Nadine Booklover's Reviews > Falling Like Stars

I don't know what to say, even a few days after finishing this book, I have no words to describe what this book put me through. It takes a very special book, a very special writing to not only get me teared up, but also makes me actually cry. By the end of the book the tears streamed down my face because I couldn't hold in all the emotions this book made me feel.

No surprise here, that Falling Like Stars drew me right in, got a grip on my heart and only released it when I finished the book. Emma Scott just has a way with words that gets to me every single time.
Rowan and Zach's story strummed every of my emotional chords and combined them into a most beautiful melody that still resonates within me.

I simply love the way Rowan and Zach's characters develop throughout their journey is simply stunning. Their chemistry is sparkling from their first encounter and evolves into a beautiful firework during their journey. Their relationship is for both the key to face their inner demons. Demons that they need to face to go forward in life because it seems that both put the pause button somehow.

Rowan facing the demons of grief and guilt, that haunted her since she was a teenager. The way Emma Scott portraits it, you simply feel that this comes deep from within herself. That she puts her own journey into the book and that's what made it feel so real, so raw so hauntingly beautiful.

Zach facing the demons of a toxic relationship. Of loosing himself in a relationship with a narcissistic partner and finally fighting for a way out of it.

I love how supportive and accepting Rowan and Zach are with each other. There was no pushing the other. There was only support and understanding. Accepting the fact that they needed time to heal, time to face what held them back. Giving the other the freedom and room they needed to be able to fully open the heart for the other without giving up on each other.

I love how Zach and Rowan brought each other back to life. How their individual journey didn't prevent them from developing also together in their relationship. They are the equivalent of the quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Love does not consist gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

My first breaking point came with a beautiful butterfly analogy. You'll simply know when you get there. And you feel it even deeper in your bones when you recently faced loss and a journey of grief yourself. What a wonderful way to weave Izzy into these pages: never forgotten, always loved.

Falling Like Stars is a beautiful emotional rollercoaster, that gives you all the feels. That makes you cry while you are still smiling. That breaks your heart while still beating and loving. It shows that moving on from something that holds you back is worth the fight until you see the light again.