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A review by lalawoman416
The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen
2.0
So Corey had a really rough year. She was an All-American star hockey player who suffered a career ending injury. And by career ending, I mean partial paralysis. So she heads out to college - a thousand miles from home - in order to gain some independence and get some distance from her well-meaning, but over bearing parents.
Enter Adam. Adam has broken his leg in two places doing something stupid while drunk. Ergo, he lives across the hall from her in the other disabled access room. They hit it off right away. Small glitch. He has a rich, spoiled girlfriend. True, he can barely tolerate her, but she is still his girlfriend and he loves the status she brings him.
And that's where this book loses me. There's a lot of objectifying going on in this book. Corey loves Adam for his hot body. Presumably there are other reasons, but she focuses on that the most. Adam loves Stacia for her status and the way she makes him feel - successful. And quite frankly, when he switches from Stacia to Corey, it's more of the same. He loves Corey because she makes him feel like a man.
Full disclosure - I find it very hard to enjoy a book that starts a relationship with cheating - and this one is no exception. Adam's excuse is especially flimsy in that he cheats b/c Stacia stood him up. So somehow, we as the reader is supposed to cheer for a man who is willing to cheat on his girlfriend b/c she's inconsiderate. Ok. How about being a man and tying up lose ends before starting on the next one. Anyway, it was all too shallow.
Overall, it was an easy read. Nice style which gave us both Corey and Adam's point of view, but the writing style and the premise were probably the only good parts of the book. Oh, and maybe Dana, Corey's roommate. She was pretty cool.
Enter Adam. Adam has broken his leg in two places doing something stupid while drunk. Ergo, he lives across the hall from her in the other disabled access room. They hit it off right away. Small glitch. He has a rich, spoiled girlfriend. True, he can barely tolerate her, but she is still his girlfriend and he loves the status she brings him.
And that's where this book loses me. There's a lot of objectifying going on in this book. Corey loves Adam for his hot body. Presumably there are other reasons, but she focuses on that the most. Adam loves Stacia for her status and the way she makes him feel - successful. And quite frankly, when he switches from Stacia to Corey, it's more of the same. He loves Corey because she makes him feel like a man.
Full disclosure - I find it very hard to enjoy a book that starts a relationship with cheating - and this one is no exception. Adam's excuse is especially flimsy in that he cheats b/c Stacia stood him up. So somehow, we as the reader is supposed to cheer for a man who is willing to cheat on his girlfriend b/c she's inconsiderate. Ok. How about being a man and tying up lose ends before starting on the next one. Anyway, it was all too shallow.
Overall, it was an easy read. Nice style which gave us both Corey and Adam's point of view, but the writing style and the premise were probably the only good parts of the book. Oh, and maybe Dana, Corey's roommate. She was pretty cool.