Review: The Speed of Falling Objects

The Speed of Falling Objects by Nancy Richardson Fischer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was one book that surprised me so much. It follows Danger through going on a trip with her dad and wanting to show him that she can be strong and not be afraid of the world. Danger lost her eye when she was little and I really think that she blamed herself for not listening. Even though as us parents know that kids just don't listen sometimes. The story really gets going once the plane that Danger was in crashes and she finds herself alone in the Amazon.

I have to say that this was a very interesting story. The main character of Danger only has one eye and that really messes with her ability to see depth as well as anything on her left side. I thought that as character disabilities etc. go this was one that I hadn't seen before. Overall, Danger not having vision in her left eye didn't really affect her trip though the Amazon. I would have liked it to affect her more since it was a big topic in the story. The rest of the characters were great. I think the author did an amazing job with this cast.

The story itself from start to finish was wonderful. I liked how we started out learning about Danger and how we only get tidbits of how she lost her eye until almost the end of the story. It gave it a slight mystery feel.

Overall, this was one that had a little bit of everything in it from danger to romance, to one girl finding her own voice.

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