Brooke's dream was to be a competitive ice skater. She practices
whenever possible and she has been working at an ice rink so she
doesn't have to pay for ice time. Until the day everything changes.
Brooke's brother Jason has been convicted of killing his best friend
Calvin and now Jason is in prison.
After that, everything changes for Brooke and her family. Her friends
want nothing to do with her and it is the same for the other family
members. Brooke's only friend is Maggie, and she knows nothing about
the murder since she and her mother have just moved here.
Then things change again... While driving, Brooke sees someone on the
side of the road. It is raining out so she stops to see if she can help. It
ends up being Heath, Calvin's brother, and both of them are unsure
how to act around one another. They keep running into each other and
start to form a friendship against all odds. Heath agrees to help her
with her lifts for the ice skating tryouts. At first, they hardly speak to
each other. Now they are talking about what happened between their
brothers and how both of them feel completely alone. Both know that
both families would have a fit if they knew that these two were now
friends.
Abigail Johnson's EVEN IF I FALL
is, at times, very hard to read. Not because it is not good, more
because of the sorrow that both of these young adults are going
through. Johnson shows how people will judge an entire family on
something one of them does. EVEN IF I
FALL really took me by surprise. This story shows how no matter
how you might feel about someone at first, maybe once you get to
know them you will change.
Brooke and Heath should never have become friends,
let alone fallen in love
A year ago, Brooke Covington lost everything when her
beloved older brother, Jason, confessed to the murder of his
best friend, Calvin. Brooke and her family became social
pariahs, broken and unable to console one another. Brooke’s
only solace remains the ice-skating rink where she works,
but she no longer lets herself dream about a future skating
professionally.
When Brooke encounters Calvin’s younger brother, Heath, on
the side of the road and offers him a ride, everything
changes. She needs someone to talk to…and so does Heath. No
one else understands what it’s like. Her brother, alive but
gone; his brother, dead but everywhere. Soon, they’re
meeting in secret, despite knowing that both families would
be horrified if they found out. In the place of his anger
and her guilt, something frighteningly tender begins to
develop, drawing them ever closer together.
But when a new secret comes out about the murder, Brooke has
to choose whose pain she’s willing to live with—her family’s
or Heath’s. Because she can’t heal one without hurting the
other.
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