Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not impressed

I had high expectations for this book. Normally a story line involving a father/daughter relationship would suck me right in, but Breaking Her Fall just didn't do it for me. Peppering the teenaged characters' dialogue with profanity didn't convince me that Goodwin has a firm grasp on their insights. There was a world of material that the author could have focused on without delving into the neighbors' sorrows and other tangents. I felt as though the daughter's depression and the theme of abandonment were not given the development that could have made this book wow instead of blah.