Big themes, strong likable characters, and an ideal summer setting made this book a breeze to sit back and enjoy! I'm never disappointed by a book from Kirsty Woodson Harvey and will be looking forward to what she brings next! Thank you to Gallery Books and NetGalley for an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I was so happy to end the month with this book and I loved it so much! Feels Like Falling really is the perfect summer read. I loved the strong female characters and the overall uplifting vibe, guaranteed to transport you to the Carolina coast.

This makes the third book I’ve read by Kristy Woodson Harvey, and her writing and southern fiction stories keep me coming back for more!

*Thank you to the author and Gallery Books for this gifted copy for review

Feels Like Falling is a captivating tale of two very different women, two people who have absolutely nothing in common. Well, other than the fact that they are both struggling and have no one else to lean on. As their unlikely friendship unfolds, we get to watch them learn what is really important, and who they can really rely on.

Kristy's stories just keep getting better and better with each book she writes. I am so excited for her and the release of Feels Like Falling. This is the perfect beach-read book for this summer, even if you don't make it to the beach. Pick it up. Read it. I promise you won't be disappointed—you're going to love it, just like I did!

Kristy Woodson Harvey has become one of my favorite beach read/southern fiction authors. It was so dreary out the Sunday I read Fells Like Falling. It was just the book to give me the pickup I needed. This fast read follows Diana and Gray pick up the pieces of the lives. Both have suffered losses. Gray thought she had it all until her Mother dies from Cancer and her husband leaves her for his assistant. Diana is homeless and jobless. She also feels the loss daily of her brothers and sisters when their mother mysteriously left them all along when they were young.

Both women come together when Diana loses her job because of Gray. These two women become friends and are exactly what each other needed. It was fun watching the friendship grow and watching their friends gather together to protect them. This book has conflict, friendship, family, romance, and love. Thank you to Kristy Woodson Harvey, Gallery Books, and Netgalley for an ecopy of this book and this is my honest review.

This was a perfect beach read for the summer! I love the characters - the main characters being two strong women who both reach a crisis at the same point in their lives, and fall into each others arms, helping each other through it. The story is set in North Carolina, poolside at a club and on the coast of the beach and the bay. This was the ultimate feel-good novel for summer reading, carrying big themes of love and loss. Highly recommend for a fun, easy read.

Ah, I want to be on a beach with my friends solving issues about love and life. I can’t so this is the next best thing to it. Ms. Harvey’s focus is on making friends your family and having them there for you in your darkest time so you can see the light.

You won’t want to miss story about friendship, hope, self- realization and love.

I wish there were half-stars possible for reviews! This was a 3.5 for me. The overall vibes of friendship and resilience were good quarantine reading (and maybe will be good beach reading again someday). I just couldn't connect with the characters or how quickly their lives started falling back into place. Gray was kind of shallow, and the whole royal-family-naming gimmick of Diana's family reminded me of something out of the Babysitter's Club. But those are relatively minor quibbles, so I'll round up to 4 stars.

Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for a digital ARC for the purpose of an unbiased review.

Kristy Woodson Harvey has done it again with another great read. Feels like Falling is the perfect summer read. This books switches between the two main characters Grey and Diana. Their stories could not be more different yet the find themselves together for one unforgettable summer in North Carolina. Both women will find their new paths with help from each other. It just a great uplifting and fun read. I can't recommend this book enough.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨/5

If there was ever a time for a feel good story, it’s now. And if there was ever a story that defined ‘feel good’ it’s Feels Like Falling from Kristy Woodson Harvey. This was exactly the kind of upbeat read I needed as this pandemic thing just wears on and on and on... I’ve definitely decided I’m sticking to lighter reads for the time being and the characters in Feels Like Falling are a breath of fresh air. Be sure to check this one out and perhaps some of her other works out as well.

