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This book was soooo goooooood! I love a book that will shatter me and make me put the pieces back together.


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The Year We Fell Apart Emily Martin Books Reviews

Source Simon teen via Edelweiss
Disclaimer I received this book as an ARC (advanced review copy). I am not paid for this review, and my opinions in this review are mine, and are not effected by the book being free.

I wanted to read the Year We Fell Apart because I like the sound of the mix between second chance romance and the friends to relationship. Harper sounds like she has made some bad choices, and she has to learn from them as well as face the fall out. She is also dealing with her mom's cancer diagnosis and missing Declan, who she has been friends with for so long, and did have a relationship with.

Declan has been away and now he is back, and through their other friend Cory, that Harper has stayed close to, they come into contact more than Harper thought they would. Thing are awkward, and it was a balance of flirting, trying to figure out where they stand with each other, and Harper trying to figure out whether or not Declan knows what has happened with the swim team and getting caught fooling around with another guy in the pool, and what he thinks about.

Harper also wants to confide in Declan about what is going on with her mom since Declan lost his mom when he was younger, and this is another thing that got them so close back then. But again, the distance and her mistakes cause her to stay back.

Declan was hard to get a read on in the present they spend enough time together because of Cory and because of the parties and then they're also together with the two girls from their photography class a lot. I can't tell if that one likes Mackenzie or if he is just trying to figure things out with Harper. There's moments where I feel like they are so close to getting back to their friendship were getting back to our relationship but then Harper and her insecurities or the mistakes that she's made will somehow get him between both of them.

I did like her memories of the two of them and their first kiss. The good memories from their friendship and from when he told her how he was falling for her and they both were kind of questioning the beginnings of their boyfriend girlfriend relationship and they express you know that there everything to each other.

Towards the end I did skim a bit, with the drama with her and Sadie, but I did like what she realized about her family, and the build up with her and Declan.

Bottom Line Emotional look at Harper's year of regrets and her trying to turn it around.
I picked up this book because it was recommended to fans of Sarah Dessen, but I have to say that was a bit of a misleading comparison. Dessen's characters face big problems and make mistakes, but they do actually grow and learn from their experiences. I didn't feel like that was the case in this book. I was all about believing Harper could put the brakes on the behavior and choices that kept making her life a spiral of suck. I believed and believed until I just couldn't any more. This protagonist made excuses for her messes and other characters made excuses for her messes (even while they were telling her that she was selfish), and even when the book came to a close, I had a pretty good idea she would be back to her old bad habits in a few weeks. I just didn't see the growth, and I felt like her romantic interest was a sucker in the end. My second problem was that this storyline included a rift in the relationship between Harper and her parents that is complicated by her mother's cancer diagnosis. I felt like this ended up being an accessory subplot because there really wasn't a feeling of resolution or development in terms of that issue. Her parents came off as suckers, too, and that was disappointing. I do think that there are readers who will connect with this character because in real life, there are lots of people who can't seem to get themselves under control, but I'm not sure if there is really a message or hope in these pages. This is a perfectly adequate contemporary YA surface read, but I really wanted to see more character growth, and I think most of my high school readers will as well. Language and situations including sensuality and drugs make this a read for grades 9+. I received an ARC from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
For a book that tackles such big issues--second chances, grieving/loss, shaming, bullying, and relationships--I found the characters disappointingly shallow. Emily Martin does a great job portraying the main character's emotional spiral due to her fear of losing people she loves and the extremes she goes to in order to numb her pain. Unfortunately, Harper just isn't a likable character. I found her whiny, deceitful, selfish, and stupid. I spent the whole book wondering if she was ever going to pull her head out. There's a small mention nearly at the end of the book that I think was supposed to demonstrate her growth, but it was too little too late. I didn't believe her insight or her resolve was genuine. As for the other characters, most of them were likable enough, but they had no depth at all. Her friends, Gwen and Mackenzie, may as well have been the same character. Except for the difference in their appearances, they were the same character. Their voices sounded exactly the same. All of the adults sounded the same, Cory and Declan sounded the same, even the two "bad guys" sounded the same. The only person who displayed any individuality was Harper's friend, Sadie, who owes most of her uniqueness to her unrepentant selfishness. (At least she's honest about it, though, which is more than I can say for Harper.) Lastly, I was very disappointed that most of the serious issues in the book are skimmed over, rather than truly explored. The Year We Fell Apart had all the right elements for a really great story, but it just didn't deliver.
A sweet exploration of how grief impacts a community and the fragility and resilience of love. The main character deals with slut shaming in a powerful way.
Cute story that kept me entertained the whole time. Unlike a lot of high school stories this one had more depth and originality.
This book was soooo goooooood! I love a book that will shatter me and make me put the pieces back together.