Review: Highly Recommended
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
Excellent story.  Third in an entirely excellent series.  The author is an amazing storyteller, has a wonderful, whimsical grasp of characterization,  and a seemingly innate sense of human psychology - both for the good and the bad.  He is also delightfully funny with a sense of humor that can make you giggle like a child in public places.It is a rather long story.  At  just over four hundred pages its long read but well worth the time.  For myself a long story is very much desired, especially when i truely enjoy the characters.  As a fast  reader i find most books over far too soon.  The longer a book is the longer i can spend with them.My only true very mild disappontment with this story came in the missing four years of Tyson's angsty period.  A bit more of the emotional angst there might have added another layer to the story.  However, again at already over four hundred pages another hundred or so might have been excessive.The author also provided a delightful cross over to what had been an entirely different story, Tell Me It's Real.  An equally hilarious bit of wonderful story telling i always thought had some similarities.  I, and most other of Tj's fans I'm sure, can only hope this crossover is a lead up to making Tell Me It's Real the first in its own series.  Especially as there is more than one crossover character with unresolved story lines.The ending is abrupt and leaves one in hopes there will be a further addition to the BOATK series (a possibility hinted at in the Authors Knot which I encourage you to read).The Art of Breathing is not erotica.  Its not written to titillate.  Its a wonderful story with amazing characters who will make you cry tears of both hilarity and of sorrow.  There is romance, of course.  But its largely the story of several unique people who make you laugh and cry and wish you could be part of their 'family'.This story and the previous two books as well as Tell Me Its Real are all well worth the money you will spend and I recommend them all.