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A review by reagannixon
Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon
4.0
4.5 stars
This was good. It made a long car ride slip away. It’s also the second or third book Ive read involving a coma patients. Even though I know this is fiction, this story (with the others) has changed/challenged my preconceived notions around coma patients and vegetative states.
I also loved that our hero is deeply, deeply flawed and begins her journey from rock bottom. The ending had me 😭😭😭😭😭
The way this book is put together is artful, interesting and cool. The story and narration changes/grows/adapts as the narrators do.
The main narrator is a freelance journalist whose life is a hot mess. She’s lost her full time job, husband, and all her friends due to her drinking. She isn’t holding it together. While on an assignment involving hospitals, she sees Amy, a woman who went missing at 15 and was later found beaten, leaving her in a coma for the past 15-ish years. The story is part investigation into what happened but periodically we also get ants thoughts, which go through their own evolution... the truth is revealed and you’ll guess wrong and then go 😮 at the end.
This was good. It made a long car ride slip away. It’s also the second or third book Ive read involving a coma patients. Even though I know this is fiction, this story (with the others) has changed/challenged my preconceived notions around coma patients and vegetative states.
I also loved that our hero is deeply, deeply flawed and begins her journey from rock bottom. The ending had me 😭😭😭😭😭
The way this book is put together is artful, interesting and cool. The story and narration changes/grows/adapts as the narrators do.
The main narrator is a freelance journalist whose life is a hot mess. She’s lost her full time job, husband, and all her friends due to her drinking. She isn’t holding it together. While on an assignment involving hospitals, she sees Amy, a woman who went missing at 15 and was later found beaten, leaving her in a coma for the past 15-ish years. The story is part investigation into what happened but periodically we also get ants thoughts, which go through their own evolution... the truth is revealed and you’ll guess wrong and then go 😮 at the end.