Flying and Falling

 By: Lynda Tomalin

Genre: FIC TOM

Location: FIC TOM

Shortlisted for the 2022 Storylines Tessa Duder Award

Hollie is learning to live with depression.

She’s working hard to put the darkest days behind her. She’s got a job she loves, friends she cares about, and she’s coping. In fact, she’s doing pretty well.

Then a mysterious – and gorgeous – new boy shows up at school.

Jonathan is running away from his past.

Weighed down by a guilty secret, he’s fled to his aunt’s rural property under the guise of helping out on the farm.

As Hollie and Jonathan are unexpectedly thrown together, a growing mutual attraction scares and excites them.

But the past isn’t so easy to escape, and they both have to decide if it’s enough to keep hiding, from themselves and from each other.

Or can they risk hoping for more?
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CW: This book contains detailed descriptions of mental health struggles, particularly depression.

MILLIE

Firstly, I received this book as an arc by Book sirens and Lynda Tomalin which I am super grateful to have been accepted for. Now getting on with my review for this book, so first of all I want to praise Lynda Tomalin for the amazing mental health representation it was the best that I have come across when reading a book and it is what all authors should aspire to write mental health like. Now I really enjoyed this book I thought the characters had depth and growth from the beginning of the book to the very end. I loved the how both the female main character, Hollie, and the male main character, Jonathan, both had separate stories of how they came to be who they are and why they were where they are today that was really sad but important to read about. The plots within this book are mainly focused around mental health and some dark secrets from the past that both characters are ashamed to revisit and admit but they have nothing to be ashamed about and throughout the book they start to become ok with who they are and why they are the way they are. The relationship between the two main characters is super cute and there was a little bit of tension between the two of them as the book progresses and I actually enjoyed the slow burn in this book I just wish that there was a little epilogue because selfishly I wanted to read more about the two main characters! Overall, this is an extremely well written book with some amazing representation, and I would 100% recommend. Just to mention please check trigger warnings before reading this book!