The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald follows Abi Knight and her quest for answers after her daughter is discovered brain dead after a fall from a bridge. The police quickly rule it an accident but Abi isn't convinced. Told alternately between Abi in present day and Olivia before the fall, we piece together more of the secrets this family held and you will be left trying to figure out what actually happened.

This book was wonderfully written, and I completely empathized with Abi as she tried to make sense of everything. The characters felt real and raw, and I couldn't get to the end quick enough. I highly recommend this book!

What a rollercoaster. Christina McDonald really delivered in this compelling read. Mom Abi is walking a tightrope between sheltering her daughter Olivia, and giving her room to grow. But when Olivia has an accident, Abi is left doubting herself, and everyone around her. She sets out to find out if it was truly an accident, or something more sinister. The twists and turns will give you a page turner until the very end.
This is Christina McDonald’s first adult book, and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next. Will definitely be recommending this for book clubs! #NetGalley #TheNightOliviaFell

How well do you truly know those closest to you? Perhaps not a well as you think. Abi Knight gets the phone call that every parent dreds. Her teenage daughter, Olivia, has been found unconscious below a bridge. She is now brain dead and on life support to allow her to carry her baby as long as possible. A baby that Abi did not know about..

Was Olivia pushed or did she jump? Although bruises are found on her wrists, police have ruled this an accident. Abi needs to know the truth.

The Night Olivia Fell is a gut wrenching and suspenseful journey of a mother, a daughter, a best friend and a boyfriend all looking for their own truth. Discovering that sometimes by trying to protect others, we are doing more harm to them then we realize. Who can you trust with your truth?

The Night Olivia Fell is an intriguing mystery that is told through two different perspectives: one is from the perspective of Abi, a thirty-something single mother of an 18 year old, and the other from her daughter, Olivia. Abi was a young mom to Olivia and is doing her best to be a better mother to her daughter than her mother was to her. Olivia is in her senior year of high school and is getting tired of her mother's overprotectiveness. She also has a long term boyfriend, a needy best friend, and she has found herself developing feelings for another boy. But the biggest mystery in her life is that she has no idea who her father is. One day, while on a college tour, she finds that she may have stumbled into a clue as to her father's identity.

The Night Olivia Fell is described as being similar to Reconstructing Amelia, and I would agree, the books are pretty similar. The main difference in this book and Reconstructing Amelia (and this isn't a spoiler because its listed in the Goodreads summary) is that Olivia is pregnant at the time of her fall off the bridge. Since she is pregnant, the doctors keep her on life support to give her baby a chance at survival. Further complicating matters, for some reason the police have ruled Olivia's fall off a bridge as an accident, and are not investigating what happened to Olivia. So Abi, with the help of a victim advocate employed at the police department, does some investigating on her own to determine what actually happened the night her daughter fell.

As I was reading this book, I definitely enjoyed Abi's chapters more, but that is probably because I can currently relate better to the thirty-something mother than to a moody 18 year old. That being said, I definitely enjoyed the story, and there is certainly no shortage of mysteries to unravel in this book. The Night Olivia Fell is an emotional read, especially the last chapter (there may or may not have been tears from me). My heart broke for all of the characters in this story and the writer did a great job creating realistic characters that I could relate to. I would recommend this book to anyone who liked Reconstructing Amelia and will also say this book lived up to its high praise.

*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review!*

An excellent story I could hardly put down. Complete with mystery, suspense, and heartache, this story is one full of love and loss.

"It reminded me that the first hour of every new day starts with darkness--and then the sunshine comes."

As this story alternates between the perspective of a mother and her daughter, some chapters felt very YA and the others come straight from a mystery. If you love YA like me, this won't be a problem. I enjoyed seeing the pieces come together through Olivia's past and also her mother's detective work in the present. It may have been slightly predictable but I enjoyed the story and felt compelled to keep reading and see it all come to a head.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A fantastic debut novel by Christina McDonald. Her writing is beautiful and she's an amazing storyteller. This suspense (and it really is suspenseful) novel took me on a wild ride. I was filled with lots of emotions (I even cried that last chapter)! From the very beginning of the story, I was drawn in all the way until the very end. I liked how the story was told from the present ,gave you glimpses of the past and how we got ended up in the current situation. I can't imagine having to watch my daughter laying "dead" in a hospital bed, while we grew a child in her womb, only to have to let her go once the baby was born.

