Falling Star by Michelle Kwasniewski (Rand-Smith Books, 2023, 306pp, Young Adult, $20PB), Book three in The Rise and Fall of Dani Truhart series. Review by Skye Anderson.
Most series of books can be read in any order but it helps to read the first one first: Falling Star is no exception. I read the third one and it only excited me to read the others - but, nevertheless, I did understand the whole story. I have so much to tell you about Dani Truhart (where on earth did that name come from?)!
To Set The Stage
With a mesmerizing cover, author Michelle Kwasniewski enthralled me with the first paragraph! An exciting believable (or not) inebriated underage accident cover-up!
Our young heroine, Dani Truhart, the number one pop singer in the world at age 16 whose mother blackmailed her in a previous book (or so it seems) and whose father appears only sporadically, has a legal guardian. Our Dani is more or less mature for her age and vacillates between being wise beyond her years and "just a teenager." With plenty of dialogue (perhaps too much?), the book reads quickly albeit slow in the beginning and bogging down in places.
Dichotomy?
The first half speeds to a crescendo and then drops off a bit to pursue another (but related) plot before merging the two in the final pages, perhaps too abruptly. The author also ends most chapters with a blog by the same person each time who finally plays a larger role in the story, plus there are Facebook posts from members of the Truhart Nation, Dani's fan club, loyal no matter what.
We have the usual crush on an older boy who ignores Dani plus a growing chasm between Dani and her famous best friends and another brush-off from a former high-school boyfriend. And drinking and driving. . . .
Can people really change? Can Dani really grow up? Can she really trust her mother?
I am so pumped to read Rising Star now!
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