Review: The Fall: An Autobiography of an Alter Ego - Elle

 

Feel in the mood for an "New Adult" book ?
Craving that need for an Edgy read ?

Review: The Fall : An Autobiography of an Alter-Ego - Elle - Pub. 2013

Are you in the mood for something different than what you would normally venture into and read ? The Fall : An Autobiography of an Alter-Ego tells the story of Devon in two parts , the first part which is at the beginning of each chapter is a diary sequence and the second is the story part giving us a more detailed insight into the story of her life. The Fall too me reminded me of a part Alice In wonderland type story and the author Elle has made references to the Lewis Carroll story and the book Go Ask Alice by Anon which was the autobiographical fictional diary by a fifteen year old girl Alice in the last year of her life -the year she discovered the drug "E". In The Fall , the story starts out innocent with Devon meeting an handsome guy named Wil. Though Wil has a dark side, he is into his drugs which soon Devon starts to participate in and then of course lands a downward spiral of Devon's life as she gets deeper and deeper involved with the drugs scene and soon it becomes all she knows. At the same time though as we read later on in the novel we discover and read along as Devon goes through physical abuse, emotional abuse and eventually the act of self-harm when she develops a severe eating disorder. 

Can Devon find her way out of the rabbit hole and return to a life she once had before she even knew what "drugs" were just like Alice from Wonderland ?

Or will Devon become another statistic , another casualty to the world of drugs, eating disorders and bad choices ?

The Fall : is an interesting read and one that really opens your eyes to how easy it is to succumb to peer pressure.