How to Fall in Love

by Cecelia Ahern

[Leah]

Cecelia Ahern is one of my all-time favourite authors, ever since her debut novel PS I Love You, she’s been able to capture me with her writing and her storytelling ability. There is no other author I read that is like Cecelia Ahern. She’s incomparable and none of her books are anything like another, she’s truly unique and an author I pre-order as soon as it’s physically possible. I nearly passed out with excitement when I received a copy of her new book How To Fall In Love, it is SUCH a beautiful looking book with its blue cover and gold fonts, and I can’t wait to see the finished hardback book because I’m sure that will look even better!

How To Fall In Love is an amazing novel. Cecelia Ahern just seems to get it right every single time, there’s never a misstep in her writing, she always seems to be on point and How To Fall In Love is no different. The plot is just amazing, and it’s such a simple premise: After talking a man, Adam, down from committing suicide, Christine tells him that she can change his life, that she’ll teach him how to love life before his next birthday, and he reveals that it’s in two weeks. So Christine has two weeks to make Adam fall back in love with living, otherwise he gets to take his life, successfully this time. Sure it may sound a bit morbid and you may wonder just WHY Christine is getting involved with someone who may or may not be unbalanced, but actually, that didn’t worry me at all. I didn’t care that Adam was thisclose to suicide, in fact I embraced it because it’s what made the novel. Can you imagine if hypothetically somebody did that for every single potential suicide? It would be a pretty amazing thing, just saying.

How To Fall In Love is mostly a book about hope. It’s about having the hope that even at your lowest moments, it can all come good again and that suicide isn’t the answer. Adam and Christine’s story isn’t just a tale about Christine helping Adam, of course it isn’t, because Christine’s life isn’t perfect – she’s just left her husband, who’s having a difficult time getting over it, her family life isn’t exactly perfect, and she’s living in a tatty apartment in the same building where she works. It’s a story of two people helping each other and it is fabulous. I was so touched by Christine’s ability to want to help, I loved how Adam was receptive enough to allow Christine to try and help him, and I loved the two as characters. Neither are perfect, but I loved them despite their flaws. I totally fell for Adam, and I wanted to save him just like Christine did!

I adored How To Fall In Love so much. It made me smile, it made me believe in love (not that I ever forget, so many I should say it reinforced my belief in love? Who knows), and it was special. Cecelia Ahern hits it out of the park with every single novel she writes, like I said before she cannot do any wrong. I literally raced towards the end of How To Fall In Love with my heart thumping, hoping so badly that I would get the ending I wanted, and the book just delivered on every single aspect. This is going to be a massive book, and rightly so because it is truly amazing. I say again that Cecelia is one of the most gifted, natural storytellers and Christine narrates this story beautifully. You will fall in love with it and I do not apologise for saying something that is clearly so cheesy, because it is actually true.