imme_van_gorp 's review for:

Make Me Fall by Riley Nash

4.0

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This was a very heartwarming and slightly sad story. 
The writing is comforting and nice: it manages to captivate you even during the moments when nothing much is going on.

It’s very heavy on the hurt/comfort and grumpy/sunshine tropes, but it also features an age-gap and even has an intern/boss dynamic for a little while.

“A melancholy part of me wonders whether Gray is in my dream right now or if I’m in his. Which one of us is going to wake up and realize none of this was ever real. I hope it’s me, because sometimes I think I’m a little bit stronger than him.”

Jonah was without a doubt my favourite character in this book. He is energetic, hopeful, chaotic, happy, caring and sweet.
The way he persevered even with all his setbacks in life was inspiring and beautiful. I can’t imagine ever being that strong myself.
He was an impossibly likable person, and it was absolutely unthinkable to not wish him the very best.

However, if I’m being honest, I wasn’t so sure if Gray really was “the very best” for him at first.
It took me a little while to warm up to him, but once I started to understand his pain and reservations better, I started to like him more and more.
In the end, I could definitely see how much he adored Jonah and I very much wanted them to be together.
Gray might not be perfect, but he was enough, and their love was obviously ample strong to conquer any obstacles.

“I think I finally found my princess, Mom. He’s six and a half feet tall, grumpy as hell, and talks dirty as sin.”

All in all, I was plenty invested in this book. I think the characters had depth and lots of chemistry together. I definitely enjoyed reading this.