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Every Breath
by Ellie Marney
4.5 Stars
I won this in a Christmas giveaway run by the YA division of the publisher Allen & Unwin. I entered for this book based solely on the recommendation of Kirsti from Melbourne on my Mind/Ravenclaw Reading Room and my girl did not disappoint!
10 pages in I realised this was a Sherlock retelling with a female Watson set in Australia and I particularly hyperventilated from excitement. Over the next two busy days I sent every spare second devouring this story and what a way to end the year. I adored everything about Mycroft and Watts relationship and their friendships with Mai and Gus. I ship them all so hard!
The author absolutely nailed the various stages of grief and loss and the trauma of discovering the body of someone you care for and the emotional journey of trying to make sense of their absence in your world. There was so many instances of fantastic representation and diversity of world view, culture and race.
There was one or two instances were things weren’t quite right, a character describing a distance in feet instead of metres, there being no school uniform (very abnormal for schooling in Australia) etc but they are minor quibbles!
I would commend Marney for not using a single one of the YA tropes I hate. No sudden release of a breathe she didn’t know she was holding, Watts’ family cares about what she’s doing and who she spends time with and calls her out on a number of occasions!
Overall, I would highly recommend this book. Buy it, read it, love it!
I won this in a Christmas giveaway run by the YA division of the publisher Allen & Unwin. I entered for this book based solely on the recommendation of Kirsti from Melbourne on my Mind/Ravenclaw Reading Room and my girl did not disappoint!
10 pages in I realised this was a Sherlock retelling with a female Watson set in Australia and I particularly hyperventilated from excitement. Over the next two busy days I sent every spare second devouring this story and what a way to end the year. I adored everything about Mycroft and Watts relationship and their friendships with Mai and Gus. I ship them all so hard!
The author absolutely nailed the various stages of grief and loss and the trauma of discovering the body of someone you care for and the emotional journey of trying to make sense of their absence in your world. There was so many instances of fantastic representation and diversity of world view, culture and race.
There was one or two instances were things weren’t quite right, a character describing a distance in feet instead of metres, there being no school uniform (very abnormal for schooling in Australia) etc but they are minor quibbles!
I would commend Marney for not using a single one of the YA tropes I hate. No sudden release of a breathe she didn’t know she was holding, Watts’ family cares about what she’s doing and who she spends time with and calls her out on a number of occasions!
Overall, I would highly recommend this book. Buy it, read it, love it!