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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
I'd give it 10 stars if I could....This is such a perfect book that even though I had already read the "sweeter" version before, I could not put it down, I loved Jax all over again and I smiled, cried, and had all that tingly feeling that comes with the perfection of love.
I will beg Abbi Glines for a sequel, I need more Jax Stone and I need him NOW. Of all her books he is my favourite character hands down, they go naughtier on this version but even going spicier they keep that sweet connection and that mutual respect that I can't see clearly in the rest of Gline's books.
I am certainly going to keep re reading this one for a long time, I am planning on leaving it on my bed side table so I can re read bits and pieces every now and then.
I will beg Abbi Glines for a sequel, I need more Jax Stone and I need him NOW. Of all her books he is my favourite character hands down, they go naughtier on this version but even going spicier they keep that sweet connection and that mutual respect that I can't see clearly in the rest of Gline's books.
I am certainly going to keep re reading this one for a long time, I am planning on leaving it on my bed side table so I can re read bits and pieces every now and then.
I loved the storyline that was set out and the personal progression both these characters make. You are emotionally involved throughout and it really keeps you wanting more. I think there could have been more depth to the story to build it up a bit but I loved the potential for more books.
After finishing the latest Abbi Glines book I thought I would go back and re-read the one the first one I read. After all there was a new copy with parts from Jax's point of view so why not? I remembered not loving Breathe, but enjoying it enough to give the next book a read. I didn't really remember the story so it was like reading it for the first time.
I don't know what it is exactly about Breathe that I didn't love, but I still didn't love this story. I think it might be that Jax is famous. Rich I can do, famous I want no part of. Jax is a teen heartthrob. All the girls love him and his music. He has a summer house in Sea Breeze so he can have a few months out of the year to just decompress and not be the famous guy everyone swarms.
Sadie is a sweet girl, going to be a high school senior. Her mom is not much of a mother. Sadie has had to take care of them both for a long time, and now her mother has gotten pregnant again (with no father figure in sight). The mom is supposed to be working cleaning one of the rich people's houses, but the day after Sadie is out of school the mom decides she just can't do it anymore, not with being pregnant. Sadie will have to take her place. I must say Sadie is much kinder to her mother than I would be. Kinder than she should be. I don't know how she deals with it. So she shows up for her first day of work, manages to get the job only to find she is working in Jax's house. Of course she knows who he is, but she is not some super fan with posters on her walls or anything.
Jax tries to stay away, but from the first moment he sees her he is drawn to Sadie. He knows that she won't fit in his world. She doesn't know how to be famous and everything that would entail. He doesn't want to hurt her, knows he is leaving at the end of the summer, but he just can't stay away. He is up front with Sadie about all of this, but she can't stay away either. She sees the little boy behind the famous persona. The real Jax and he loves that. They have some ups and downs, and Sadie home life gets even worse by the end. I really don't know how she dealt with everything. Of course everything works out in the end, this is not a cliffhanger. Jax seemed nice, I liked Sadie, their story was sweet but something was missing for me. Something made me just eh on this book instead of loving it like most of the authors other stories. I think it is the famous aspect, but that doesn't make much sense. I loved Rush, and he has the famous family so....not sure why I didn't love this book. It was good, but I like a lot of the other stories in this series better.
This review was originally posted to Jen in Bookland
I don't know what it is exactly about Breathe that I didn't love, but I still didn't love this story. I think it might be that Jax is famous. Rich I can do, famous I want no part of. Jax is a teen heartthrob. All the girls love him and his music. He has a summer house in Sea Breeze so he can have a few months out of the year to just decompress and not be the famous guy everyone swarms.
Sadie is a sweet girl, going to be a high school senior. Her mom is not much of a mother. Sadie has had to take care of them both for a long time, and now her mother has gotten pregnant again (with no father figure in sight). The mom is supposed to be working cleaning one of the rich people's houses, but the day after Sadie is out of school the mom decides she just can't do it anymore, not with being pregnant. Sadie will have to take her place. I must say Sadie is much kinder to her mother than I would be. Kinder than she should be. I don't know how she deals with it. So she shows up for her first day of work, manages to get the job only to find she is working in Jax's house. Of course she knows who he is, but she is not some super fan with posters on her walls or anything.
Jax tries to stay away, but from the first moment he sees her he is drawn to Sadie. He knows that she won't fit in his world. She doesn't know how to be famous and everything that would entail. He doesn't want to hurt her, knows he is leaving at the end of the summer, but he just can't stay away. He is up front with Sadie about all of this, but she can't stay away either. She sees the little boy behind the famous persona. The real Jax and he loves that. They have some ups and downs, and Sadie home life gets even worse by the end. I really don't know how she dealt with everything. Of course everything works out in the end, this is not a cliffhanger. Jax seemed nice, I liked Sadie, their story was sweet but something was missing for me. Something made me just eh on this book instead of loving it like most of the authors other stories. I think it is the famous aspect, but that doesn't make much sense. I loved Rush, and he has the famous family so....not sure why I didn't love this book. It was good, but I like a lot of the other stories in this series better.
