Author: Les Zig
ISBN: 978-1-925700-03-9
RRP: $29.99
Publication Date: 1st September 2018
Publisher: Pantera Press
Copy: Courtesy of the Publisher
August Falling is a story of choices, acceptance and learning to be ourselves.
My media release says Les Zig’s writing is sharp, honest and incisive, so real in parts it will make you flinch. Zig has the unique ability to pull real, human truths from the ordinary and everyday.
August is trying to piece his life back together after a bad relationship. It’s not perfect but do any of us really have the perfect life? He lives in a small flat, works in a call centre, is struggling to finish the book he’s working on and he’s socially challenged around women.
Enter Julie, everything that August isn’t. Confident, composed and purposeful even after a troubled childhood. And finally August feels he can be himself.
Except that Julie has a past and it’s one that is going to test August and his ability to love unconditionally.
I don’t know what I expected when I picked up this book, before reading the synopsis, but I’m not sure this is it. It sounds like it could be quite an engaging read and I look forward to picking it up.
In the meantime 25 of our Beauty and Lace Club members are reading August Falling thanks to Pantera Press and I look forward to hearing what they think. Please be aware there may be spoilers in the comments below.
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At first I struggked to get into this book. Once I got into it I couldnt put it down. It was not your usual love story and was a book about lifes ups and downs.
It follows August who is the main character who is struggling with a bad break up and as we do blames himself. He then meets Julie who has her own secrets which the way the book was written you will never guess.
As I said at first I did not think this book was for me but i throughly enjoyed it and liked how it was not predictable.
Well done.
‘This isn’t a love story. It involves love, and things related to love. But it’s not neat. It’s not easy.’ And so the book opens and we meet August Priddy. August has a had a shocker of a breakup. His life is a bit of a mess but then he meets someone. It’s going well, but then he learns a secret from her past and he’s not sure he can get past it.
The past is not always easy to escape from, even when you think it’s over and dealt with.
I enjoyed the book, made me think but also a little frustrated with August’s inability to move on at times. We can all make choices and this book is a reminder of that.
I really enjoyed this book. I wouldn’t have chosen it off the shelf but I was surprised st how much I wanted to keep reading. The plot was very different to any other book I have read and the characters are very intriguing. I would say it is a love story but not a traditional one. Also a book of growth and reflecting on what society deems normal. Life is messy and unpredictable sometimes we need to learn to trust and just go with the flow and move forward the past is the past for a reason. Thank you for choosing me to review your book.
August Falling is a story of needing acceptance, believing in hope and finally finding yourself. Les Zig opens your eyes to everything we deal with in life and how we let others judgment control our thoughts and how it can destroy you if you let it. He shows us to be careful and not become what we assume our partners and friends want to see. We often choose not always what we want for ourselves. How the choices we make cause a ripple effect of repercussions. Where the truth you have always known, hasn’t really been the truth we believed at all. Reading August Falling makes you take a long hard look at your own dark thoughts and makes you aware we are always hardest on ourselves.
Although this is not a love story. It is a story of how love can be a destructive path.