The Downside of Falling by Meghan Quinn (Review)

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Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.

Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.

Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!

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This isn’t a story about a love triangle. There is no triangle involved.

This isn’t a story about an accidental pregnancy. Although having a baby with her . . . I would.

This isn’t a story about lies and deception, even though at times I’ve lied to myself.

No, this is my story.

A story about sacrifice.

A story about a man who fell in love with the wrong girl.

A story I wish I never had to tell.

This is a story about the true meaning of the downside of love.

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Wow. Okay, let me attempt to put my thoughts into words without giving away any spoilers. First off, this is the conclusion to the Blue Line Duet and you MUST read The Upside of Falling first.

Now that both books are out, you can go directly from book 1 to this book without having to be left with a cliffhanger. Author Meghan Quinn completely turned this story on its head with this book. This is not the story I expected or wanted but it was the story I needed. I’ve never before had an author mess with my head to this extent, tell me up is down and down is up and keep me engaged in a way that I enthusiastically went down the rabbit hole with her.

I absolutely loved this story, the writing and characters and would go so far as to say I believe this is the author’s best work yet. I cannot recommend this duet enough.

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