Breathe into Me by Sara FawkesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
***I RECEIVED AN ARC FOR THIS BOOK FROM NETGALLEY IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW ***
Lacey St. James is a young girl whose life has been rapidly turned upside down. Living in a trailer park with her little brother, her drunk mother and her mean grandmother her life is a big mess. Her abusive current boyfriend doesn't help when he becomes her ex-boyfriend he begins to stalk her just what she needs. She is feeling like the world hates her, then she meets Everett and he makes her believe maybe her miserable existence can be turned into a life worth living.
Everett is house sitting his family’s mansion for the summer. Lacey can’t understand, what he sees in her. They first form a friendship as he helps her study for her GED but the sexual tension is there from the start. Everett has secrets though, can Lacey forgive him when she finds out what he can't bring himself to tell her for fear of losing her forever.
I really loved this story, it was sweet, tender and at times very emotional. Right in the first chapter I fell in love with Lacey. She had been through so much in her short life and she still managed to push through. Working two dead end jobs and helping to raise her little brother while dodging her abusive grandmother. Then she meets Everett and everything changes for both of them. The friendship to start was so sweet, having that friendship first made the later intimate relationship more believable. This book is very different from the others I have read from this author and I have to say Sara Fawkes did a great job. She dealt with some current issues that young people face today in a way that can make people take notice. The abuse and cyber bullying parts of the story were well written and emotional. The only thing I would say I wished the book had was Everette's POV sooner, the author starts giving us Everette's POV at chapter 16 would have like to hear what he was thinking in some earlier chapters.
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