Free To Fall

What if there was an app that told you what song to listen to, what coffee to order, who to date, even what to do with your life—an app that could ensure your complete and utter happiness? What if you never had to fail or make a wrong choice?

What if you never had to fall?

Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is following what Lux recommends. When she’s accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn’t use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux’s recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore — a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.

My Thoughts

I decided to read free to fall because the concept intrigued me. The book is written in Aurora (Rory) Vaughn POV. I liked Rory’s character; she is smart and a little insecure. The author did very well with making it easy to relate to her and putting you in her shoes. As the book progresses Rory grows: she changes from being insecure into being brave. In free to fall there is a romance between Rory and North, the romance is so genuine that you cannot help but fall in love with them. The setting seemed pretty plausible to me, an app that can control everything (check) and a corrupt government (check). It was very easy to follow the authors writing: to me it was an easy read. But being an easy read does not mean that the book was boring. Free to fall had everything I look for in a book, it had so many twists that I could not put the book down. I would recommend people to read free to fall. I cannot think of anything bad about this book.