, 2011
Interesting twist to this story set in Athens.
May 24, 2014
Interesting story line that kept my attention through to the end. Happily ever after ending.
March 15, 2015
This was well written and fun to read. I hope the author publishes more !
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