This is a book you don't want to miss! Fans of Reconstructing Amelia will fall so deeply into Abi's search for what happened to her daughter, Olivia, on the night she fell from a bridge and became brain dead, that they will cry with her and have their heart race every time they're sure they have the suspect in their minds. This isn't a book you can put down. So many twists and turns, so many possible suspects but the quest for why keeps you pushing until the end, when it suddenly becomes clear.
I couldn't force myself to stop reading this, even if I tried. Abi and Olivia were so well thought out, it's hard to believe they were only a work of a fiction. My heart broke for each of them and I could actually feel my heart racing numerous times throughout their journeys and then, I felt the love and connection to Zoe, as if I were there. This is one story that will stay with me for a long time. It flows so well from Abi to Olivia and captures you right from the start, never letting go.

The Night Olivia Fell

A gripping and suspenseful story of a mother’s fight for the truth of her daughter’s accident.

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SUMMARY
Abi Knight is startled awake by the ringing of the phone in the early hours of the morning. It’s a call no mother ever wants to get. Her daughter, Olivia, is at the hospital. There has been an accident. She had fallen off a bridge and was found on the embankment. The seventeen-year-old senior is not only brain dead, but she is also pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. The police are not investigating the fall despite the angry bruises circling Olivia wrists. Abi is livid by the lack of action and is determine to find out what happened on the bridge.

REVIEW
THE NIGHT OLIVIA FELL is a cleverly-layered story of Abi and Olivia. It explores mother daughter conflicts and effortlessly blends issues from the past with the present. Chapters easily alternate between Abi and Olivia. Chapters told from Olivia’s view point share the months leading up to the accident, and her struggles with friendships, boyfriends and finding the truth behind her absent father. Chapters told from Abi’s view focus on her own past as well as her quest for answers to Olivia’s accident.

It an emotionally intense story with a perfect cast of characters. My favorite part was Abi’s nonstop fight to find the truth about Olivia’s last days, Author Christina McDonald grabs her reader from the start and does not let go in this fabulous debut novel.

Thanks to Netgalley, Gallery Books, and Christina McDonald for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher Gallery Books
Published February 5, 2019
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How very difficult it would be to lose your child and not know why and how it happened! That is every parent ‘s nightmare. Christina McDonald did an excellent job of expressing all the emotions that the mother, Abi felt. It is a sad, heartfelt storyline, but also a joyful one. The characters in the book are very fleshed out and likable. My heart was very heavy for Abi, the mother. She was very brave in her pursuit of finding the truth. I read this book in one sitting because I needed to know how the ending all came together. The author did a fine job on her debut novel. Or me, a solid 5 stars.
Thank you to NetGally and the publisher for an advance copy read of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a story about a 18 year girl who fell or was pushed from a bridge. This book tells Olivia story before she fell. It also tells the story after she fell from her mom's point of view, (Abigail). Abigail is bound and determined to find out what happened to Olivia that night. This was a good book. I enjoyed reading this book. Would like to read more books by this author. . I want to thank netgalley for the opportunity to read this book for a honest opinion.

I loved The Night Olivia Fell! It left me guessing throughout and pulled me in immediately.

While I felt Abi was extremely overprotective, it likely wouldn't have made a bit of difference to what happened to Olivia if she weren't. It did take a while for me to like her character because of the helicopter parenting, but I got over that.

The characters were so real and varied, just as you find in your real life. I also learned something about WA law that I hadn't known before. I found this particular law fascinating and I do wonder how often something like this happens.

If you like a mystery that will pull you in, keep you interested and not let you go until the end, this is the book for you.

Thank you to Netgalley, the authors and publisher for approving my request for an ARC. My thoughts are my own.

This book really surprised me. Part mother-daughter drama, part mystery thriller with some YA romance mixed in, it held my attention from beginning until end. And speaking of the end--- my eyes were definitely sweating at the end.

I can usually figure out the twist or bad guy in a mystery/thriller, but there were so many suspects in this book that I couldn't nail down who it was that was responsible for Olivia's fall. But when it became clear who it was, I realized that the clues had been given to us all along.

Interesting, multi-layered characters, an original premise, and some heartfelt moments make this book a fast-paced and fresh read.

Thank you Netgalley and publishers for an advance e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

"The Night Olivia Fell" is a suspenseful book. It centers around a mother (Abi) whose teenage daughter (Olivia) had been declared brain dead after falling from a bridge. However, upon closer examination, it seems as though it might have not been such an accident.

