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A review by pil4r
Falling into Place by Amy Zhang
5.0
I don’t know where to start. Just wow.
"Falling into place" is nothing I expected it to be. It’s not just a kind of Looking for Alaska/13 reasons why mix, it is a lot more.
The plot, suicide themed, might seem quite overrated and overused but Amy Zhang made the reading experience a completely different one.
For starters, the non-lineal events' development sucesses due to the titles of the chapters and the intense (but not at all dense) writing and plotting. Because things are not narrated chronologically in this book, but the whole books follows certain line that relates a memory to another or something else. It just had the perfect sense to me.
About characters, holy crap, it was amazing. There was not a dull character in this book, the construction of backstories and their actions just turned out so efficiently, one can appreciate different dimensions of each character. Also, I loved how it was clear Amy didn’t want the readers to love Liz but just to get to know her and maybe not connect with her but understand her actions.
Though the narrator was not clear at the beginning, it just worked. It was quite predictable, and I loved how omniscient it was but how deeply focused on Liz's pov it was, too.
Lastly, the contents of the book, the message, the one I got, it was so interesting and beautiful, sort of sad but sort of poetic, too. I loved how the whole story was so differently outlined, it made it so easy to follow and so painfully hard to stop reading.
I don't know if this whole review made any sense,but my excuse is I'm still quite affected by the ending (which I still don't know how I feel about).
It's impossible for any part of myself to give this mind-blowing and heart-wrenching story, "Falling into place" less than five huge stars.
"Falling into place" is nothing I expected it to be. It’s not just a kind of Looking for Alaska/13 reasons why mix, it is a lot more.
The plot, suicide themed, might seem quite overrated and overused but Amy Zhang made the reading experience a completely different one.
For starters, the non-lineal events' development sucesses due to the titles of the chapters and the intense (but not at all dense) writing and plotting. Because things are not narrated chronologically in this book, but the whole books follows certain line that relates a memory to another or something else. It just had the perfect sense to me.
About characters, holy crap, it was amazing. There was not a dull character in this book, the construction of backstories and their actions just turned out so efficiently, one can appreciate different dimensions of each character. Also, I loved how it was clear Amy didn’t want the readers to love Liz but just to get to know her and maybe not connect with her but understand her actions.
Though the narrator was not clear at the beginning, it just worked. It was quite predictable, and I loved how omniscient it was but how deeply focused on Liz's pov it was, too.
Lastly, the contents of the book, the message, the one I got, it was so interesting and beautiful, sort of sad but sort of poetic, too. I loved how the whole story was so differently outlined, it made it so easy to follow and so painfully hard to stop reading.
I don't know if this whole review made any sense,but my excuse is I'm still quite affected by the ending (which I still don't know how I feel about).
It's impossible for any part of myself to give this mind-blowing and heart-wrenching story, "Falling into place" less than five huge stars.