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bananatricky 's review for:
The Year We Fell Down
by Sarina Bowen
So what did I write yesterday in a review? How nearly every YA/NA book I read now is a DNF. And then I read this book!
This has all the classic hallmarks of a NA/YA nightmare but its deeper, less angsty (despite the characters having much more reason for the angst) and far better written.
Corey is a former ice hockey player who has lost the use of her legs in an accident. In a desperate bid to escape her parents' fussing she goes to Harkness College (her brother's college) where she is in the ground-floor special housing. Across the hallway is a smoking hot boy who also plays hockey and who broke his leg in two places in a drunken climbing accident.
Now I'm sure that Corey's story is disability-lite but it is still thought-provoking and eye-opening - for which I thank Ms Bowen.
I immediately downloaded the second book - that's how much I enjoyed this.
This has all the classic hallmarks of a NA/YA nightmare but its deeper, less angsty (despite the characters having much more reason for the angst) and far better written.
Corey is a former ice hockey player who has lost the use of her legs in an accident. In a desperate bid to escape her parents' fussing she goes to Harkness College (her brother's college) where she is in the ground-floor special housing. Across the hallway is a smoking hot boy who also plays hockey and who broke his leg in two places in a drunken climbing accident.
Now I'm sure that Corey's story is disability-lite but it is still thought-provoking and eye-opening - for which I thank Ms Bowen.
I immediately downloaded the second book - that's how much I enjoyed this.