A review by cinnabunsun
Breathless by Jessica Warman

3.0

First of all, I didn't really like how each "section" had a space in between them. And, those sections should have been a little bit longer. I found it kind of annoying, but eh, who cares. The story was going pretty good, until Will dropped the cat off the roof. Kind of a turn off for me, kind of disgusted. I loved the plot, great ideas. But, I feel as though something was missing. Not enough detail, and missed some major marks that just left the characters in the story to be bland, and normal. I also think she missed the mark of "normal high school kids." Not all of us go out and party, drink, and smoke. Katie was pretty dumb for a smart kid. I think she didn't get the fact that she can't swim if her lungs are full of smoke. It's just pretty pointless. Overall, Jessica Warman had some pretty good ideas, but just left them as that. I read [b:Between|10397655|Between|Jessica Warman|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1312049408s/10397655.jpg|15195711], and the writing was so much better that I found myself comparing the two. I know I shouldn't do that, but I couldn't help it. I'm giving it 3 stars because, even though it covered a whole new topic, it was just too typical. A teenager goes and gets drunk every night and then wonders why she's always tired, goes to parties every night instead of worrying about her grades in school or swimming, and then makes up a lie about her brother so no one would know the truth. Although she could have said, "My brother... I don't want to talk about him... He's, uh.. Dead to me." And even though the front cover says some secrets are best kept beneath the surface it wasn't even that big of a secret... She could have just said that she didn't like her brother, so she basically disowned him. Who cares if a family member is crazy? It doesn't mean the whole family is.