Raynesh, too, stated that, other than the main premise, the storyline “felt like it had been copied from other books” and Cian said “the style bored me as well as the poorly handled relationships.” The love triangle has been over-done, the innuendo is too overt and it read like another Twilight novel.” Lucas stated clearly the main negative that Book Club found in the novel: However, this was not so much due to Crossman’s incredible powers of characterisation, but because no-one really found any of the characters truly believable. “I enjoyed the concept of the novel due to its importance to our society it’s a real issue in our society today.” (Elliot)Īnd that was the end of the list of positives.įirstly, we could not agree on a favourite character: Old Watson, Bruce, Quinn and Maude were all choices. As Flynn stated, “the novel was gripping and made me consider what might happen in the future.” We were in agreement that its premise was the most original part of the book:

The first positive response was that it was an easy read, and something that everyone could get through quickly despite its flaws, it still kept us engaged. However, the book didn’t fully live up to our expectations. But what if you can’t? And what if you think everything could be different? Three teens will leave everything they know behind in Sarah Crossan’s gripping and original dystopian teen novel of danger, longing, and glimmering hope.īook Club approached ‘Breathe’ with enthusiasm last term after all the hard work of Term 2, we were all looking forward to an addictive bit of dystopian fantasy. If you want to survive, you pay to breathe. Summary (goodreads): The world has no air.

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