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Take the Fall
by Emily Hainsworth
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Below is my review. Please be advised that it says SPOILER for a reason!
Thank you Harperteen/Edelweiss for a chance to review this book :)
I have a habit of requesting books before I read their descriptions and end up totally surprised when I go to read. Take The Fall wasn't an unpleasant surprise, it was a nail biting on the edge of your seat kind of story but I predicted most of it. This book reminded me of Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game Series by Sarah Shepard, the pretty, over privileged girl is murdered and the town points fingers.
Take The Fall is a good example of a unhealthy friendship between two characters. Gretchen was a manipulative, queen bee that got her way in everything she wanted. She dragged others down take me her self seem better. Gretchen enjoyed the control she had over other people. As bad as I feel for Sonia, she just went along with it. At the end when she confessed what truly happened to Marcus, there was opportunity to walk away fron Gretchen and she never did. Instead she continually let Gretchen manipulate her and walk all over her. I predicted that Sonia killed her all along, there weren't many hints that pointed towards it so I am calling it a gut feeling, but no other characters really fit the bill of a murder through out the story.
The predictability killed some of the enjoyment of the story for me but I am more frustrated with the ending. I would have liked to see the after math of Sonia's confession. Is she arrested? What happens with her and Marcus? Does she get UPenn after all? The story ends just as she begins her confession to the sheriff leaving the reader wondering what happens next to Sonia and other major characters.
The most nail biting happened towards the climax of the story and it was one surprise after the other (It was the only part of the book I didn't predict) You finally think you know who the killer is and then you are tossed up in the air once again. Secrets are revealed, characters change. It was crazy and well written. Though predictable I enjoyed Take The Fall, it was a quick murder/mystery/thriller for a rainy day!
Below is my review. Please be advised that it says SPOILER for a reason!
Thank you Harperteen/Edelweiss for a chance to review this book :)
Take The Fall is a good example of a unhealthy friendship between two characters. Gretchen was a manipulative, queen bee that got her way in everything she wanted. She dragged others down take me her self seem better. Gretchen enjoyed the control she had over other people. As bad as I feel for Sonia, she just went along with it. At the end when she confessed what truly happened to Marcus, there was opportunity to walk away fron Gretchen and she never did. Instead she continually let Gretchen manipulate her and walk all over her. I predicted that Sonia killed her all along, there weren't many hints that pointed towards it so I am calling it a gut feeling, but no other characters really fit the bill of a murder through out the story.
The predictability killed some of the enjoyment of the story for me but I am more frustrated with the ending. I would have liked to see the after math of Sonia's confession. Is she arrested? What happens with her and Marcus? Does she get UPenn after all? The story ends just as she begins her confession to the sheriff leaving the reader wondering what happens next to Sonia and other major characters.
The most nail biting happened towards the climax of the story and it was one surprise after the other (It was the only part of the book I didn't predict) You finally think you know who the killer is and then you are tossed up in the air once again. Secrets are revealed, characters change. It was crazy and well written. Though predictable I enjoyed Take The Fall, it was a quick murder/mystery/thriller for a rainy day!