GOODREADS SUMMARY:Ellis has a plan: spend her senior fall prepping her application for Columbia, get into their journalism program, and set the foundation for a respectable career. So when her parents announce that not only are they separating, but Ellis has to move with her mom from New York City to Bramble Falls, Connecticut, to live with her aunt and cousin, it couldn’t come at a worse time.
From past summers spent in Connecticut, Ellis knows Bramble Falls is idyllic and charming. But it also seems to be full of distractions. There’s local barista Cooper Barnett, Ellis’s one-time best friend and first kiss who now wants nothing to do with Ellis. And then there’s the Falling Leaves Festival, a local autumnal celebration run by Ellis’s aunt where people from all over come to see Bramble Falls’s beautiful foliage. The house is stuffed with decorations, and every conversation seems to center around the festival.
Dragged to every oh-so-charming event from apple picking to pumpkin carving, Ellis can’t stop bumping into Cooper…or falling for the quaint town and its quirky residents. As her return to Manhattan gets repeatedly delayed, Ellis finds herself caught between two very different places—and the futures they represent.
TEES THOUGHTS:
Falling Like Leaves was my first fall read this year, and I have to say I loved it!! It gave me all the fall vibes that I was looking for to start off the season. I will admit, I picked this book for the cover, how cozy is it? and then when I went in to read I notices it was YA. I was a bit skeptical of it, some of the YA books now days are so different from where I am ( as they should be, I am far from a YA now ) that I find I struggle with relating to them.
This book is a romance, of course. My Summer of Love, has ran over into Fall and by the looks of my growing holiday reads, into the Christmas season. However, that being sad, it did deal with some fairly grownup discussions we have to make while we are young, and the author dealt with them realistically, which I appreciated.
I really enjoyed that it was a story of first love, it helps you to remember some of the magic that you forget happens when you first fall in love. It is a lighthearted and fun story despite the occasional struggle.
The characters are all so likable, some I daresay are even lovable. Both of the mains, Ellis and Cooper are sweet, and their relationship is even sweeter ( it's not candy sickening sweet so don't worry ) with their cute fall activity filled dates. It is however, not steamy, so for you that like steamy bits...nope, not finding it here. There was this one kiss though...
If you are a romance fan, I cant imagine you not liking Falling Like Leaves....OH and this books is giving major Gilmore Girls vibes, which makes it even more perfect for this time of the year. I flew through this book, and I usually crawl through them all at a snails pace, I enjoyed it, and I think all of you should read it
