by Michael Christie
Will is an eleven year-old boy and the child of a single mother Diane. Diane suffers from agoraphobia and has kept herself and her son "Inside" their house in Thunder Bay for the better part of his young life. Because he knows nothing else except what his mother has told him he accepts that going ...
Description (Goodreads): Will has never been outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who panics at the thought of opening the front door. Their world is rich and fun- lovi...
When he was a toddler, Will and his mother, Diane, moved into a house in rural Canada (somewhere north of Toronto, I think) and never left. I don't mean that didn't move to a different residence, I mean they didn't leave. Diane was a filmmaker -- some sort of arty, documentary/montage-type thing --...
I loved the storyline, but not the execution. I love novels whose main characters have a mental illness and the more screwed up they are, the better. I find those storylines fascinating. “If I Fall, If I Die” starts out strong, but halfway through, it got boring so I stopped at page 162. The novel i...
The boy stepped Outside, and he did not die. He was not riddled with arrows, his hair did not spring into flame, and his breath did not crush his lungs like spent grocery bags. His eyeballs did not sizzle in their sockets, and his heart’s pistons did not seize. No barbarian lopped his head into a bl...
This was definitely a YA book about a boy who lives with an agoraphobic mother. There was definitely a lot about skateboarding, as this was Will's favorite pastime after going "Outside". The story was sometimes a little hard to follow as the author wasn't consistent with the names all the time. One ...
If I Fall, If I Die, the debut novel by Michael Christie, is part coming of age story and part action adventure story. The setup of the story is that of a boy wanting to go beyond the confines of his agoraphobic mother's world. Somewhere along the way, the story veers completely in another direction...
A story about a young boy who has spent most of his first 8 yrs, inside his house with his agoraphobic mother. The world she built for him inside the house was so interesting and form the longest time he didn't want nor need more. Eventually though a loud noise sends him outside and from that his st...
By Michael ChristieISBN: 9780804140805Publisher: Crown Publishing Publication Date: 1/20/2015Format: HardcoverMy Rating: 4 Stars A special thank you to Crown Publishing, Hogarth, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. IF I FALL, IF I DIE, by Canadian Michael Christie, deliver...
I received a free review copy of this book through Netgalley.My reviews can also be found on my blog, Kittens and Books.Upon checking Goodreads for the genre listing, as I do for every review, I realized the third genre listed is young adult. I feel like this may be due to the low amount of users sh...
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