Book Review: Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang



Synopsis: 

On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton’s laws of motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road. 

Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces together the short and devastating life of Meridian High’s most popular junior girl. Mass, acceleration, momentum, force—Liz didn’t understand it in physics, and even as her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn’t understand it now. How do we impact one another? How do our actions reverberate? What does it mean to be a friend? To love someone? To be a daughter? Or a mother? Is life truly more than cause and effect? Amy Zhang’s haunting and universal story will appeal to fans of Lauren Oliver, Gayle Forman, and Jay Asher.


Review:

Liz Emerson tries to kill herself. It is for you to find out why. 

While reading this one, all I could think of was the quote by Marilyn Monroe: "Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together." Liz Emerson is broken and yet nobody can see that. Broken in a way that she broke most of the people she met. Some are intentional and most are accidental. She wrecked people, and of all the people, herself was the one she wrecked most. It could've been in the words we said - or those we never said. We are all like Emerson. We hurt people unconsciously; even those people we care most and love- especially those people. Some people died because the world did not deserve them. Liz Emerson on the other hand did not deserve the world. Liz Emerson was never Liz Emerson. She was never true, there were things she could've said; could've did and things she shouldn't. Liz is also scared but nobody can see that. Well, Liam could. But did he do anything about it?


This book is so beautiful. It is filled with almosts. It is filled with lessons; of regrets. Of things we should do and shouldn't. Amy Zhang is such a brilliant author. And I think 5 stars wouldn't be enough for this one.

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