Book Review: Feels like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey

From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes Feels Like Falling – an odd couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness.

It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy.

Unless, that is, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her evangelical husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger fired from her job at the local pharmacy.

Diana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a busted Impala for a bed. Lucky for her, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience.

With Gray’s kindness, Diana’s tide begins to turn, but when the one that got away comes back, every secret from her past seems to resurface all at once. And, as Gray begins to blaze a new trail, she discovers, with Diana’s help, that what she envisioned as her perfect life may not be what she wants at all.

In her warmest, wittiest, and wisest novel yet, Kristy Woodson Harvey delivers a discerning portrait of modern womanhood through two vastly different lenses. Feels Like Falling is a beach bag essential for Harvey fans—and for a new generation of readers.

My Review

I’d read one of Kristy’s other books and had thoroughly enjoyed it, and I’ve interviewed her before, so I was delighted to have the opportunity to read and review Feels Like Falling. And I was hooked from the very beginning!

I loved the feistiness of Diana’s character. She’s a really tough cookie, but as you read the story you soon realise she has a heart of pure gold. I loved how the two main female characters met in the beginning, and how they clicked almost immediately – especially considering how different they were. Even though they were total opposites, they turned out to be real soul sisters!

The stories I love reading about, even more than romance, are the ones about friendship and Feels Like Falling is one such story. You’ll probably finish reading the book and wish that you had Gray and Diana in your life too. It’s a book that will leave you feeling totally uplifted and they are the best kind of books, right?