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scribbledpizza 's review for:
All Fall Down
by Ally Carter
I was in grade 6 when I bought and first read this book. It's been (more than) six years, my god. I guess this might've been the actual, for real this time, first YA book I ever read. Which means that the younger audience and extreme amounts of melodrama didn't even catch on my radar at the time. I was the target audience, and everything Grace ever did was completely justifiable to my 11 year old mind. I never found her annoying in the slightest, even when she repeats like 7 times virtually identical lines about how likely she is to make the city fall down and that she hates/can't respect people for caring about her. Girl has some extreme self image issues. Girl cannot take a step back. But can't we all relate to thinking we're the worst thing in the world but also the most important? Just most, things are the most. I feel like that is a phase we all must get through to some degree. And in Grace's case...
I was worried that this reread would kill my fond memories of this book. I was lucky and I was wrong because this will always be a comfort read for me, and I will always be on board with it because I got into it at the right time, even if future books like it might not fly with my current tastes, and I should've known this from my 39 clues reread binge last year. I'm grateful for that.
One thing that has always slightly itched about this book is how much of a fever dream the last 10 percent feels like in a way that doesn't hit completely what it's going for for me. Tension is just weirdly gone and..hold on...is she literally locked in a literal tower??? The pacing and tension is so tight up to then and the scenes so purposeful and then the ending is still not the worst or anything but idk.
Also in previous reads I noticed that Carter reuses the name Petrovic/Petrovich in two of her series, but this is the first time I noticed that Valancia feels potentially Dubrovnik-inspired. Which is kinda cool.
Spoiler
well, she wasn't really wrong, was she?I was worried that this reread would kill my fond memories of this book. I was lucky and I was wrong because this will always be a comfort read for me, and I will always be on board with it because I got into it at the right time, even if future books like it might not fly with my current tastes, and I should've known this from my 39 clues reread binge last year. I'm grateful for that.
One thing that has always slightly itched about this book is how much of a fever dream the last 10 percent feels like in a way that doesn't hit completely what it's going for for me. Tension is just weirdly gone and..hold on...is she literally locked in a literal tower??? The pacing and tension is so tight up to then and the scenes so purposeful and then the ending is still not the worst or anything but idk.
Also in previous reads I noticed that Carter reuses the name Petrovic/Petrovich in two of her series, but this is the first time I noticed that Valancia feels potentially Dubrovnik-inspired. Which is kinda cool.