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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I have mixed feelings about this book.
I listened to the audio version. The voice for Abby was very good. The voice for Olivia was okay. The opening and closing music was flat-out annoying.
This book isn’t what I thought it was going to be. I detest it when authors use curse words outright and make graphic sensual scenes. I feel it is a cop-out.
The suspense aspect was good. At times I got really annoyed that the other seemed to be made a fool of. I was glad that it was resolved. The Olivia character was kind of a doormat considering how she was raised.
The story seemed rather muddied at times. Perhaps it was due to the author trying too hard to steer you in another direction. It was frustrating to feel no real resolve in regard to those characters who were so selfish and undeserving of Olivia.
It was not the read I thought it was going to be, but I tried to evaluate it as fairly as I could. As I said, my feelings were very mixed. However, I much prefer clean reads that are still about real life.
I listened to the audio version. The voice for Abby was very good. The voice for Olivia was okay. The opening and closing music was flat-out annoying.
This book isn’t what I thought it was going to be. I detest it when authors use curse words outright and make graphic sensual scenes. I feel it is a cop-out.
The suspense aspect was good. At times I got really annoyed that the other seemed to be made a fool of. I was glad that it was resolved. The Olivia character was kind of a doormat considering how she was raised.
The story seemed rather muddied at times. Perhaps it was due to the author trying too hard to steer you in another direction. It was frustrating to feel no real resolve in regard to those characters who were so selfish and undeserving of Olivia.
It was not the read I thought it was going to be, but I tried to evaluate it as fairly as I could. As I said, my feelings were very mixed. However, I much prefer clean reads that are still about real life.
So much love for this story. I can imagine my mom as Abi, so much love. Heartbreaking and heartwarming in so many ways.
I really wanted to like this book! It’s full of interactions that were not at all believable (how many times did she just end up in someone’s house to interrogate the person?), plot holes, terrible writing, and forced “emotional” moments. Very predictable and cliche.
Great read. Enjoyed the different perspectives and going back in time.
“Whenever, whatever. I’m here forever.”
The girl who fell, Olivia, has always been a ''good girl''. She had to be, she always had her mother checking on her, even checking her.....homework. So when Olivia's mother, takes a call one night about her daughter found in a bad condition, she finds it difficult to believe that that person is Olivia. Apparently, Olivia has had a haircut, has gotten pregnant....and has a new lover.
In the beginning, we are shown with this image of Abi as a controlling mother, even Abi admits it, I even started thinking she had to do with Olivia's fall. The book starts this way being creepy and getting insight into the past of Abi and Olivia, and then slowly it starts getting emotional. It's like the author changed her mind at the last minute. Started it in a creepy, scary way and then decided to end it in a emotional way; Found a way to my heart and to everyone else's, I guess.
I mean Abigail is an insecure person with all her reasons ; I’d gotten pregnant so young that I never had a chance to find out who Abigail Knight was. I’d been thrust without warning into a very adult world without ever finishing being a kid.
Everybody around me had sharply forged personalities. But I didn’t even know who I was without my daughter. Somewhere along the way, I’d lost myself.
But there's much more to her...Abi as a character, as a person in her life is so underrated. I found her actually a very caring, loving person...dedicating her life to her daughter, also being aware of some boundaries she knew she should set to it, trying to improve herself. I think the best description of Abi that deserves appreciation is this one is:
He’d underestimated her. People did that a lot. But my mom was strong, stronger than people gave her credit for. And she was remarkable. Raising me all by herself was remarkable. She gave me everything she never had just because she loved me. Every single day of my life I’d always known that she was proud of me and that I could do whatever I wanted with my life.
What I liked most was when the author was giving us flashbacks and then explaining how that has to do with the situation now.
I don't want to talk about other (main) characters in this book because yes there's; Gavin, Kendall, Derek, Madison....and Tyler. What happened to her was cruel and she didn't deserve what happened to her. That was horrible and the person who was guilty for that took what he deserved.
For me, the highlight of this book was the love between a mother and a daughter.
Maybe it’s possible to remember your mother from the womb. Just for those first few moments.Maybe you remember her smell or something less tangible, the sensation of swimming inside her, the familiar cadence of her heart pulsing against your ear, the sound of your shared blood powering its every beat.
