Falling
byDoug Wilhelm
byDoug Wilhelm
Jessica RiffeKincaid's review
bookshelves: romantic-suspense, young-adult
Read from November 11 to 21, 2011
15 Year old, Matt walks and listens to his music, only to drown out the noises of the world around him. He goes to school and as soon as he is out, he walks and listens to his muisc lost in his own universe. Why does he do this? No one knows. He was a famous basketball player before high school and then his freshman year he just stopped playing. All of his fans, after being ignored, just quit asking him why he did'nt want to play ball anymore. He trusted no one. Until, one fateful night while in an online chat room he met a girl and they became friends. And after meeting online they realized they were from the same neighborhood as well as in the same school and grade. They would meet after school and walk and talk about anything and everything, except why he became so enclosed to everyone else around him. And then he trusts her with his story and answer why and so does his friend that lives near him who then tells one of her friends, and then so on and so forth the storm builds. He tells her about how him and his older brother used to be very close, playing and practicing basketball together, attending their games when they were playing, sharing their hopes and dreams of going pro, until his brother does'nt make his dreams and any other offers from the other colleges were'nt good enough for him. They stop talking. And his brother turns to escape into his own other world. A world that consists of dishonesty, fear, violence, the wrong people, and most important of all...death. In a fit of anger, of having his story told without permission, Matt takes his anger out verbally on his new girlfriend that he was falling in love with, and instead of hearing her side of the story he jumps to conclusions. Kate, being heartbroke and devastated runs off to find Matt and explain and try to make him understand how much she cares about him and how she would never destroy the trust she built with him. At his home instead of Matt, she finds his brother and that is when the storm erupts. Matt finds out the truth and finds his Kate in his brothers room, unconscious and his brother about to commit a crime of forceable rape. He stops him and that is when the whole town discovers his secret and why he was trying to protect his family from the truth that his brother was addicted to Heroin and was now dealing the drug as well. The authorities come and provide the help that his needed for his brother and now he can begin rebuilding his family again. This book was a wonderful story told about the struggle of a family member that is stuck in the middle of a current growing addiction problem in the world today.
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