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ps2's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mjoyner's review against another edition
4.0
Really, REALLY could've done without the romance side plot.
bewareofthereader's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
5 stars
Narrator: Caitlin Davies
This is my second book by Nancy Fischer Richardson (Nan Fischer) and I plan on reading all her backlist books! She always grabs my by the heart, make it bleed but then gives me hope. Yet I'll thank her every time, oh the irony!
What's The Speed of Falling Objects about?
The story is about overcoming your fears and becoming your own North.
Danger Daniel lost one eye at seven after an accident and her dad left soon after. He wasn't there when she had her operations to get a prosthetic eye. He was absent when she had nightmares, was afraid of everything.
Only her mom stayed, night and days, coping and reassuring hera the best she could. And that led to a lot of resentment from her mom for her dad.
Yet Dani finds him all the excuses in the world.
He is an adventurer and now has a survival show. He is always busy, traveling the world. He always meets important people…
Now soon seventeen, Dani wants to reunite with her father, be his buddy again.
And when he offers to participate in one of his shows in the rain forest, she agrees even if she is afraid of everything: heights, spiders, snakes, plane, ...
As fate would want it, the plane crashes somewhere in the rainforest. Their cameraman dies on impact, then their pilot and then...
We follow Dani as she tries to be brave, to impress her dad, to be who he'd like her to be: fearless.
I wanted to tell her to stop. That he was not worth it. That she was such a better person than him. Dani is smart, caring and so very brave, facing her fears and forging her path through the rainforest.
There will be a hell of a character growth in that book!
Dani took risks to be someone else than her, the frightened pigeon, to become her own person.
And there is a lot of pain and sadness too, I was crying on the street while listening to the audiobook!
But you will also have beauty and wonder as nature is gorgeous in the rain forest.
By the end of the book, we realize that her dad is not the worst. He was simply flawed, a product of his childhood and in his way, he tried his best.
This is a very emotional and thoughtful survival story served by a brilliant cast and a very brave female character.
What's The Speed of Falling Objects about?
The story is about overcoming your fears and becoming your own North.
Danger Daniel lost one eye at seven after an accident and her dad left soon after. He wasn't there when she had her operations to get a prosthetic eye. He was absent when she had nightmares, was afraid of everything.
Only her mom stayed, night and days, coping and reassuring hera the best she could. And that led to a lot of resentment from her mom for her dad.
Yet Dani finds him all the excuses in the world.
He is an adventurer and now has a survival show. He is always busy, traveling the world. He always meets important people…
Now soon seventeen, Dani wants to reunite with her father, be his buddy again.
And when he offers to participate in one of his shows in the rain forest, she agrees even if she is afraid of everything: heights, spiders, snakes, plane, ...
As fate would want it, the plane crashes somewhere in the rainforest. Their cameraman dies on impact, then their pilot and then...
We follow Dani as she tries to be brave, to impress her dad, to be who he'd like her to be: fearless.
I wanted to tell her to stop. That he was not worth it. That she was such a better person than him. Dani is smart, caring and so very brave, facing her fears and forging her path through the rainforest.
There will be a hell of a character growth in that book!
Dani took risks to be someone else than her, the frightened pigeon, to become her own person.
And there is a lot of pain and sadness too, I was crying on the street while listening to the audiobook!
But you will also have beauty and wonder as nature is gorgeous in the rain forest.
By the end of the book, we realize that her dad is not the worst. He was simply flawed, a product of his childhood and in his way, he tried his best.
This is a very emotional and thoughtful survival story served by a brilliant cast and a very brave female character.
ashleyoop's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? No
4.0
kookie9200's review against another edition
5.0
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to review this book!
Wow. Just wow. This book hooks you from the very first page and holds you until the very end. I couldn't put it down!
Danny, our main character, is fierce, brave, and intelligent, although at first she believes herself to be none of those things. A traumatic incident when she was seven causes her to lose her eye, and splinters her family. She hopes a trip to the rainforest, with her famous father, Cougar, will bring them closer together.