I absolutely loved Feels Like Falling. The author did a wonderful job intertwining the two main characters (Gray and Diana) lives in a way where a hilariously honest friendship was born, giving both women the friendship and support they needed during difficult times in their lives.
Recent almost-divorcee, Gray, is back on the beach for the summer, and when she unwittingly gets recently-single Diana fired from the photo developer job she desperately needed, Diana finds a way to guilt Gray just enough to end up working as her housekeeper for the summer. A friendship is born from the most unusual circumstances, and the women couldn't be more different if they tried. Thirty-four year old Gray is a hard-working millionaire, who built her company from the ground up during college, and is now having to rediscover herself after being left by her husband, and battling in a nasty divorce. Diana, forty, is a woman who never seems able to catch a break, between dead end jobs, and deadbeat boyfriends, she's got $36 to her name and is living in her car.
But as the summer goes on, the two women realise more and more that they need each other. Their differences are what makes their friendship so perfect. As Diana becomes both a friend and a mother figure to Gray, Gray is able to bring out Diana's youthful side. Neither is looking for love, but when you're at the beach, sometimes you find it anyway.
This will be the perfect vacation read this summer, and I can't wait to recommend it to friends!

Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey 
If you are looking for a fun, summery read - highly recommend this one!

Gray just lost her mother to cancer, her sister to her extremist husband, and her husband to his assistant. She inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana, fired from her job. Diana is recently single, homeless, and now unemployed. These two become fast friends. 

I binge read The Peachtree Bluff series last year in about a week. Feels Like Falling is a lighter read, and was exactly what I am looking for right now. You get lost in Gray and Diana's world and come out loving their story of a strong female friendship. I adored the meet cute of how Gray and Diana met - ok maybe not so meet cute, but very fun first meeting. Both of these women are strong and resilient, overcoming their own struggles, and I admired how fiercely they cared for another.

This book is OUT NOW! Thank you to @gallerybooks, @netgalley, and @kristywharvey for my advanced copy!

I would agree with the summary, that this is a “beach read” that made me want to run and buy a house on the coast. Any coast. As long as there was sand, water, and a house I could walk home from the beach to, then I’m in!

This story is told from the point of view from both Gray and Diana, where each chapter alternates between the two. Gray is going through a divorce and is dealing with the fallout and trying to move on while running her company and being there for her son. Diana is down-on-her-luck, having just broken up with her boyfriend, losing her job and not having a place to live. It just so happens that Gray played a small part in Diana’s firing. And thus begins the story of how Gray and Diana find each other, and help each other bring out the best in themselves.

My thoughts: What makes this story truly remarkable is Harvey’s writing style. She weaves not only the main characters, but also the side characters into a story that had me hooked. Where the friendships feel so real, you feel like you are friends with them. At the end of my long days of working and “home schooling” (I use that term very loosely as Blippi made too many appearances today), I looked forward to climbing into bed to see what my favorite people were up to. And it just felt so comfortable. During these very uncertain times, this was the perfect antidote to relax and forget that I was not on the beach myself.

If I had one wish, it would be to have this book become a series. I would love to see some of the smaller side characters become leads, where we can learn about their lives and how they got there, and where they are going. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!

Who should read this: Fans of Southern fiction, fans of light, quick reads, beach reads, women’s fiction, people who need to relax and escape in a way that only books provide!

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This is my first book by this author and will not be my last. We set goals we want to achieve in our lives but sometimes you find out that they were not really what you wanted. Living life changes your wants and desires so you charter a new course. Enjoy! 📚

I so love finding a new author that I really enjoy. This story has some very strong female characters, who are even stronger by helping others. I think you will enjoy following the stories of Gray and Dianna. I liked that these two came from different worlds, but came to be family to each other. I think you’ll see in this story that family is very important to everyone. I laughed at some of the antics and responses of these wonderful people. I think you will too. I received this book from NetGalley, but my opinion is my own.

Two women, merely five years apart yet separated by circumstances, money and history are brought together with a bit of serendipity and good intentions and soon find that everything that was off in their lives can now be adjusted, examined and even explored as options open up for them both.

The North Carolina coast is readied for summer, and both Gray and Diana find themselves in proximity that is strangely positive for them both. Gray is still reeling from her divorce and struggling with her son’s imminent departure with his father and new girlfriend for the next three weeks. Diana is simply trying to make new choices when she moves out from the ‘latest boyfriend’s’ place with little but the clothes she owns, an on its last legs car and a job at the local pharmacy running the photo developer.

These two are so very similar and dissimilar, but each has something that the other needs. Gray has a house, a need for a cleaner since she’s a snob, and an ear to listen to her worries. Diana needs work and a home – and Gray can provide both. Funnily enough, both characters are instantly engaging and sympathetic – Gray with her worries about her son, her grief about her mother’s loss and anger with her ex. Diana’s that M&M shell – hard outer crust, melty center, with no expectations that things will ever change, or that a relationship is in her interests as she is rotating a series of ‘ugly’ t-shirts that remind her of every failed relationship.