The girl who fell, Olivia, has always been a ''good girl''. She had to be, she always had her mother checking on her, even checking her.....homework. So when Olivia's mother, takes a call one night about her daughter found in a bad condition, she finds it difficult to believe that that person is Olivia. Apparently, Olivia has had a haircut, has gotten pregnant....and has a new lover.
In the beginning, we are shown with this image of Abi as a controlling mother, even Abi admits it, I even started thinking she had to do with Olivia's fall. The book starts this way being creepy and getting insight into the past of Abi and Olivia, and then slowly it starts getting emotional. It's like the author changed her mind at the last minute. Started it in a creepy, scary way and then decided to end it in a emotional way; Found a way to my heart and to everyone else's, I guess.
I mean Abigail is an insecure person with all her reasons ; I’d gotten pregnant so young that I never had a chance to find out who Abigail Knight was. I’d been thrust without warning into a very adult world without ever finishing being a kid.
Everybody around me had sharply forged personalities. But I didn’t even know who I was without my daughter. Somewhere along the way, I’d lost myself.
But there's much more to her...Abi as a character, as a person in her life is so underrated. I found her actually a very caring, loving person...dedicating her life to her daughter, also being aware of some boundaries she knew she should set to it, trying to improve herself. I think the best description of Abi that deserves appreciation is this one is:
He’d underestimated her. People did that a lot. But my mom was strong, stronger than people gave her credit for. And she was remarkable. Raising me all by herself was remarkable. She gave me everything she never had just because she loved me. Every single day of my life I’d always known that she was proud of me and that I could do whatever I wanted with my life.
What I liked most was when the author was giving us flashbacks and then explaining how that has to do with the situation now.
I don't want to talk about other (main) characters in this book because yes there's; Gavin, Kendall, Derek, Madison....and Tyler. What happened to her was cruel and she didn't deserve what happened to her. That was horrible and the person who was guilty for that took what he deserved.
For me, the highlight of this book was the love between a mother and a daughter.
Maybe it’s possible to remember your mother from the womb. Just for those first few moments.Maybe you remember her smell or something less tangible, the sensation of swimming inside her, the familiar cadence of her heart pulsing against your ear, the sound of your shared blood powering its every beat.
This was such a great book! Very different from the other thrillers I’ve read lately. And that ending broke my heart into a million pieces
This is my first ARC and I would first like to thank the author, Christina McDonald, for giving me the privilege and pleasure of reading her book, The Night Olivia Fell.
All I can say is wow. Christina McDonald brought to life such a beautiful story of relationships, love, loss, and strength. I found myself often surprised, curious, and even in tears. The character development was phenomenal and the caricature of them seemed true and down to earth. The descriptions were so detailed, but not so much that I couldn’t bare to read it. I saw every scene as if it were acted out in front of my eyes.
I don’t often cry at books. When I do, it takes a great deal of good writing to get me attached to the characters. The only other book I ever cried with was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I absolutely recommend this to all my Goodreads and other reading friends.
All I can say is wow. Christina McDonald brought to life such a beautiful story of relationships, love, loss, and strength. I found myself often surprised, curious, and even in tears. The character development was phenomenal and the caricature of them seemed true and down to earth. The descriptions were so detailed, but not so much that I couldn’t bare to read it. I saw every scene as if it were acted out in front of my eyes.
I don’t often cry at books. When I do, it takes a great deal of good writing to get me attached to the characters. The only other book I ever cried with was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I absolutely recommend this to all my Goodreads and other reading friends.
Finished this a while ago, oops! I love a good thriller/mystery - at first I was bored of the book, but in the end it really comes together, as most thrillers do - and it was sweet which you don't say much about a thriller!
4.25⭐️I started this book in the night and read this in a one sitting. it was addicting as hell?? the story is about a girl Olivia who has permanent brain damage, due to an "accident" her mother is called to the hospital, spoken to that its irreversible so her mom speaks to the doctors about organ donation but they cannot pull from life support because of her condition, the condition that she's pregnant??? her mom doesn't believe its an accident so she's set out to find the truth on how her daughter died. its told in the present pov (her mother) and past(Olivia, the daughter) , it is a wow read, and one you should def pick up!!