Chaos abounds in this book, but in a realistic way that makes the reader feel as though they are right there with Danny. The descriptions of panic attacks are so spot on that I ached myself as I read. Even though Danny sees herself as forever lacking, always needing to be more, she is the heart of the group as they find themselves battling for survival in the Peruvian rain forest.
The things that Danny learns in the course of the journey alter her life. Who is she? Who will she become? What is the truth and what is a lie? She comes to terms with all this and more as she fights to survive.
Wow. Just wow. This book hooks you from the very first page and holds you until the very end. I couldn't put it down!
Danny, our main character, is fierce, brave, and intelligent, although at first she believes herself to be none of those things. A traumatic incident when she was seven causes her to lose her eye, and splinters her family. She hopes a trip to the rainforest, with her famous father, Cougar, will bring them closer together.
Chaos abounds in this book, but in a realistic way that makes the reader feel as though they are right there with Danny. The descriptions of panic attacks are so spot on that I ached myself as I read. Even though Danny sees herself as forever lacking, always needing to be more, she is the heart of the group as they find themselves battling for survival in the Peruvian rain forest.
The things that Danny learns in the course of the journey alter her life. Who is she? Who will she become? What is the truth and what is a lie? She comes to terms with all this and more as she fights to survive.
gracedezwaan's review against another edition
2.5
the only character who wasn't annoying as fuck was jupiter.
sc104906's review against another edition
5.0
I received this as an eARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Danny’s father has been absent from her life, ever since the accident where she lost one of her eyes. Danny is desperate to have a relationship with her father and wants him to know that she doesn’t blame him for the accident. Her father is a Bear Grylls, who travels with celebs into treacherous situations and works to survive. Danny knows that she isn’t as brave as her father, and in fact she knows (especially in her father’s eyes) she is a coward. When her father offers to bring her with him and a teen heart throb to the Amazon rainforest to film an episode, Danny knows it is her perfect chance for getting back in her father’s life. Things become all too real when their flight to the Amazon crashes and they must survive and find their way back to civilization.
This book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Danny was such a well-developed character with real layers. She had believable faults and skills. I can’t wait to read more by this author.
Danny’s father has been absent from her life, ever since the accident where she lost one of her eyes. Danny is desperate to have a relationship with her father and wants him to know that she doesn’t blame him for the accident. Her father is a Bear Grylls, who travels with celebs into treacherous situations and works to survive. Danny knows that she isn’t as brave as her father, and in fact she knows (especially in her father’s eyes) she is a coward. When her father offers to bring her with him and a teen heart throb to the Amazon rainforest to film an episode, Danny knows it is her perfect chance for getting back in her father’s life. Things become all too real when their flight to the Amazon crashes and they must survive and find their way back to civilization.
This book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Danny was such a well-developed character with real layers. She had believable faults and skills. I can’t wait to read more by this author.
renwar96's review against another edition
4.0
Going into this book I was unsure if it would be a book I would enjoy. I was seeing it everywhere so I decided to give it a go. I really enjoyed the characters,even though the Amazon was creepy. The relationships between these characters and the growth that took place between them during their treck in the Amazon was great. Danielle's experience is life changing and seeing her growth and find her self worth is really great! This book was a quick read and I really good!
hollygo12345's review against another edition
4.0
Would you travel through the Amazon as part of a survivalist TV show in order to reconnect with your Dad and learn his truth? Well that’s what Danger Danielle (Danny) Warren does in The Speed of Falling Objects. This YA book is a fun and fast read that’s an adventure with a romance subplot. It’s a coming-of-age story filled with courage, the will to survive, love, family, friendship, bullying, and living with a disability.
The first sentence pulled me right in and the second sentence kept me there.
I don’t remember impact. There’s silence, followed by by individual sounds, like someone conducting a nature symphony - first birds with different songs, then the deep vibration of frogs, the buzz of myriad insects and an undercurrent of slithering that might be my imagination.
I could not put this book down. The suspense and the survivalist angle kept me turning the pages, as did the romantic angle. Fischer uses vivid imagery to paint a picture of the rainforest and all of its “inhabitants.” A lot of research went into this book and it shows.
