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The Way We Fall

by Megan Crewe

Series: Fallen World (1)

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Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.
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    Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (JRlibrary)
    JRlibrary: Both books deal with events that alter the way society works, and force people to either pitch in and help, or become selfish predators who care only for their own survival. Both are a bit slow to begin with, but build a very realistic portrayal of human behavior.… (more)
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This was....meh. It didn't scare the pants off me the way Preston's The Hot Zone did -- although Crewe does cite that book as a source. Crewe throws a large variety of stuff at the wall; besides not all of it sticking, this approach dilutes the power of the story to shock. Instead of a horrifying plague, with its stark numbers of dead, the virus seems like more of a really annoying (but surprisingly accommodating and selective)relative who just won't leave town.

I was underwhelmed. ( )
  FinallyJones | Nov 17, 2021 |
First off a praise. Megan Crewe has created a virus that is unlike any I have ever read about before, and therefore a hundred times more terrifying. Thinking back, every virus I've ever read about has done ungodly things to people. Skin falling off, limbs atrophying, things that make people run away from you. Crewe's disease? It causes people to be...friendly, albeit overly so. I thought this was brilliant. What better way to spread a virus than through friendly human contact? For that matter, what scarier way?

Also brilliant in the Way We Fall is the way that the story is told, or so I thought. We see the outbreak through the eyes of Kaelyn, a young girl who lives on the island. However instead of her speaking to us as a reader, she is writing a journal to her friend who left the island to go to school. For me, this was a perfect way to see into the world that Kaelyn was living in. All her fears, all her worries, are penned into that journal beautifully. After all, who better to share the deepest parts of yourself with than a friend?

This book dives into the darkest part of human kind, and what happens when we have to fight to survive. Kaelyn learns early on that there are two types of people when the world fires back at you. There are those who band together, and those who take for themselves. Those who create, and those who destroy. Crewe offers us a look at what happens to a community when disaster hits and, while beautifully executed in the story line, it definitely isn't always an easy read.

Although The Way We Fall didn't grab my attention at page one, it was one of those books that was a slow burn for me. By the time that I was a few chapters in, I was scrambling to read more. What Megan Crewe has created here is a new type of dystopian terror. Isolation, greed, survival. It is all played out here in gritty harmony, and it makes The Way We Fall an overall fantastic read. In the world of dystopian fiction, this is something new. I honestly have to say that I loved it. ( )
  roses7184 | Feb 5, 2019 |
PopSugar '15 #34--Book with a love triangle ( )
  VanChocStrawberry | Apr 2, 2018 |
Hmm. This was okay. Not as awesome as some end-of-the-world books, but it still kept me interested while I listened at work.
I'll certainly give book two a go, just to see what happened after ... well, that thing that happened in the last chapter. ( )
  imahorcrux | Jun 22, 2016 |
This wasn't bad, but I found it a bit slow. ( )
  mmacd3814 | May 30, 2016 |
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