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anniewill's review
2.0
I found the characters to be extremely annoying and very difficult to like. I especially disliked the treatment of Jason by the three main characters.
I've read de los Santos' other books and really enjoyed them. This one was very hard for me to get into and even more hard for me to enjoy.
I've read de los Santos' other books and really enjoyed them. This one was very hard for me to get into and even more hard for me to enjoy.
shaymb's review
3.0
So. Many. Commas.
This lady looooves the comma—a little too much, if you ask me (and I'm a girl who loves to use a good comma here and there as well). It was hard to get through it all.
That's all I really have to comment on this book, as there's not much else worth mentioning in my opinion.
This lady looooves the comma—a little too much, if you ask me (and I'm a girl who loves to use a good comma here and there as well). It was hard to get through it all.
That's all I really have to comment on this book, as there's not much else worth mentioning in my opinion.
mcox2016's review
5.0
Absolutely Fabulous find I got from BookBub. Could not put the book down! Amazing how the past can come back and have some good come from it!
hedymarie's review
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.5
pjgoebel's review
5.0
A witty romance with a plot that takes you where you expect to go yet surprises you in the end. Well written!
wellyreads's review
1.0
This book just didn't move fast enough for me and I got bored. By page 56 I really didn't care anymore about what was going to happen or the characters for that matter, and I just wasn't interested anymore in finding out.
julieb118's review
4.0
I LOVED this book. Absolutely LOVED it - just like all of her books, it is just a really happy and satisfying "sigh" when done. I love getting to know her characters, and, in this one, she has great descriptions of the Philippines, the food, the people, the smells. This is interesting, because I don't find that she is nearly that descriptive when her characters are in America (in this book and her two prior) but the moment Penn steps off the plane in Cebu, she becomes very richly descriptive. You can almost smell being there, taste the food, see the flowers. . . It was obviously important to her that her reader be able to picture him/herself in the Philippines. It is just interesting to me that she doesn't write this way "domestically" - perhaps she assumes most of her readers are American and don't need that level of descriptiveness?
There are just a couple things keeping me from giving this book a full 5 stars though I was close to doing so:
1. There is little-to-no development of the charactre of Cat. Past or present, you really don't get to know her, nor understand Will & Penn's devotion to her. I'm not saying she's unlikable - I'm just saying, unlike how she treats most characters in her books (even more minor ones) you really just don't get to know Cat at all. No understanding of why they feel so connected, or why her husband is so devoted to her.
2. A few of her characters and their reactions to things just seem too automatic or contrived. Penn's anger seems bizarre at times, though the way she works through it seems very human. Augusta is not a good character, for me. She does not do a good job, in my opinion, in helping the reader understand why adults just seem to fall for this child - instead she presents her as a fairly precocious, often obnoxious, temper-tantrum prone child. it's fine that she exists in the story and she is certainly part of Penn's story, but I also think the book could have worked quite successfully without her.
Those two negatives thrown out there, I would so very highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read something that feels good and is well written. It left me hoping for a sequel - I'd love to see what happens to all of these characters next - Cat's husband, Will & Penn, Jamie, Will's mom - I wasn't ready to say goodbye and really want to see the next few years with them. I hope she'll write a sequel - or at least related story like she did with her first two.
Give yourself a treat and enjoy this book!
There are just a couple things keeping me from giving this book a full 5 stars though I was close to doing so:
1. There is little-to-no development of the charactre of Cat. Past or present, you really don't get to know her, nor understand Will & Penn's devotion to her. I'm not saying she's unlikable - I'm just saying, unlike how she treats most characters in her books (even more minor ones) you really just don't get to know Cat at all. No understanding of why they feel so connected, or why her husband is so devoted to her.
2. A few of her characters and their reactions to things just seem too automatic or contrived. Penn's anger seems bizarre at times, though the way she works through it seems very human. Augusta is not a good character, for me. She does not do a good job, in my opinion, in helping the reader understand why adults just seem to fall for this child - instead she presents her as a fairly precocious, often obnoxious, temper-tantrum prone child. it's fine that she exists in the story and she is certainly part of Penn's story, but I also think the book could have worked quite successfully without her.
Those two negatives thrown out there, I would so very highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read something that feels good and is well written. It left me hoping for a sequel - I'd love to see what happens to all of these characters next - Cat's husband, Will & Penn, Jamie, Will's mom - I wasn't ready to say goodbye and really want to see the next few years with them. I hope she'll write a sequel - or at least related story like she did with her first two.
Give yourself a treat and enjoy this book!
littletaiko's review
3.0
I really wanted to like Falling Together more than I did. Not to say that it's a bad book, but whenever you compare it to her first book Love Walked In it doesn't quite measure up. That might not be a fair way to view a book but I couldn't help it. The story of three college friends who were once incredibly close but now are no longer in touch could have been an interesting premise. However, the reason for their "break-up" seemed quite silly. Pen was a difficult character to support because she seemed to be living in some sort of relationship dreamland where everybody stays. The character I ended up enjoying the most was the one most dislike by others in the book - Jason. While boorish he seemed the most real to me and I could understand him better. Even though it sounds like I didn't like the book, I actually felt it was good but not great. It did keep me interested and thinking about the characters even when I wasn't liking them.