Ten Tiny Breaths: A Novel Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CJCVVC8 | Format: EPUB
Ten Tiny Breaths: A Novel Description
After a terrible car accident destroys her life as she knew it, 20-year-old Kacey escapes to Florida, where she encounters an irresistible man determined to capture her wounded heart.
Just breathe, Kacey. Ten tiny breaths. Seize them. Feel them. Love them.
Four years ago Kacey Cleary's life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, holding her boyfriend's lifeless hand and listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. Armed with two bus tickets, Kacey and her 15-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. They're struggling to make ends meet at first, but Kacey's not worried. She can handle anything - anything but her mysterious neighbor in apartment 1D.
Trent Emerson has smoldering blue eyes, deep dimples, and perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable and Trent is determined to find a way into Kacey's guarded heart - even if it means revealing an explosive secret that could shatter both of their worlds.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 8 hours and 58 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: May 14, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CJCVVC8
I rambled a bit when writing this one...
When I say whoa! I mean whoa! Heaven help me this book had me all kinds of crazy by the time I got to the 'shattering' moment towards the end of the book. And by then do you know what happened? Hubs rolls over in bed and tells me to turn off my nook and go to bed. Yeah, yeah I understand it was 2am. But sheesh! Someone's life was hanging in the balance here. Doesn't he realize that fictional characters are people, too?
So we have Kacey...poor messed-up-in-the-head-beyond-any-kind-of-help Kacey. I don't even know where to start with her. Girl has so much baggage a pack mule looked at her and said no. But gosh, I hurt for that girl something fierce. Yeah she had a crazy, broken life...but she had a younger sister to look after so she stepped up and became the person her sister needed her to be. Social life be damned. And her witty outbursts are like music to my ears. Girl has a sarcastic tongue and isn't afraid to use it. The things she calls people is hilarious and I couldn't get enough of her character.
Then we have Trent. Oh lordy, the angels had to be singing the day he was made, cause dude is hot. Shhh, do you hear that? Oh that was just the sound of Kacey's heart beating; her returning from the dead so to speak. Trent makes her feel things she hasn't felt since the death of her parents. But Trent's baggage is just as heavy. And the moment his past and hers collide...lives go beyond shattered.
You know what I loved a lot about this book? The secondary characters are just as great as Trent and Kacey. They all play a pivotal role in the story and Tucker did an awesome job with them. I actually cared quite about the secondary characters, more so than I usually do with other books.
This book has a similar theme to it that has been running through a lot of contemporary romance this year. Female heroine is messed up due to some trauma, which she doesn't want to talk about, male hero tries to save her by trying to get her to open up but also has his own hidden issues. I like these books they have been done well with, Easy, On Dublin Street, Sea of Tranquillity, Charade, The Edge of Never, just to name a few. I like reading about people overcoming their issues and falling in love, but this one did not work for me, and it was down to three main points.
1. Kacey for me was a hard character to like. She reminded me of an even more messed up Jocelyn from On Dublin Street. But whereas Jocelyn was `lets just keep to myself', Kacey was `lets let everyone know I am broken'. She was so messed up that her interactions with everyone did not make me like her and sympathise with her but made me just question why anyone would talk to her. I know this was meant to be part of her and hence part of the book, but I just don't think so many people would have just kept giving her chances. They had no reason to build a relationship with her so why try? Sure as the book moves on and Kacey starts to let people in she can be at times funny, but even then she was hard to like.
2. The romance did not work for me. When Trent and Kacey first met, I was "oh no instant love from him" (it was instant lust from her, I can work with that). I kept thinking why with that minimal blasé interaction is he going after her? And then my brain went "oh no, no no no no no". I could only think of one other reason why he would (which I am not going to tell you). I then all I could think is "this is creepy, really really creepy".
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