kricketa's review against another edition
4.0
i liked this a lot. after her brother will's public suicide attempt and descent into schizophrenia, katie kittrell leaves for boarding school in west virginia. new friends, her boyfriend drew, and her talent for swimming help her forget about her family in pennsylvania, especially will. when her friends ask, it's easier to say will is dead.
what i loved most here were the characters- so complicated and realistic. estella: the popular bitch who can also be sweet and loving. katie's dad: a workaholic who, despite appearances, really is trying to keep his family together. and my absolute favorite, katie's roommate mazzie: where do i even start? highly recommended.
what i loved most here were the characters- so complicated and realistic. estella: the popular bitch who can also be sweet and loving. katie's dad: a workaholic who, despite appearances, really is trying to keep his family together. and my absolute favorite, katie's roommate mazzie: where do i even start? highly recommended.
najazi's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed this book - it had an interesting story line and I felt like the characters in the book represented some of the teenagers that you find in real life.
The story felt like it kept rushing through parts that it would have been better to go more indepth, and towards the end it just dropped off - I didn't feel like the epilogue really finished the story either.
The two story dimensions between Katie and Will didn't feel like they went together well either, but I saw how Warman tried to have the two interlinking stories.
As I said, I enjoyed the different dynamics and the overall story, but it could have gone deeper and not as rushed as it was.
The story felt like it kept rushing through parts that it would have been better to go more indepth, and towards the end it just dropped off - I didn't feel like the epilogue really finished the story either.
The two story dimensions between Katie and Will didn't feel like they went together well either, but I saw how Warman tried to have the two interlinking stories.
As I said, I enjoyed the different dynamics and the overall story, but it could have gone deeper and not as rushed as it was.
valeriefm's review against another edition
5.0
I love this book. This is the perfect coming of age novel.
tracemus's review
2.0
This was an okay book. I was definitely left wanting more. I felt like there could have been a much better story, and felt misled by the description. There are certain parts of the story that I found ridiculous, and thought that the characters were unrealistic. It's definitely a different take on the family, and granted my family is nothing like this, I still wasn't believing all that happened.
Then when the book ended, there was so much left undone. There were loose ends that were cleaned up in an epilogue, which was fast and uneventful.
I'm glad I read it, but would never buy it.
Then when the book ended, there was so much left undone. There were loose ends that were cleaned up in an epilogue, which was fast and uneventful.
I'm glad I read it, but would never buy it.
__allison__'s review
4.0
I really enjoyed this book.
This is probably my last read for 2021 and I'm okay with that.
So, in Breathless, our protagonist is Katie Kitrell. Katie is a 15 year old girl whom is sent off to a boarding school after a horrible tragedy. There, she meets Estella, Lindsey, Drew, and Mazzie.
I loved Mazzie so much. She was definitely my favorite character. She was funny, serious, and just an overall good friend to Katie.
I did cry at the end so beware.
I loved watching Katie go through her first love, first heartbreak, and so much more.
As the book progresses, Katie is a sophomore, junior, and a senior. You watch as the people around her become her family.
I highly suggest this book for an amazing, never boring, read.
This is probably my last read for 2021 and I'm okay with that.
So, in Breathless, our protagonist is Katie Kitrell. Katie is a 15 year old girl whom is sent off to a boarding school after a horrible tragedy. There, she meets Estella, Lindsey, Drew, and Mazzie.
I loved Mazzie so much. She was definitely my favorite character. She was funny, serious, and just an overall good friend to Katie.
I did cry at the end so beware.
I loved watching Katie go through her first love, first heartbreak, and so much more.
As the book progresses, Katie is a sophomore, junior, and a senior. You watch as the people around her become her family.
I highly suggest this book for an amazing, never boring, read.
nlevesque27's review
3.0
I actually really enjoyed this book. I liked the way it was written, and I really liked the subject matter.
nicolek86's review
3.0
Eh. The story was pretty good, the writing was pretty good, but the subject was a major downer.
librariann's review
2.0
Swimmer Katie and her older brother Will live in a hick town in SW Pennsylvania, but her family is wealthy in comparison to the rest of their neighbors. Katie blames her brother's schizophrenia (diagnosed as drug induced) on the bullying Will received because he was "rich" and therefore different. In order to distance her from Will, who has grown increasingly violent and erratic, Katie is sent to boarding school her sophomore year. She falls in with the beautiful people, and tells them her brother is dead. As the years pass, Katie struggles with her relationship with her brother, parents, and other students. A lazy girl's "Prep."
Breathless is one of those books that is interesting, even sort of enjoyable while you read it, but which doesn't hold up when you think about it. Example: the school's convenient anti-technology policy enables a key plot point, but when reading the author's note (and realizing that she based it "80 - 90 percent" on her own life) it becomes a lazy method of avoiding the fact that the story happened 10-15 years ago.
Breathless is one of those books that is interesting, even sort of enjoyable while you read it, but which doesn't hold up when you think about it. Example: the school's convenient anti-technology policy enables a key plot point, but when reading the author's note (and realizing that she based it "80 - 90 percent" on her own life) it becomes a lazy method of avoiding the fact that the story happened 10-15 years ago.
_ninahannah's review
1.0
Oh boy. So I needed a book that wouldn’t require much thinking after i got my wisdom teeth out, and i made the mistake of choosing this. But honestly it was fun. It was a lot of fun to read because it was so terrible. It actually started off pretty good but then it just went downhill. Really poor and harmful portrayal of mental illness, and very cliche and corny characters. It was also completely predictable. I’m sorry to give it a Poor review but it really wasn’t good.