Review: I Breathe You
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2013
***This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.******This review contains minor spoilers***This is a story about a young woman who loses all of her dreams in a single night. After a car crash takes her voice and her boyfriend, Rhane is left to pick up the pieces of her life. Her only source of emotional support is her uncle, as her parents cut her out of their lives when she dropped out of college to be the lead singer in a rock band.With no other options, Rhane goes to the house her grandmother left her and finding it dilapidated, she has a lot of renovations ahead of her. Enter Ian, the contractor hired to do the job, and the highlite of the book for me.The pacing of this book was spot on for me, if just a bit slow in some places. I really liked that Ian and Rhane's relationship progressed slowly. I think the situations they were both in warranted that.The only thing I think this could have been different was the amount of time Rhane spent thinking about Dalton, her boyfriend who died in the car accident. The only time she really thought about him was when she was comparing him to Ian, and I just think he would've have been on her mind more often.Rhane's character was a bit of emotional wreck, and she stayed that way throughout as she learned to cope. I'm glad the author kept with the consistency and didn't make Rhane have an epiphany and change into a new person. Rhane recognized that she was in an emotional upheaval and proceeded to get help, but she had a long road ahead of her.There was a spot in the book where she cut Ian off, and I think this was so true to character for her. I think her parents cutting her off set the precedent for how she dealt with conflict, and while I don't think it's healthy, again, I think it was consistent with Rhane's character.I wish we would have been able to see some of the book through Ian's point of view, because I think his life was in as much disarray as hers was. Maybe even a bit more, and I think this is part of what prompted Rhane to get her butt in gear and try to make some changes in her life.At the end of this book, I don't feel like it was as much of a happily ever after as it was a 'hopefully' ever after, and I think it was perfect for Rhane and Ian's story.If you enjoy stories where two broken people are trying to find their way together, I highly recommend this book!