How to Fall by Jane Casey

As Jess Tennant and her mum make their way to spend the summer in Port Sentinel, Jess knows her mum has a reason why she wants to return to her home town, but she’s not giving anything away. With the prospect of spending 6 weeks away from her beloved London, friends and her dad, Jess has no idea how she’ll cope, but the thought of getting to know her cousins gives her hope.

Knowing her cousin Freya died just a year ago after falling off a cliff without the chance of getting to meet her, Jess is keen to get to know who she was and hopes getting to know her other cousins will make her feel close to her. But when the locals start giving her funny looks she has no idea why until her mum tells her she looks just like Freya. With her mum being a twin, Jess doesn’t think it’s that strange that she would look similar to her cousin, but when she sees a photo it’s scary just how much they look like each other.

As Jess starts to settle into Port Sentinel, she soon gets a job in the local charity shop and makes friends with local boy Will as well as an enemy of Queen Bee Natasha who every girl would love to be friends with, but Jess isn’t the type to follow the crowd and doesn’t trust her especially when she learns Natasha wasn’t a fan of Freya.

With the help of Freya’s friend Darcy, Jess starts to learn more about Freya and begins to doubt her apparent suicide so starts her own investigation into her death. 

While she digs around for information she soon finds that no one is willing to even consider Freya’s death was anything but suicide and in the process puts herself in danger – but with the nagging feeling that Freya didn’t plan to die, Jess is determined to discover what really happened and give her justice, but is she asking too many questions?

From the moment I started reading this book I couldn’t put it down. With the first chapter guiding us through Freya running through the wood and then falling before starting the next chapter with Jess’s journey, I was desperate to find out what had happened right from the start – a guaranteed way of keeping someone reading!

With this book being the first in the Jess Tennant series, I can’t wait to read the next one.