This review was originally posted to Jen in Bookland
Loved it!! Opened my heart to different sorts of relationships out there!
3,5 estrellas.
Para pasar el rato esta bien.
Primero decir que esta historia esta super alejada de la realidad. Ficción pura.
Me molestó que en MUCHAS ocaciones la autora cambió de cierto modo la personalidad del personaje principal, ósea, no puedes definirla como alguien humilde y esforzado y luego, cuando le ofrecen un iPhone lo tome como si nada.
El final me conmovió bastante y por eso no le doy menos estrellas.
Para pasar el rato esta bien.
Primero decir que esta historia esta super alejada de la realidad. Ficción pura.
Me molestó que en MUCHAS ocaciones la autora cambió de cierto modo la personalidad del personaje principal, ósea, no puedes definirla como alguien humilde y esforzado y luego, cuando le ofrecen un iPhone lo tome como si nada.
El final me conmovió bastante y por eso no le doy menos estrellas.
The most aggravating thing about this book was the way the dialog was written: like a cross between a Jane Austen novel and a research paper. The way everyone spoke was completely unrealistic.
I also felt like Jax and Sadie fell in love WAY too easily. All of a sudden they couldn't live without each other. Very strange.
Overall, this novel was hard to read and I wouldn't recommend it.
I also felt like Jax and Sadie fell in love WAY too easily. All of a sudden they couldn't live without each other. Very strange.
Overall, this novel was hard to read and I wouldn't recommend it.
1.5/5 stars.
Ok so I had really high hopes for this because I liked Just For Now. Imagine the disappointment I felt when I started reading and the good story was ruined by the writing style! The sentences felt too short and the writing unsophisticated. I also found it really hard to believe that Sadie fell in love with Jax THAT quickly.
HOWEVER, it did get a lot better after the second half of the book and I mean A LOT better. The story smoothed out, sentences had more a substance to them and I felt like emotions were finally conveyed. For the first half of the book, it didn't feel like a first person point of view, more like some retelling which annoyed me but as I said, this improved with the second half - I could finally feel Sadie's hurt and emotions.
*SPOILERS INTERSPERSED WITH REVIEW*
Elaborating on my dislike of Sadie's falling in with Jax: it was extremely quick and I was just like how did you go from your heart skipping a few beats at his smile one day to being IN LOVE with Jax after another 2 days? It took her like less than a week to fall in love with him. WTF?! But I guess this was made plausible by his actions like the supermarket-9-year-old-girl scene. Again, this would have been way more believable had everything been expressed and written better!
E.g.
"His fingers never left mine as walked back to the house. The only way to explain it is to say that it was very close to an out of body experience. Holding hands with Jax Stone and feeling we connected. He didn't seem like a rock star anymore. He wasn't the guy I saw on posters and in magazines. He wasn't the hottie I'd seen on MTV. He was just Jax."
So um ok I know using short sentences is good for emphasis and that was relevant to the latter of the paragraph but the first bit? I swear there are these things called commas that can be utilised. "Holding hands with Jax Stone and feeling we connected." Um what. That was all there is to explain the "out of body experience"? How about some verbs like "the way his fingers lace through mine made my skin tingle, his long fingers stroking the palm of my hand sent electric currents up my arm and warmed me. That current was like a pull that connected me to him" OR SOMETHING IDK? Because well yeah I had to suffer through paragraphs like that throughout so much of the first half which was why I really didn't connect to Sadie and feel the romance till the second half.
Ah now the second half. Heart-wrenching to say the least. The second half was the saving grace of the novel which was good because I'd rather it get better than it start off good and just go downhill. I finally felt more of Jax's emotions for Sadie and could relate to her and heartbreak as well as everything that was going on in her life (YES FEELS!)
"I love you more than anyone or anything. You've somehow become the song inside of me. It's because I love you so much I'm going to walk out of your life and allow you to heal and find someone worthy of you..."
YES THANK YOU I WAS BEGINNING TO WONDER IF I HAD SOMEHOW BECOME VOID OF EMOTIONS!
See the improvement? More descriptive, more heartfelt, more emotions! So yes for me it got a lot better second half onwards and at one point I really teared up and my heart was clenching and I was like "ERMAGHERD JAX!"
Character wise I thought Jax was a bit too good to be true/fake at first but I soon realised he really WAS drawn to Sadie's immunity to his stardom. I grew to really love him by the second half (yes always that second half of the book I know) and I found his need to be with Sadie really sweet and romantic.
Sadie was annoying at the start because she kept saying how she was so mature (this got really repetitive and I'm just like "OK I GET IT NOW SHOW ME MORE OF HOW YOU'RE SO MATURE") but she seemed really selfish with Jax at times with her jealousy - I'll attribute that to first love and let it slide. I like how she becomes stronger for her mother's birth and finally puts thoughts of Jax aside and she comes out the better person. Now THAT is the maturity I was looking for.
