Falling by Jane Green
- Shalini Prasad
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min read
Falling… Let’s just get right to it.
Synopsys:
Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in the world of finance. But, it turns out that her soulless, cut-throat, all-consuming job is only another life that she didn’t want.
Answering an online ad, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage to rent in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs work – lots of work. But it’s the perfect project to satisfy Emma’s passion for interior design and gardening, if her new landlord, Dominic, is agreeable to the small changes she yearns to make.
To Emma, Dominic is also something of a fixer-upper. A local handyman with a six-year-old son, he’s a world away from the men she should be interested in, but he’s comfortable in his own skin, confident, quiet and kind. Slowly, Emma finds herself falling for Dominic.
Laying down roots doesn’t come easily when two lives as different as theirs merge into one. And Emma will realize that the seeds of happiness must be nurtured and cherished to grow into something strong enough to shelter all their hopes and dreams . . .
Review:
This is my first Jane Green book. I picked it up at the library because I wanted a romantic novel, something to make me feel giddy again, after all the murder and thriller books and movies I have been indulging in. This was not the book for that.
Forget giddy, I didn’t feel a single thing. If you had read the synopsis for this book, then you would see every cliche usually used in the romantic genre. The woman’s decision to change her wall street life and moving to the suburbs, where she meets a gorgeous but simple guy, who is conveniently her landlord. They instantly fall in love, but she feels he is from a different world than her. He is not as ambitious as her and is comfortable where he is.
They barely had one date before they fell into bed together and she was practically living in his house. To add deeper consequence to the relationship, the guy has a six-year-old who is now invested in this relationship. Of course, the kid threw some tantrum when the neighbour became his dad’s girlfriend. Emma won him over by buying him gifts.
Because everything was going so well, the boy’s mother, who had run away after having the baby, returns. Who would have seen that coming, right? She wants to be a part of the boy’s life as a “fun aunt”. Her return brings up insecurities in the otherwise perfect Emma. We see this unfold for a chapter before her friends and one strange old lady tell her that love is about kindness.
Stacy leaves and they are back to being a family again. This was 90% of the story. Obviously, by this point, I was heavily regretting ever having picked up this book. But, I always finish a book.
The last few pages seem like a hail-mary attempt to put some emotion into the readers. The ending may not be a classic romantic story ending, but it was definitely not the “twist” that the author may have wanted to convey. You can see the ending coming from miles away. I’m not going to tell you what it is, but I am sure you know what the obvious ending would be.
For a story that was meant to be a tear-jerker, this one got a lot of eye rolls from me. The only good thing about this book is that it is over now. I have heard that Jane Green has many books that are actually good. I don’t know if I will pick up another of her books or not. But it may take me some time to get over this one.
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Rating: 1/5
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