“One day, she will grow up and imagine Death as an angel that will lend her wings. Death, unfortunately, is not in the business of lending wings.”
Liz Emerson never did understand the Laws of Motion until she put herself into them. And in those last, final moments of her life, everything clicked. Liz Emerson understood that everything she ever did, every action, did have an equal and opposite reaction. On her. And this was what all those opposite reactions led to. A dark, unknown end.
“Some people died because the world did not deserve them. Liz Emerson, on the other hand, did not deserve the world.”
There was something so haunting about Falling Into Place, something so absolutely brilliant about it, that I’m sure it will haunt me for many, many nights to come. I can’t describe it, but there’s a feeling of desperation, of pure sadness and depression all mixed together. The whole book is written so well, that you feel exactly what Liz is feeling!
All the while I was thinking about how poignant this book was, and how everything – every sentence, every letter – was so filled with emotion, that it was impossible not to feel things while reading Amy Zhang’s masterpiece. I enjoyed that it was so much more real than any of the other suicide books I’ve read, and at the same time, so much more aloof, because that’s just what life is.
A book I will never stop recommending! Five golden stars!
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