3.5 stars. The Five Stages of Falling in Love started out really strong and had me hooked from the very start of the prologue. It kind of fizzled out for me as it progressed and didn't end as strong as I would have liked. It was still a really good book though and I enjoyed it. 
 The author did an amazing job at making me feel the grief and overwhelming feelings that Liz and her family experienced throughout the book. Although this book didn't make me sob or cry freely, I teared up several times and had a tear slip out at one point. The pain, grief, and chaos was beautifully written. One thing that really stuck out to me and pulled me out of the story a few times was that the oldest daughter Abby (6-7 years old during the course of the story) was having such a difficult time with her grief process and having a really hard time at school; yet with all of the repeated visits to the school to discuss Abby's behavior or latest stunts she pulled, no one thought it important or helpful to suggest that Abby speak to a children's therapist or grief counselor? Especially since Liz's sister, Emma, is close to finishing school to be a psychologist. I would think that would be a given but it never happened and it didn't make sense to me. 
 I feel like the story was wrapped up a bit too quickly with general statements and ideas such as "kids grew up", etc. without any real personalized detail that I would have liked to have seen. 
 Audible: I added the whispersync audible narration to this Kindle book. I would not recommend this audible. I really did not care for it so I only listened to about an hour total. My biggest problems with it were the voices, the pacing, and the emphasis. I couldn't stand the voice the narrator used for Grady and she didn't do male voices well in general. The women's voices didn't sound all that different from each other either and the kids pretty much sounded the same. Her cadence didn't really work for me with this story during the parts that I listened to and I was bothered by her word emphasis in certain parts and the inflection used with some of her word enunciation. The narrator has a really pleasant voice in general so I think she would be great a reading something that doesn't have different characters and doesn't have strong emotion attached to it.