How to Fall in Love

Title: How to Fall in Love
Author: Cecelia Ahern
Type: Hardback
Read: 1st September - 6th September 2016
Rating: 3/5
Published: 24th October 2013 by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd

She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Halfpenny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him she can show him that life is worth living before then.

Despite her determination, Christine knows what a dangerous promise she’s made. Against the ticking of the clock, the two of them embark on wild escapades, grand romantic gestures and some unlikely late-night outings. Slowly, Christine thinks Adam is starting to fall back in love with his life.

But has she done enough to change his mind for good? And is that all that’s starting to happen?

Cecelia Ahern, is without a doubt one of my all time favourite authors. I couldn't remember if I ever read this book so picked it off the shelf. I'm sad to say, this book was a so-so for me. Which for this author, is a first. I'm actually gutted because I usually love everything Cecelia writes.

I'm not sure what it was about the book really. Parts kept niggling at me and I could enjoy it. Part of me thinks it was to do with the topic; suicide. However whilst I have no issues in books writing about such thing, I do think that the idea of someone possibly saving another person from attempting to kill themselves in under two weeks, is a little unrealistic.

Christine, is our main character who witnesses a man shoot himself, then a day or two later manages to prevent Adam, from killing himself on a bridge. Christine makes a promise to Adam that she will teach him how to love life again. Now this is a complete stranger, promising another what inevitably is the impossible. Especially when said person, is also going through the breakup for her own marriage.

I just don't know. There were parts in the story that I did enjoy but then there were parts, where Christine was falling in love with Adam, that I sometimes wanted to her slow down.

Like i said, I adore all books written by Cecelia, I just wasn't a huge fan of this one.

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