![]() ![]() For whatever reason, All Fall Down didn’t have the same appeal. But I liked Ally Carter’s Heist Society, and I read her Gallagher Girls series throughout middle school, so I decided to give this one a try. I tend to read heavily in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and it’s a rare event that I pick up a contemporary YA novel (even if this one may be more suitably classified as a thriller). I did end up finishing it, although I felt like I could have put it down midway through.It could be that All Fall Down just isn’t my genre. Yet despite this ambiguity in narration, I somehow never fully engaged with All Fall Down. ![]() She says that she saw her mother murdered, but did she really? There were points in the novel where I began to doubt her assertion that it wasn’t all in her head, that it really happened. And then she sees him – the scarred man.The most interesting thing about All Fall Down is the narrator herself Grace. Now she’s staying at her mother’s childhood home with her grandfather, an American ambassador to a fictional small European country. But when she says so, no one believes her. Three years ago, Grace Blakely saw her mother murdered by a scarred man during a fire. All Fall Down is a contemporary YA novel that starts off Ally Carter’s latest new series. ![]()
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