Every single word matters.įurthermore, the cousin thing begins to seem less weird as you keep reading. Firstly, Brauning pulls off some incredibly tight writing. So yeah, even though I was a little wary about the cousin thing and even though I rarely read suspense, I totally fell in love with this story. Can she leave her first love behind, and can she go on living with the fact that she failed her best friend? Then Marcus is forced to pay the price for someone else’s lies as the mystery around Ellie’s disappearance starts to become horribly clear. But something isn’t right about this stranger, and Jackie’s suspicions about the new girl’s secrets only drive the wedge deeper between Jackie and Marcus–and deepens Jackie’s despair. The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls for the new girl in town.

Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away. Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are searching for her body. Her friendship with him has turned into something she can’t control, and he’s the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for…no one knows where.

That being said when I started How We Fall, by Kate Brauning, I was a little wary of the romance between main characters Jackie and Marcus.ĭid I mention Jackie and Marcus were cousins? Here is the summary from goodreads, which describes the book much better than I could:Įver since Jackie moved to her uncle’s sleepy farming town, she’s been flirting way too much–and with her own cousin, Marcus. I especially like books where the couple just has to be together, but there are seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their way. In case you haven’t noticed, I am a huge fan of YA romance.

How We Fall by Kate Brauning