When I was trying to go to sleep all I could think about what the most recent bomb that had been dropped before I went to bed! (oh yes. And then it felt like some one was sitting on my chest! From the very beginning CL Matthews rips your heart out.and keeps on doing it through entire book. The name was totally fitting because I was having to remind myself to breath while reading it. CL Matthews killed it! She killed me with this book! And the last 10% of this book was THE MOST INTENSE HOUR OF MY LIFE!!!!! I DIED ALL THE DEADS!!! This book was EVERYTHING!!! It is going straight to my TOP READS OF 2019 list! I don't even know HOW to move on! It was everything I thought it would be and MORE! Book hangover from HELL right now! (Glad I'm all caught up on ARCs) 5 stars is no where near enough. (a day later- I think I am ready to review this soul devastating piece of fucking awesomeness!!! )
The flip-flopping between past and present and the insertion of viewpoints from outside of the main characters grew to be distracting, but Breathe was still an overall four-starred read.***I am not emotionally ready to review this book yet.*** Inasmuch as Joey is a young woman with a backbone of steel, she is also a female main character with a great deal of vulnerability, making her more fragile than you would think. There’s no denying that when he loves, there’s an obsessiveness and possessiveness to his behavior, which at times can be rather stifling. Does it excuse his bad behavior here? Nope, but it does offer up greater perspective on why he is the way he is.
I know a lot of people didn’t like Toby a whole lot in the first book, but I had more respect for him than I did his brother, Jase (who still didn’t win me over with his appearance in this second book). But that was only the beginning of Toby and Joey’s story-and it isn’t quite a love story, not when the hate overpowers the love, and lust could be the sole thing that’s keeping them together. When he meets nineteen-year-old Josephine Moore, it was supposed to be nothing more than a drunken sexual encounter they were both going to walk away from. Thirty-six-year-old Tobias Hayes lost his best friend, the woman he loved, and his brother all in one fell swoop, and his life has been out of control ever since. More fair warning: there’s cheating in book two as well. I’m not going to say how or why because I don’t want to spoil the series starter for readers who intend to read it. Fair warning, though: there is cheating in book one, and one of the main characters in book two played their part in the cheating. Matthews’s Hollow Ridge series, and while this story features a different couple from the one in the series starter, Inhale, Exhale, I’m going to recommend that you read the first book before diving into this one because there’s a particular story line that continues here in this new book.
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