Now, Marcus Hardy. YES I LOVE THIS BOY. Here was a character I liked INSTANTLY. As I was reading, I was aware of Because of Low so I had him and Low at the back of my mind but I still really wanted Sadie to pick Marcus at some point in the story. I think it would have been a nice growing up lesson/self-realisation experience for her - how she would feel dating a normal guy as opposed to how she felt about Jax. But alas it didn't happen and the whole time I was thinking "I'LL HAVE YOU MARCUS <3" lol. I could really feel his love and pain and his actions made me feel so bittersweet. He's so caring, considerate and selfless I just wanted to hold him (*rocks in corner as I said about his feels*) and take away all his hurt.
The good eventually outweighed the bad and I was glad I didn't put this down. The end was definitely worth it!
Ok so I had really high hopes for this because I liked Just For Now. Imagine the disappointment I felt when I started reading and the good story was ruined by the writing style! The sentences felt too short and the writing unsophisticated. I also found it really hard to believe that Sadie fell in love with Jax THAT quickly.
HOWEVER, it did get a lot better after the second half of the book and I mean A LOT better. The story smoothed out, sentences had more a substance to them and I felt like emotions were finally conveyed. For the first half of the book, it didn't feel like a first person point of view, more like some retelling which annoyed me but as I said, this improved with the second half - I could finally feel Sadie's hurt and emotions.
*SPOILERS INTERSPERSED WITH REVIEW*
Elaborating on my dislike of Sadie's falling in with Jax: it was extremely quick and I was just like how did you go from your heart skipping a few beats at his smile one day to being IN LOVE with Jax after another 2 days? It took her like less than a week to fall in love with him. WTF?! But I guess this was made plausible by his actions like the supermarket-9-year-old-girl scene. Again, this would have been way more believable had everything been expressed and written better!
E.g.
"His fingers never left mine as walked back to the house. The only way to explain it is to say that it was very close to an out of body experience. Holding hands with Jax Stone and feeling we connected. He didn't seem like a rock star anymore. He wasn't the guy I saw on posters and in magazines. He wasn't the hottie I'd seen on MTV. He was just Jax."
So um ok I know using short sentences is good for emphasis and that was relevant to the latter of the paragraph but the first bit? I swear there are these things called commas that can be utilised. "Holding hands with Jax Stone and feeling we connected." Um what. That was all there is to explain the "out of body experience"? How about some verbs like "the way his fingers lace through mine made my skin tingle, his long fingers stroking the palm of my hand sent electric currents up my arm and warmed me. That current was like a pull that connected me to him" OR SOMETHING IDK? Because well yeah I had to suffer through paragraphs like that throughout so much of the first half which was why I really didn't connect to Sadie and feel the romance till the second half.
Ah now the second half. Heart-wrenching to say the least. The second half was the saving grace of the novel which was good because I'd rather it get better than it start off good and just go downhill. I finally felt more of Jax's emotions for Sadie and could relate to her and heartbreak as well as everything that was going on in her life (YES FEELS!)
"I love you more than anyone or anything. You've somehow become the song inside of me. It's because I love you so much I'm going to walk out of your life and allow you to heal and find someone worthy of you..."
YES THANK YOU I WAS BEGINNING TO WONDER IF I HAD SOMEHOW BECOME VOID OF EMOTIONS!
See the improvement? More descriptive, more heartfelt, more emotions! So yes for me it got a lot better second half onwards and at one point I really teared up and my heart was clenching and I was like "ERMAGHERD JAX!"
Character wise I thought Jax was a bit too good to be true/fake at first but I soon realised he really WAS drawn to Sadie's immunity to his stardom. I grew to really love him by the second half (yes always that second half of the book I know) and I found his need to be with Sadie really sweet and romantic.
Sadie was annoying at the start because she kept saying how she was so mature (this got really repetitive and I'm just like "OK I GET IT NOW SHOW ME MORE OF HOW YOU'RE SO MATURE") but she seemed really selfish with Jax at times with her jealousy - I'll attribute that to first love and let it slide. I like how she becomes stronger for her mother's birth and finally puts thoughts of Jax aside and she comes out the better person. Now THAT is the maturity I was looking for.
Now, Marcus Hardy. YES I LOVE THIS BOY. Here was a character I liked INSTANTLY. As I was reading, I was aware of Because of Low so I had him and Low at the back of my mind but I still really wanted Sadie to pick Marcus at some point in the story. I think it would have been a nice growing up lesson/self-realisation experience for her - how she would feel dating a normal guy as opposed to how she felt about Jax. But alas it didn't happen and the whole time I was thinking "I'LL HAVE YOU MARCUS <3" lol. I could really feel his love and pain and his actions made me feel so bittersweet. He's so caring, considerate and selfless I just wanted to hold him (*rocks in corner as I said about his feels*) and take away all his hurt.
The good eventually outweighed the bad and I was glad I didn't put this down. The end was definitely worth it!
This book was so cute. Jax Stone gave me butterflies in my stomach he was so freaking cute.
One of the worst cases of “I’m not like other girls” I’ve ever read. I don’t understand how I could have liked this before. Couldn’t even finish it this time. DNF at 38% of the book.