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Free to Fall Lauren Miller Books

Free to Fall was not what I expected. AT ALL.

We’ve all read about the super smart schools for the gifted that cater to making smart kids geniuses. And, we’ve read about advanced society’s where technology has grown and people have become dependent.

Free to Fall combines these ideas but in a totally new and fresh way.

Our leading lady, Rory, is a straight-laced kid. She’s super dedicated to her studies and has been dying to enter Theden Academy. Once you enter its gates, your life is basically set. A top job at Gnosis is basically yours.

As Rory starts her classes and learns more about Theden, she has no idea how much her life is going to change – especially when she decides to start taking control – instead of letting her smartphone app do it for her.

What makes this book immediately relatable is the setting. It’s set in the not-too-far future – around 2030-ish, I believe, so there are a lot of references and present-day similarities that put me at ease immediately. It’s nice in scifi to not have to constantly get your bearings (oh, where is this set? some other planet? what time and/or alternative history are we dealing with?).

Then, there’s Rory. She’s definitely the type of girl I can relate to. Good student, hard worker, rule-follower. But as the story progresses, I saw her change and shift from insecure and fearful of making mistakes to adventurous and decisive. She was totally believable as a heroine, and very endearing.

But, where I think the true genius of Free to Fall comes into play is…what I can’t talk about! All of the twists and secret histories and sub-plots are what make this book great. I LOVED how Miller turned this book into something bigger and grander than just Rory’s story.

She made it about our society and culture, about a realistic state of affairs that could happen if we let it. And, about morality and ethics. She deftly wove big concepts into a very readable tale that left me excited to read more from her.
My teensiest beef is I think one part at the end is a bit convenient (like a save-the-day type situation). But, it’s so easy to overlook that I didn’t really mind at all.

OVEALL:

If you’re looking for a stand out young adult scifi novel set in a not-so-distant future and with some big yet relatble themes, this book is for you. I loved how much the main character grew as a person and how such twisty plots were unveiled. Free to Fall is truly a unique take on technology, culture and making huge life choices – very much recommended.


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Free to Fall Lauren Miller Books Reviews

I must still have a lot of "youngster" in me even now in my 70's. There area lot of young adult books I really enjoy.This book way more than most. Great fun, hard to put down. There are couple of what I call "falter points" toward the end by Ms. Miller pulls it togther and arrives at a great destination. Want to repeat, hard to put down because it was. I really can see a cool movie here! Wish someone with real influence sees it too.
Holy mother conspiracy! Free to Fall was riddled with secrets, societies, plots, world domination! It was INSANE! Every time we uncovered one layer of the plot, we learned about something else—a totally new layer. It just kept building and building and building until it was this crazy, gigantic, epic web of lies and conspiracies! O_O

I loved the romance in Free to Fall! It was paced out really well. It was intense and there were some “I love you’s”, but it wasn’t insta-love. North and Rory were so cute together!

My one slight gripe with this book was the ending. It was intense and I liked the message the book sent, but I feel like I wanted more. I wanted karma. I wanted revenge. But I don’t feel like we got that.

But other than that, Free to Fall was A LOT of fun. It’s the kind of book that will really grip you! You’ll always want to turn the next page to reveal the next layer of the plot, and I love that!!
Rory Vaughn never knew her mother who died shortly after having the C-section that brought Rory into the world. Now sixteen years later, in a world where handheld devices are pretty much running everyone's life, thanks to an app called Lux, she's been accepted at Theban Academy in Massachusetts, all the way across the country from her home in Seattle. When her dad learns she's been accepted, he gives her a letter and a necklace her dead mother left with instructions for her to receive them if she was ever accepted at the school.
Things begin to speed up and get pretty complicated once she's on her way. Another girl from her school, Hershey, was also accepted and although they have nothing in common, the girls end up as roommates. Rory learns that her mother went to the same school, but dropped out just before graduating and reappeared in her dad's life, convincing him to marry her. She also runs into a mysterious guy, North, whose arms are covered with tattoos at a coffeehouse in the town just off campus. Initially a bit put off by his appearance, it isn't long before she realizes there's considerable attraction between them.
Good thing there is, because there are strange goings on at school. After years of not hearing the inner voice referred to as The Doubt, Rory hears it in her first class, Plato Practicum, taught by a woman who seems to have it in for her. It isn't long before Rory realizes that what she believed about her mom wasn't entirely correct, but when she and North begin digging, she finds reports altered or erased. Her roommate's behavior becomes quite suspicious and Rory is invited to be considered for a super secret society that may have a long ago connection to her mom.
In a very short period of time, Rory finds herself doubting pretty much everything she used to take for granted, discovers a shocking truth about her parents, as well as what's really going on behind the scenes at Theban Academy. It's almost impossible to know who to trust except for North, who reveals his own secret bag of tricks. The more they dig, the scarier the information becomes and the last third of the book is a real roller coaster, keeping the reader flipping pages and oblivious to everything around them. It's a great read for teens who like dystopian fiction or who like technology heavy stories. This is a very good addition for both school and public library collections.
Free to Fall was not what I expected. AT ALL.

We’ve all read about the super smart schools for the gifted that cater to making smart kids geniuses. And, we’ve read about advanced society’s where technology has grown and people have become dependent.

Free to Fall combines these ideas but in a totally new and fresh way.

Our leading lady, Rory, is a straight-laced kid. She’s super dedicated to her studies and has been dying to enter Theden Academy. Once you enter its gates, your life is basically set. A top job at Gnosis is basically yours.

As Rory starts her classes and learns more about Theden, she has no idea how much her life is going to change – especially when she decides to start taking control – instead of letting her smartphone app do it for her.

What makes this book immediately relatable is the setting. It’s set in the not-too-far future – around 2030-ish, I believe, so there are a lot of references and present-day similarities that put me at ease immediately. It’s nice in scifi to not have to constantly get your bearings (oh, where is this set? some other planet? what time and/or alternative history are we dealing with?).

Then, there’s Rory. She’s definitely the type of girl I can relate to. Good student, hard worker, rule-follower. But as the story progresses, I saw her change and shift from insecure and fearful of making mistakes to adventurous and decisive. She was totally believable as a heroine, and very endearing.

But, where I think the true genius of Free to Fall comes into play is…what I can’t talk about! All of the twists and secret histories and sub-plots are what make this book great. I LOVED how Miller turned this book into something bigger and grander than just Rory’s story.

She made it about our society and culture, about a realistic state of affairs that could happen if we let it. And, about morality and ethics. She deftly wove big concepts into a very readable tale that left me excited to read more from her.
My teensiest beef is I think one part at the end is a bit convenient (like a save-the-day type situation). But, it’s so easy to overlook that I didn’t really mind at all.

OVEALL

If you’re looking for a stand out young adult scifi novel set in a not-so-distant future and with some big yet relatble themes, this book is for you. I loved how much the main character grew as a person and how such twisty plots were unveiled. Free to Fall is truly a unique take on technology, culture and making huge life choices – very much recommended.