At its essence, the story is about Danny coming into her own. Danny has lived with a disability since she was 7, when she lost an eye in an accident. Not surprisingly, this disability had a major impact on her life - her father disappeared shortly thereafter, she was subjected to bullying in school and she suffered from numerous psychological issues.
..came up with their own dance. It was called “The Pigeon.” They stood in a circle flapping their arms like wings and poked their heads left and right, imitating me. I’d never realized that was how I looked. I was just trying to see better because having only one working eye makes judging depth and the speed of moving objects, like people dancing with abandon, a bitch. Until then, though, I’d thought I was doing a pretty good job. Funny how a single moment changed my self-perception forever.
Danny admits to being scared of “everything” now because of her disability, the exact opposite of who she was before. While the trip is a scary proposition because of all these fears, it is more important to Danny to get to know her Father and prove to him that she is worthy of his attention and love.
...this is my chance to prove to my dad that I can be the kid he used to love.
Tomorrow will be the first step to getting back to the Danny before the accident. Someone my dad will be proud to call his daughter.
As a way to have some sort of connection to her Dad a.k.a. Cougar, Danny has watched all the episodes of his TV show, some even multiple times. Granted it was a one-sided relationship but It was her only way to know him.
I’ve seen every one of my dad’s shows, watched when my mom isn’t home. Cougar eats snakes, bugs, raw eggs and maggots to survive. He suffers in extreme heat, cold and torrential rainstorms that make his skin blister, pucker, crack, bleed. In one episode. My dad almost died from a killer bee attack. In another, he was charged by a grizzly bear.
We really get to know Danny well and witness her personal development while she gets to know her Father and has to face some of her fears. It becomes an even greater challenge because Cougar is a dislikable person. The reader will easily root for Danny every time. In this way, it is a story of surviving the rainforest as well as surviving her father’s dysfunction.
The first sentence pulled me right in and the second sentence kept me there.
I don’t remember impact. There’s silence, followed by by individual sounds, like someone conducting a nature symphony - first birds with different songs, then the deep vibration of frogs, the buzz of myriad insects and an undercurrent of slithering that might be my imagination.
I could not put this book down. The suspense and the survivalist angle kept me turning the pages, as did the romantic angle. Fischer uses vivid imagery to paint a picture of the rainforest and all of its “inhabitants.” A lot of research went into this book and it shows.
At its essence, the story is about Danny coming into her own. Danny has lived with a disability since she was 7, when she lost an eye in an accident. Not surprisingly, this disability had a major impact on her life - her father disappeared shortly thereafter, she was subjected to bullying in school and she suffered from numerous psychological issues.
..came up with their own dance. It was called “The Pigeon.” They stood in a circle flapping their arms like wings and poked their heads left and right, imitating me. I’d never realized that was how I looked. I was just trying to see better because having only one working eye makes judging depth and the speed of moving objects, like people dancing with abandon, a bitch. Until then, though, I’d thought I was doing a pretty good job. Funny how a single moment changed my self-perception forever.
Danny admits to being scared of “everything” now because of her disability, the exact opposite of who she was before. While the trip is a scary proposition because of all these fears, it is more important to Danny to get to know her Father and prove to him that she is worthy of his attention and love.
...this is my chance to prove to my dad that I can be the kid he used to love.
Tomorrow will be the first step to getting back to the Danny before the accident. Someone my dad will be proud to call his daughter.
As a way to have some sort of connection to her Dad a.k.a. Cougar, Danny has watched all the episodes of his TV show, some even multiple times. Granted it was a one-sided relationship but It was her only way to know him.
I’ve seen every one of my dad’s shows, watched when my mom isn’t home. Cougar eats snakes, bugs, raw eggs and maggots to survive. He suffers in extreme heat, cold and torrential rainstorms that make his skin blister, pucker, crack, bleed. In one episode. My dad almost died from a killer bee attack. In another, he was charged by a grizzly bear.
We really get to know Danny well and witness her personal development while she gets to know her Father and has to face some of her fears. It becomes an even greater challenge because Cougar is a dislikable person. The reader will easily root for Danny every time. In this way, it is a story of surviving the rainforest as well as surviving her father’s dysfunction.