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This book is about a girl named Kaelyn who lives on an island where a fatal disease breaks out. First you begin to itch all over, then uncontrollable sneezing and coughing, next you are blabbing your deepest feelings to random people, and finally you hallucinate that something, or someone, is trying to get you...and then you die. It starts with her friend Rachel's dad, then Rachel, then everyone has this disease that can be spread by air. Once the death's begin to pile up their island is quarantined and seemingly forgotten. Kaelyn and her family must fight to stay healthy and help those who aren't.
I really loved this book and would give it a 10 out of 10! Since the story is written as a journal of Kaelyn talking to her old friend Leo who, fortunately, left the island just before the quarantine, the writing really made me feel for the struggles and tragedies the young girl had to go through. I actually wanted to cry at one point, which is quite rare, because of one of the effects of the outbreak (by the way this book reminds me very much of the movie Outbreak). Also, I liked that the author was able to incorporate a sort of teenage romance into all of the disaster between the characters Kaelyn and her new friend Gav. Hope is present in her because of him, in a way, they metaphorically hold each other up.
I would recommend this wonderful young adult novel to those who like disaster stories but do not mind sad stories, not that you would expect this to be joyful in any way. So everyone should give this book a try.
I am looking to forward to reading book two of this trilogy called The Lives We Lost as soon as I can get it!! Comment below what you thought of The Way We Fall or if you hope to read it soon!
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