Synopsis:
Emma leaves
Weslyn and everyone in it behind to attend Stanford University, just as she
always intended. A shell of her former self, she is not the same girl. She is
broken, and the only way that she’ll be whole again is through forgiveness.
Emma must find a way to forgive herself and recognize her own worth before she
can receive the love she deserves. This final installment will have readers
holding their breath until the very last page
Leia’s
Review:
Rebecca Donovan, you owe me a
manicure!!!
This was literally
nail biting.
I have waited for
this book for a little over a year. It’s probably one of my most anticipated
books….EVER. I was terrified going into it that it may not live up to hype that
I had built up for it.
I was wrong.
This book ripped my
heart out, shattered it, and put it back together again. It’s taken me over 12
hours to process it just so I can write a review.
This book starts
out 2 years after the end of Barely Breathing. Emma is a different person than
she was during Reason to Breathe and Barely Breathing. I am going to be honest,
she was dark. Really dark. And I was angry with her for the first half of the
book. I was angry at the person she had let herself become, angry with the
choices she made and angry at the fact she let so many people dictate her life
when she had always been so much stronger than that.
And then we had
probably the most tragic moment of this book – and I was still angry at Emma.
Just pissed at what she had allowed to happen to herself. But then she receives
something that completely shatters her. And I was wrecked with sobs. I felther pain. It was real. I could physically feel the blow she
had taken. I felt guilty for ever being angry at her because I realized she had
no way to cope with the disasters that had happened in her life.
Evan and Sara keep
trying to pull her out from the dark place that she has succumbed to. When Evan
finds a way to help her release her pain in a healthy way – I sagged with
relief. It was a weight lifted from me. But there was still so much guilt and pain
in her.
Evan is a new
person in this book – I fell hopelessly in love with him in Reason to Breathe –
it was impossible not to. The man he became in Out of Breath was….I just can’t
put in to words how much I loved him.
He was stronger. He
was determined. He was vigilant.
Their relationship
developed so well throughout this book. The connection that they made was
electric. They always had something special, and I loved that. But it was
always overshadowed by secrets and lies and one person trying to protect the
other. Finally accepting that neither of them can do that they are able to move
forward, and while they don’t want to “relive” the past…they both understand
that they have to “revisit” it so that they can grow together.
I can honestly say
that I don’t think I have ever been more emotionally invested in characters
like I was with the characters in this series. Even the secondary characters,
like Sara. The emotion that Rebecca Donovan was able to convey to us from the
first line in Reason to Breathe to the last line of Out of Breath was so real
and raw. I screamed, I cried, I laughed and I healed.
This book was the
perfect ending to this unbelievable series. I couldn’t have asked for more
(well, I could – because I can never get enough Evan).
Thank you, Mrs.
Donovan for solidifying all the reasons I love to read.
*5 Breathtaking Stars*
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