A review by claudia_fosca
The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen
5.0
Beautiful story to start a beautiful series!
Sarina Bowen writes with so much heart and soul. It’s her trademark. Her stories are heartfelt and witty. I seriously adore her sense of humor. She is a genius. Her writing shines because of its simplicity and beauty, it flows. And to top it all, her characters are real people, relatable people. It’s the real deal. Basically, great literature.
I love this book. The Year We Fell Down is everything I love about romance. It is perfection. You have a very interesting collection of secondary characters, a beautiful and very detailed setting, a heartwarming slash heartbreaking story, and a very likable set of main characters.
Adam Hartley is a very hot, popular, sweet, and clueless Hockey player. He has a broken leg and therefore is reassigned to a different dorm building. There he meets Corey Callahan and her roommate Dana, and they become friends.
Corey Callahan is a freshman and is trying to move on with her life after an accident that left her on a wheelchair. She is dealing with the changes normal college students face, but also with plenty of feelings regarding the changes that being partially paralyzed have brought her.
Hartley and Corey bond over their disability and a mutual love for Hockey, but for Corey, soon friendship turns into something more. The bad news, Hartley has a girlfriend. The good news, she’s going on an exchange program for a few months abroad. Time will tell if their connection can grow into something more for both of them.
I love Corey. She is so strong and at the same time so unsure of herself regarding Hartley. And he is so clueless at first. Then he pretends not to be aware of Corey as a woman, but the attraction runs both ways. It is sweet, really. I love the way their relationship grows and how we get to know them through their thoughts and feelings. The story is very well written, the characters are well developed, and is an artful combination of painful and hilarious situations, making you laugh and cry in equal measure. You won’t be able to put it down.
Sarina Bowen writes with so much heart and soul. It’s her trademark. Her stories are heartfelt and witty. I seriously adore her sense of humor. She is a genius. Her writing shines because of its simplicity and beauty, it flows. And to top it all, her characters are real people, relatable people. It’s the real deal. Basically, great literature.
I love this book. The Year We Fell Down is everything I love about romance. It is perfection. You have a very interesting collection of secondary characters, a beautiful and very detailed setting, a heartwarming slash heartbreaking story, and a very likable set of main characters.
Adam Hartley is a very hot, popular, sweet, and clueless Hockey player. He has a broken leg and therefore is reassigned to a different dorm building. There he meets Corey Callahan and her roommate Dana, and they become friends.
Corey Callahan is a freshman and is trying to move on with her life after an accident that left her on a wheelchair. She is dealing with the changes normal college students face, but also with plenty of feelings regarding the changes that being partially paralyzed have brought her.
Hartley and Corey bond over their disability and a mutual love for Hockey, but for Corey, soon friendship turns into something more. The bad news, Hartley has a girlfriend. The good news, she’s going on an exchange program for a few months abroad. Time will tell if their connection can grow into something more for both of them.
I love Corey. She is so strong and at the same time so unsure of herself regarding Hartley. And he is so clueless at first. Then he pretends not to be aware of Corey as a woman, but the attraction runs both ways. It is sweet, really. I love the way their relationship grows and how we get to know them through their thoughts and feelings. The story is very well written, the characters are well developed, and is an artful combination of painful and hilarious situations, making you laugh and cry in equal measure. You won’t be able to put it down.