Reviews - Fall on Your Knees

578 reviews for:

Fall on Your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.93 AVERAGE

downsman's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aegreen82's review against another edition

3.0

Well, that was depressing

so_tru's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

sun_xiao_bei's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective medium-paced

goodprime's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

cam_cates's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I was so close to giving this a 4.5, but I couldn’t get over how the book slowed down so much halfway through. It never felt clear why the novel ending up centering around Mercedes and Francis, whose stories never amounted to anything substantial.
The prose was excellent. The plot was dense, but maybe in the wrong places. And I’m not sure how I felt about how every secret the family held surrounding James’s evilness.