And when she meets Kael, a handsome soldier on the cusp of discharge, she’s immediately intrigued by his brooding presence and enigmatic silence.

Like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina also knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war. A dutiful officer’s daughter, supportive sister to a troubled twin brother, and caring friend to her roommate, Elodie, she always puts the needs of others ahead of her own, and prides herself on being a fixer of broken things―whether it’s the house she’s just bought or the fragmented family she works hard to keep intact. Twenty-year old Karina is proud of the independent life she is trying to create for herself in Fort Benning, Georgia. I can honestly say it’s one of my top reads of 2022. The new version of the story is something else entirely different and I just loved it. I did feel like Annas voice wasn’t fully there and the story didn’t move me like her previous books had. When I read it, I liked the story, but it left me feeling like something was missing. She re-wrote the entire book, and that re-write became The Falling which is now part of The Brightest Stars series.Īs someone who has read The Brightest Stars, I can honestly say that I agreed. Because of this she did something that was unexpected.

During the pandemic we all did a lot of self-reflection and during that time the author spent time looking over the story and realized it wasn’t truly her voice. Just to give you a bit of background on this story, back in 2018 it was self-published by Todd under the name The Brightest Stars. It’s been a while since we read a book that made us feel so many emotions but that’s one of things we love about Todd and her stories. Have you ever read a book, finished it, and then after closing it you felt so affected by it, you began to cry? That’s what happened when we read The Falling by Anna Todd.

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