When the World Tips Over
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The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.
Years ago, the Fall kids’ father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.
Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls’ world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.
With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
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I do believe when the world tips over, joy spills out with all the sorrow.
But you have to look for it.”
✨ Magical Realism 🫶🏾 Found Family 🤐 Family Secrets 💔 Betrayals 🐾 Sandro 🏳️🌈 LGBTQIA+ rep
When the world Tips over was a family generational story filled with magic, telepathic dogs, betrayals, love, and reconciliation.
This book is massive... almost too massive. I'm not going to lie... it did take a bit for me to really get into the story. I had a hard time for the first 100 pages, which was mainly in Daisy's POV. BUT after getting through that bit we get into the meat of the story, and everything takes off from there!
I really enjoyed reading all the pieces of the Paradise Springs/Fall/Fallas puzzle fall into place. Reading this felt very... nostalgic??? I remember reading I'll Give You the Sun in high school, and Nelson's storytelling really pulled me back to my freshman/sophomore year.
I DO wish that Cassidy and Wynton never become a thing. Jandy Nelson worked OVERTIME, to make sure you knew that they were not related. It was weird. Very weird. There were other romantic storylines that could have replaced it, and Cassidy's story goes unchanged with Wynton if there was no romance.
Other than that I did enjoy most of my time reading this story. Jandy Nelson does have a way with making her writing feel familiar even though the story is always unique.
Ooh I can't end this review without mentioning my favorite Sandro!! The goodest dog!!
Thank you Penguin Teen for the arc copy!