However, she can't figure out who would want to hurt her kind, loving daughter.

As the story progresses, you are given reasons for why a few someones might have wanted to harm her daughter - and you find out more about the mother through a few flashbacks. The story is told in alternating chapters and alternating viewpoints between Abi and Olivia - which is a method that used to not be a favorite but one that I have since come to appreciate.

Although part of the ending was predictable, I still appreciated this story and found it compelling.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for the advanced copy! It will be released the 5th of February.

This had an interesting concept, but I found it to just be an average or okay read. I had hoped for more suspense then there was in the book. Some of the "twists" weren't all that surprising. A lot more predictability than what I've come to expect in this genre.

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley, but I wasn't required to leave a positive review.

Holy freakin’ cow! This is a debut?! UNBELIEVABLE!

5 stars! Easily! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Night Olivia Fell has everything I look for in a mystery/thriller. It sucked me in from page 1 and I couldn’t put it down. Abi gets a call in the middle of the night that her daughter, Olivia, has has a terrible accident. Or was it?

As a mother myself, I could totally relate to Abi’s character. Her protectiveness, her constant worrying, her skepticism regarding the “accident”:and her fight for justice for Olivia - it took me on an emotional roller coaster!

My review could never do any justice for this fantastic book! Just read it. ASAP!

Thank you to NetGalley, Christina McDonald and Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books for the opportunity to read this in exchange for my review.

This was the last book I didn’t put down after reading just a portion of it so I’ve had time between finishing it and writing a review which
Is refreshing. I thought the writing was a good combination of plot driven and character study with plot the bigger plus. I like that while
this is not in the fiction category it delivers on the level of fiction albeit literature showing the ability we have to alter reflect and have an
Impact on the lives of others...hard to find in the publishing for profit world these days.

I didn't figure this one out until the very end. So many possibilities....

This is a very suspenseful book. So many secrets that unfold one by one, adding to the suspense. I can not fathom how Abi managed to stay sane through it all. I totally get how she felt like the police weren't doing anything and she had to find out what happened, but wow did she ever get put through the wringer trying to question everyone.

The story is told from Olivia's point of view and Abi's. The reader get to see what Abi is working to uncover then we see the event from Olivia' perspective and why she did what she did.

A very emotional story as well as suspenseful. Be ready for a roller coaster ride with this one.

I liked the fast pace and trying to figure out what happened on that bridge that horrible night.

If you enjoy a good thriller, you will like this book.

Abi Knight has to live a mother's worst nightmare. Her 16 year old daughter Olivia fell from a bridge after being assaulted and is now braindead. Olivia is also pregnant, something Abi hadn't known until Olivia's doctor informed her at the hospital. Her daughter will now be kept on life support until the baby dies or can be delivered. Abi puts all her energy and effort into discovering who was with Olivia that fateful night.

For a girl who didn't have any enemies, Abi thought, it turns out there were at least five people who might have motives to want Olivia out of their lives or dead. For months Olivia hadn't been herself, which Abi became more aware of as she thinks back over the events of those months. So much had been going on in Olivia's life that Abi wasn't aware of and Abi comes to learn just how much Olivia hated and resented the control that Abi exerted over her life. Control that Abi considered protecting and nurturing Olivia, but Olivia considered overbearing and repressive.

As the book introduces us to each of the people who might want to harm Olivia, we also meet people who may not have wanted to harm her but still were instrumental in keeping the truth from coming out of what really happened that night. Abi is a mom driven to find out the truth no matter how much it hurts because she'll never get her daughter back. With so many people in the book who might have a motive, I wasn't positive who was responsible for her injuries. Olivia did put herself in harm's way many times, and we read some chapters from her point of view. Knowing her fate and reading her chapters, as they are happening, makes it hard to handle that we can't just stop her from taking the risks that she takes. I have never been a mother but I can see the frustration a parent would feel, wanting to protect their children and being helpless to do so.

Thank you to Gallery, Threshold, Pocket Books, and NetGalley for this ARC.

This story pulled on my mama heartstrings and I couldn't stop reading to find out how Olivia fell and ended up in a coma. There were several characters who appeared guilty or at least that's what the author wanted you to think. The ending was so obvious that I completely overlooked it! This was a quick and easy read.