I also love how it takes so long to figure out what the story's about, and we don't ever really know until literally the last sentence of the entire book. Grace has been through some huge trauma lately, and she shows it - and I may not always like the way she's fixated on her past or the way she interacts with the people around her, but I appreciate that she's being real. I'm very tired of MC's going through big traumatic events and then just shaking themselves off and continuing on like nothing happened. But, for me, I feel like Grace's behavior is simply realistic.
Just come off it and say the truth." That definitely could be annoying. She also wanders around saying rude things to people who are trying to be polite about her condition, like "Yeah, you're treating me gently because I'm mentally unstable and killed my own mother. I can definitely see the basis for these complaints, because Grace spends a lot of time talking about how damaged she is and about how it's really not okay, no matter what people say. My mom, who never reads any books reviews, had the same issue when she finished reading it. Alexei is still very sweet, but the beautiful relationship of unspoken trust and dependence that was built up in the first book has morphed into a more aggressive form of attachment that I still enjoyed pretty well but not as much as before.Ī lot of other reviewers said that they got sick of how whiny Grace is throughout the book. I did enjoy See How They Run (and I was infinitely excited that it didn't travel down the campy road All Fall Down's ending hinted at), but the characters and story have lost a certain spark that was so evident in the first book. Or, really, my aunt did - I used her giftcard to buy it.Īnyway, was it worth it? Um, kind of.
It was discounted, so I payed like fifteen dollars instead of twenty. I'm a very impatient person, and the library just wasn't quick enough for me. Which is why I bought a copy of See How They Run from Half-Priced Books a few days after it came out. Usually I don't go in for hype, but with All Fall Down I actually agreed with all the other rave reviewers: it was a good book. I reviewed All Fall Down pretty soon after it came out, and I really loved it.
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