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Breathe In, Bleed Out
by Brian McAuley
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley. (Advanced Copy read thru NetGalley)
I wanted to love this book, the idea was good the execution was meh.
One year ago Hannah Reynolds stumbled out of the snowy wilderness onto the road riddled with frostbite and racked with hypothermia. A truck driver found her half-dead and rushed her to the hospital, her fiance Ben wasn't so lucky, his body was never found. Only Hannah emerged from the wilderness and it was only Hannah's story of her trying to drag Ben's body to safety that returned with her. Now haunted by the ghost of his memory Hannah has become a shell of the person she was, overly dependent on Xanax Hannah makes a terrible mistake at her job as a Medical Intern that puts her on leave. After an appointment with her psychiatrist, Dr. James Grady, Hannah is confronted by her best friend Tess Sampson who is determined to get her friend back and persuades her to go on a healing retreat at the exclusive Avidya Healing Retreat. Just a weekend of Hannah, Tess and their friends under the guide of Guru Pax may be the thing Hannah needs to pull her out of her stupor or it maybe the thing that triggers her trauma and pushes her over the edge. As the weekend goes on and more people start to disappear, Hannah starts to question her sanity and the truth of what happened to Ben during their last trip together starts to seep out. Is Hannah responsible for Ben's disappearance, is she behind her friends' vanishing from the retreat, or is there a dark and more sinister thing out there?
Spoilery things mentioned here.
There were several things that kinda took me out of the story such as: a character with an addiction to a prescriptive medication going cold turkey with no side effect; the inclusion of a side character who really didn't add anything to the plot - he was just a FACE to be used; the weekend seemed longer than it should be; I did not care about the 3 of the characters who were killed to care that they died, one I did feel bad for and the last two felt anticlimactic. Dehydration and lack of hygiene felt like they should have been more important topics. Hannah is a Medical Intern which means she graduated medical school and is in her first year of residency but its also been a year since Ben died so the timeline there feels off to me personally. The story line with Mr Fox kinda goes no where.
And this one is gonna sound weird but this book kinda gave the same vibes as the movie Ripper: Letter From Hell (2001) even though they arent the same plot wise or really story wise.
I wanted to love this book, the idea was good the execution was meh.
One year ago Hannah Reynolds stumbled out of the snowy wilderness onto the road riddled with frostbite and racked with hypothermia. A truck driver found her half-dead and rushed her to the hospital, her fiance Ben wasn't so lucky, his body was never found. Only Hannah emerged from the wilderness and it was only Hannah's story of her trying to drag Ben's body to safety that returned with her. Now haunted by the ghost of his memory Hannah has become a shell of the person she was, overly dependent on Xanax Hannah makes a terrible mistake at her job as a Medical Intern that puts her on leave. After an appointment with her psychiatrist, Dr. James Grady, Hannah is confronted by her best friend Tess Sampson who is determined to get her friend back and persuades her to go on a healing retreat at the exclusive Avidya Healing Retreat. Just a weekend of Hannah, Tess and their friends under the guide of Guru Pax may be the thing Hannah needs to pull her out of her stupor or it maybe the thing that triggers her trauma and pushes her over the edge. As the weekend goes on and more people start to disappear, Hannah starts to question her sanity and the truth of what happened to Ben during their last trip together starts to seep out. Is Hannah responsible for Ben's disappearance, is she behind her friends' vanishing from the retreat, or is there a dark and more sinister thing out there?
Spoilery things mentioned here.
There were several things that kinda took me out of the story such as: a character with an addiction to a prescriptive medication going cold turkey with no side effect; the inclusion of a side character who really didn't add anything to the plot - he was just a FACE to be used; the weekend seemed longer than it should be; I did not care about the 3 of the characters who were killed to care that they died, one I did feel bad for and the last two felt anticlimactic. Dehydration and lack of hygiene felt like they should have been more important topics. Hannah is a Medical Intern which means she graduated medical school and is in her first year of residency but its also been a year since Ben died so the timeline there feels off to me personally. The story line with Mr Fox kinda goes no where.
And this one is gonna sound weird but this book kinda gave the same vibes as the movie Ripper: Letter From Hell (2001) even though they arent the same plot wise or really story wise.