The Fall of Innocence

By: Jenny Tores Sanchez

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

For the past eight years, 16-year-old Emilia DeJesus has done her best to move on from the traumatic attack she suffered in the woods behind her elementary school. She's forced down the memories - the feeling of the twigs cracking beneath her, choking on her own blood, unable to scream.

Most of all, she's tried to forget about Jeremy Lance, the boy responsible, the boy who caused her such pain. Emilia believes that the crows who watched over her that day, who helped her survive, are still on her side, encouraging her to live fully. And with the love and support of her mother, brother, and her caring boyfriend, Emilia is doing just that.

But when a startling discovery about her attacker's identity comes to light, and the memories of that day break through the mental box in which she'd shut them away, Emilia is forced to confront her new reality and make sense of shifting truths about her past, her family, and herself.

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Bleak

While I enjoyed this book when I read it several years ago, I did not enjoy the audio version. I like the narrators voice when she was reading the story but when she was doing dialogue her voice felt artificial and forced. FALL OF INNOCENCE is a very bleak story, though well written and atmospheric.