Falling.

FALLEN starts as a more straightforward romance than other recent Green books. Emma, an English ex-pat who has left the world of banking for a simpler life in the suburbs, meets local boy Dominic when she rents a run-down house near the beach from him. The two quickly — basically, immediately -- fall in love, and complications ensue with Dominic’s six-year-old son, Jesse. As one of me least favorite things, in literature AND real life, is adults blaming children for romantic problems, I struggled with this one. A six-year-old not getting on board with your instantly jumping into his dad’...