There are moments here to laugh and to cry: plenty of examples of friendship and its power to heal and help as people move through the challenges that life can toss in their path. With plenty of humor, great friends and some food examples that will have you wanting to raid the refrigerator, the message here is open. Be open to friendship, open to options, open to possibilities and open to taking changes, even second and third chances because one could come up trumps. A perfect escape read with a little bit of everything – including romance and that happy ending.

I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.

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Thank you Netgalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Kristy Woodson Harvey is such a wonderful author, I was so excited to read her newest book. This book did not disappoint. Oh my goodness, it was so good! I ended up reading it in just two sittings, I didn’t want to put it down.

Gray Howard is the CEO of the company she started back when she was in college. She is in the midst of going through a divorce with her cheating husband. So she decides to spend the summer at her home on the beach in North Carolina. Yet, she knows the town is talking about her behind her back. While picking up some photos from the drugstore, she accidentally gets an employee named Diana fired.

Diana is going through a lot right now. She broke up with her boyfriend, has no job, and doesn’t have a place to live. Gray ends up offering Diana a job cleaning her house. They are exactly what the other person needs, even if they don’t know it themselves yet.

This book alternates between Gray and Diana’s POV. I really loved the dynamic between the two characters. They grew up with different upbringings, but realize they’re not as different as they may seem. This book had it all, sweetness, sadness, romance, heartbreak and motherhood. I really enjoyed this book, and I would highly suggest it!

Feels like Falling is a fun beach read set in the Carolinas. You follow the perspectives over a summer of two women in very different situations. Gray is going through a challenging divorce and rediscovering herself. The other woman, Diana, has had setback after setback and is looking to pull herself out of living day to day.

As their paths intersect, They both are pushed and help each other in ways they don’t expect.

This is an easy read, some of the plot points seemed to unrealistic to me. I did enjoy that the characters seemed real.

Thank you to Netgalley and Gallery for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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A story like this can only be told by the best. I might be a little biased, because she is my favorite author, but Kristy Woodson Harvey is one of the best. I needed something to pick me up from all the things going on in my life right now, that just do not seem to make sense.

Feels Like Falling is one of those books that will just suck you in and make you forget about your own problems, with the unlikely friendship and complicated lives of two very different women. If Gray and Diana would have come across one another at any other point in their lives they most likely would not have been friends. Life circumstances created a bond between two complete strangers to rely on one another for so many things in life.

Both women are struggling with their pasts. Broken hearts and complicated family dynamics are the cause and solution to many problems for the women. It’s never too late to figure out who you really are. It’s even better doing this with great friends by your side. I was really routing for Diana in the book. She is tough as nails and just someone you’d really like to have on your side. Gray is definitely a people pleaser and a sweet woman. It was a great contrast to have both of these women together.

Southern Fiction at its best.

4.5⭐️ out of 5

Gray’s world has recently shifted. She is getting divorced, her sister has married an extremist and her mother just died of cancer. Enter Diana. Gray caused Diana to lose her job…well sort of. So, what else are you supposed to do…you move Diana into your guest house.

Diana has struggled her whole life. Foster homes, bad decisions and bad boyfriends have kept her from succeeding. Gray is determined to change this. She gives Diana a job and a place to live. But…above all this, she gives Diana love and friendship.

No one has better characters than Kristy Woodson Harvey. Gray and Diana have great sparring matches and friendship laughter. Then there is Trey. Trey is Gray’s assistant and I just love him! He needs his own novel!

I have enjoyed all of Kristy’s books. However, I think this is her best! I found myself laughing and crying throughout this whole story. I love a book which takes you on a roller coaster ride.

Plus…..THIS COVER! It is the best!

Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey is the perfect book to escape with after a long cold winter. Gray Howard is struggling with her life with her mother's recent death from cancer, her husband dumping her for his assistant, and her sister who is being controlled by her husband. When Gray accidentally gets Diana Harrington fired from her job, Gray offers her the guest house. Can the two women help each other, despite being opposites? This is the perfect summer and relaxing read, that I highly recommend.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.