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Falling Review
I’m a huge fan of Christopher Pike. As a kid I read all of his young adult novels. I still have them all and I’ve recently reread many of them. I’m always on the lookout for a new novel by Pike so when I stumbled on Falling I snatched it up right away. As usual Pike infuses his protagonist, Matt Connor with many personality flaws that make him both likeable and sets him up for the perfect role of the tragic hero. I really enjoy Pike’s ability to create characters (whether they are male or female) with realistic motivations. Matt is not perfect and makes mistakes that lead him down the path toward kidnapping, murder and betrayal. His hero is Kelly Feinmean an FBI agent with an interesting and quite tragic past who uses her expertise to try to help Matt despite his many flaws and mistakes.
Pike’s plot is complicated as is consistent with his many other novels. His technical descriptions of boating, scuba diving, flying, etc, all suggest his own interest and aptitude for these skills. In all he paints a very vivid and realistic series of scenarios that not only seem plausible but also allow for the problems to arise that reveal who the true villain really is. My only complaint is that sometimes the description is so technical that it gets a little boring.
Pike’s books are such a huge part of my childhood that I will never give up on searching for new novels by him. I think he is an excellent story teller, even if the characters all begin to blend into one. My theory, there’s got to be a little bit of Pike in all of his characters so that eventually you feel like you know them already before you even open a new book. That’s probably one of the things I like the best about Pike, his narrative voice is like an old friend.
Falling Summary
In Falling , Christopher Pike explores the depth and breadth of human emotion through two brilliantly etched Kelly Feinman, who pays a terrible price to understand the nature of true evil; and Matt Connor, a classic anti-hero who captures the reader's sympathy.
Kelly Once a brilliant FBI profiler and field agent, Kelly went rogue on her last case, hunting the serial killer known as the Acid Man. Now, still recovering from the madman's brutal assault, regarded by her fellow agents as a weak link, Kelly struggles to find her footing on a new the kidnapping of an infant, Jimmy Techer. Making matters worse, Kelly's husband has taken their daughter and left. Kelly fears she cannot even trust her own instincts.
Matt Deeply in love with his girlfriend, Matt is devastated when Amy leaves him for another man. He plots a diabolical revenge that begins with his apparent death. By the time Matt is through, Amy--Jimmy's mother--will know the intensity of Matt's pain, because it will have become her own. And Matt…Matt will pass through the fires of hell and, in the eyes of baby Jimmy, will recover his soul.
Matt Connor is a kidnapper. Kelly Feinman is the agent on his trail. They should be enemies. Instead, they become friends, and together, they help each other become whole.
ISBN-10 0765378922
ISBN-13 978-0765378927
Publisher: Forge Books
Falling Release Date: February 5, 2008
368 pages
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