Review: Falling

Falling
By Jane Green

Rating: 2/5 stars

Emma Montague, British by birth, moves to the coast of Connecticut after quitting her job as a banker, for a change of the fast pace of Manhattan. Within weeks she's fallen for her landlord, Dominic, and his 6 year-old son, Jesse.

I don't like Nicholas Sparks novels for a reason, and this novel was way too Nicholas Sparks for my taste. Yes, it is a silly chick lit book, but that doesn't mean characters can have some depth. Emma was the stereotypical upperclass, well educated woman who falls in love for the working class bartender, Dominic. Everyone in this book was very one note to the point where I could've predicted almost the entire book from sentence two. That is not necessarily a bad thing, fluffy and light was what I was looking for, but Green threw in a totally unnecessary plot twist at the end just to mix things up.

Although I didn't quite enjoy Falling it was a nice, quick, summer read.