FALLING INTO YOU (Falling, #1) by Jasinda Wilder

Falling Into You by Jasinda Wilder
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

3.5 Stars

I liked it. From the beginning, when the story is told from the past about Kyle and Nell, I found myself a little bored. I think I may be too old to care about two sixteen year olds and their sex life. Then their story takes a turn that wrenches your heart out and I truly cried for them.





I was confused about Nell and Colton. She says to her mother that she's only met him twice. But she grew up with Kyle as they were only three days apart, their families were friends, they basically lived next door to each other and Colton is only five years older than the two of them. So how is it possible that she have only met him twice?

I wondered if Nell would have felt the same way about Colton if she's been around him before things took a turn for the worse or after her hormones kicked in.

Two years later when Nell and Colton run into each other, their connection is interesting. I'm not sure I understand their communication through song, but I like the idea of it. I don't think Nell is saying what he's saying and it's not until his song about the kiss in the sand that she fully understands and runs away.

I really don't understand why Colton thinks Nell is going to be the one to leave him in a heap of despair when all is said and done. I get that she's damaged and that he sees that, but I don't understand his immediate thought that she will hurt him.

I also don't understand how Colton, a white privileged boy from the suburbs of Detroit now sounds like like a hood from the ghetto. I get that it where he's been but I just don't get the devolving into that speak when he's with Nell.

Okay, now that I've said everything that I don't get and you can kind of understand why I didn't love this book. I will talk about what I did like.

I love how Colton's immediate reaction to Nell is protective. He senses the same pain in her that's in him. His instinct is to take care of her, not just for Kyle but for himself. I love how he's pulled himself out of the nothing he was left in and made something of himself. I love that he has an artistic outlet that brings him such peacefulness and joy. I love how this has brought Nell to her release, though she doesn't realize it at first.

I love how Nell didn't let her feelings for her first love go even though it was time to move on. There would always be a connection to him. I love how she was with Colton. She let herself go, she opened up and grew up.

This was a very sweet story.

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