Falling Together
A Novel
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3.8 • 221 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Marisa de los Santos returns with Falling Together, an emotionally resonant, powerfully moving, and pitch perfect novel about friends, family, and love.
It's been six years since Pen Calloway watched Cat and Will, her best friends from college, walk out of her life. Through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. When, after years of silence, Cat—the bewitching, charismatic center of their group—urgently requests that the three meet at their college reunion, Pen can't refuse. But instead of a happy reconciliation, what awaits is a collision of past and present that sends Pen and Will on a journey around the world, with Pen's five-year-old daughter and Cat's hostile husband in tow. And as Pen and Will struggle to uncover the truth about Cat, they find more than they bargained for: startling truths about who they were before and who they are now.
With her trademark wit, vivid prose, and gift for creating authentic, captivating characters, Marisa de los Santos returns with an emotionally resonant novel about our deepest human connections.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A stimulating if baggy story of friendship, de los Santos's latest (after Belong to Me) tracks what happens to a trio of former friends brought together under unusual circumstances at their college reunion. Cat Ocampo's decision to marry Jason, her longtime boyfriend that her friends Will and Pen can't stand, drives a wedge into the friendship, and soon, with Cat out of the picture, Will and Pen drift apart. Six years later, Pen is a single mom and smarting from the loss of her father when, as the college reunion approaches, Cat e-mails her and Will, telling them she needs to see them at the reunion, but when Will and Pen show up, there's a big, unwelcome surprise waiting for them. De los Santos's fluid prose powers what turns into a nifty mystery, and though the plot flags later on, as if being drawn out for the sake of being drawn out, the mix of perfectly realized personalities and genuine emotion make this a winner.
Customer Reviews
Even better than her last book.
This book made me want to go to the Philippines, call my mom to tell her I love her, hug my daughters, and grab my husband and kiss him! I will read anything this woman writes!
Oh, why did I hate this book so much?
I loved Belong to Me. I thought is was excellent, and so, months later, I bought this Falling Together, hoping for more of the same. Something happened, though, once I got last the first third of the book.
I got bored. I mean, really bored.
All this talk about Kat. We don't even know Kat - there's very little about her, so I didn't get the urge to find her. We got character descriptions of Will, and Pen, as nasueum. But nothing about Kat. Why were they so missing her? What was so wonderful about this Kat that left a big hole in each of them?
Beats me. I still don't get it.
And the more I read, the more bored I got. Until I skimmed through the last half.
Oh, how I hated this book. I think, mostly because her other book was so great, this one was so not.
Falling Together
Enjoyable read, I laughed out loud, I cried, everything I wanted out of an easy read. Goes on my favorite list as does the rest of the authors books.