Breathless: Review

Breathless by Jennifer Niven

Rating: 4/5 stars

Review: THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING! With that all in caps you are probably wondering why I gave it 4/5 stars but keep on reading to find out. This is about 18 years old, Claude, whose parents divorced and her mom takes the two of them to a remote island for summer break where she meets a guy named Jeremiah Crew. She tries to make sure she doesn't fall in love so her heart doesn't shatter again and to write her story. I haven't read any of the other Jennifer Niven's books but this book was really emotional and actually made me cry. I loved the writing of this book and the setting. The way the author described the remote island sounded wonderful but also horrible because there wasn't any wifi and there were many mosquitos. This book was something I have never read before and loved it for so many reasons.

I enjoyed the characters in this book, Claude and Miah. We learn about how Claude struggles with her parent's divorce, losing her friends, feeling lost, and her heart. I loved Claude's and Miah's relationship because they understood each other even though they knew they only have a couple of weeks together until their summer vacation ends. But the romance throughout this book just pulled so many emotions out of me that I didn't even know would be possible. Not only was their romance but also friendship. Claude and her long time best friend, Saz, hurt each other's feelings when Claude left with her mom to the island. There wasn't much developing with it but there was a small amount. It was wonderful seeing Miah and Claude both develop throughout the story and letting go of their past.

I did have some problems with it. Some small bits were that I wish there was a huge development with Claude and Saz's relationship. The main problem was the ending. START SPOIL LOOK AWAY* {I don't know why the author ended the character's relationship like that. I think they should have had some connection afterword or at least an epilogue that they meet again. I cried because of the ending being ended like that because they went through so much and they deserved each other.} END OF SPOILER* I cried about the ending but you will never know until you read the book and know why I had a problem with the ending. It was such a good book and I'm for sure buying the final copy. 

Criteria:

Plot- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Main Character- ⭐⭐⭐⭐★

Other Characters- ⭐⭐⭐⭐★

Writing Style- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Pacing- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ending- ⭐⭐⭐⭐★

Romance: kissing; sex (not super detailed)

Book Cover- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

*This ebook was sent to me by the publisher to give an honest review in return*

Breathless: Welcome Post

Breathless by Jennifer Niven

Publisher: Knopf Books

Genre: YA Contemporary

Age: 15+

 

Summary:

Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is making plans: college in the fall, become a famous author, and maybe--finally--have sex. She doesn't even need to be in love. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he's leaving Claude's mother. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and her future anything but under control.

After: Claude's mom whisks them away to the last place Claude could imagine nursing a broken heart: a remote, mosquito-infested island off the coast of Georgia. But then Jeremiah Crew happens. Miah is a local trail guide with a passion for photography--and a past he doesn't like to talk about. He's brash and enigmatic, and even more infuriatingly, he's the only one who seems to see Claude for who she wants to be. So when Claude decides to sleep with Miah, she tells herself it's just sex, nothing more. There's not enough time to fall in love, especially if it means putting her already broken heart at risk.

Compulsively readable and impossible to forget, Jennifer Niven's luminous new novel is an insightful portrait of a young woman ready to write her own story.

About the Author:

By the time I was ten, I had already written numerous songs, a poem for Parker Stevenson ("If there were a Miss America for men, You would surely win"), two autobiographies (All About Me and My Life in Indiana: I Will Never Be Happy Again), a Christmas story, several picture books (which I illustrated myself) featuring the Doodle Bugs from Outer Space, a play about Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister entitled Blindness Strikes Mary, a series of prison mysteries, a collection of short stories featuring me as the main character (an internationally famous rock star detective), and a partially finished novel about Vietnam. I was also an excellent speller from a very early age.

In 2000, I started writing full-time, and I haven't stopped... I've written nine books (#9 will be out Oct 4, 2016), and when I'm not working on the tenth, I'm writing the screenplay for All the Bright Places, contributing to my web magazine, Germ (www.germmagazine.com), thinking up new books, and dabbling in TV. I am always writing.