"Don't judge someone because of their family..."
Even If I Fall
By: Abigail Johnson
Genres: Coming of Age | Young Adult | New Adult
Posted: March 21, 2019
After that, everything changes for Brooke and her family. Her friends want nothing to do with her and it is the same for the other family members. Brooke's only friend is Maggie, and she knows nothing about the murder since she and her mother have just moved here.
Then things change again... While driving, Brooke sees someone on the side of the road. It is raining out so she stops to see if she can help. It ends up being Heath, Calvin's brother, and both of them are unsure how to act around one another. They keep running into each other and start to form a friendship against all odds. Heath agrees to help her with her lifts for the ice skating tryouts. At first, they hardly speak to each other. Now they are talking about what happened between their brothers and how both of them feel completely alone. Both know that both families would have a fit if they knew that these two were now friends.
Abigail Johnson's EVEN IF I FALL is, at times, very hard to read. Not because it is not good, more because of the sorrow that both of these young adults are going through. Johnson shows how people will judge an entire family on something one of them does. EVEN IF I FALL really took me by surprise. This story shows how no matter how you might feel about someone at first, maybe once you get to know them you will change.
Book Summary
Brooke and Heath should never have become friends, let alone fallen in love
A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social pariahs, broken and unable to console one another. Brooke’s only solace remains the ice-skating rink where she works, but she no longer lets herself dream about a future skating professionally.
When Brooke encounters Calvin’s younger brother, Heath, on the side of the road and offers him a ride, everything changes. She needs someone to talk to…and so does Heath. No one else understands what it’s like. Her brother, alive but gone; his brother, dead but everywhere. Soon, they’re meeting in secret, despite knowing that both families would be horrified if they found out. In the place of his anger and her guilt, something frighteningly tender begins to develop, drawing them ever closer together.
But when a new secret comes out about the murder, Brooke has to choose whose pain she’s willing to live with—her family’s or Heath’s. Because she can’t heal one without hurting the other.
by: Abigail Johnson
Inkyard Press
January 1, 2019
On Sale: January 8, 2019
Featuring:
352 pages
ISBN: 1335541551
EAN: 9781335541550
Kindle: B07D8V4C2K
Hardcover / e-Book