He was the ideal mix of sensitivity and sexuality that you want to see in a male protagonist (but you never seem to find in real life!).Īs the story unfolds, we learn the Kacey lost her family, her boyfriend, and her best friend in a horrific car crash. He’s sexy, he rides a motorcycle, he’s basically the hero you want to see shirtless on every page of the twelve month calendar. Kacey takes a job as a waitress at a local strip joint while Livie goes to high school.Įnter the bad boy next door, Trent.

They complement each other as much as they contradict one another. Livie is the opposite of Kacey, at 15, she’s warm and outgoing. Kacey is 20, with a hard exterior and a broken heart. They move from Grand Rapids to Miami to start a new life for themselves. Ten Tiny Breaths focuses on the lives of Kacey and Livie Cleary as they recover from their broken past. But, overall, I guess the book did its job, because I was incensed enough to write a review. Let me just tell you how awkward that was to read. Now, I know that’s a lot of pressure to put on a book, and I’m not going to judge the entire genre based on one book, however, if every new adult book focuses on sex so much, I’m probably out.Īlso, the main character and I share a name, “Kacey.” This book is in first person present tense. I’ve kind of avoided the genre since it became a thing because I was worried I’d be disappointed. Ten Tiny Breaths is the very first “new adult” book I’ve read. I really, really wanted to like this book so I’m going to try to be as constructive as possible. Seemingly perfect Trent has an unforgiveable past of his own one that, when discovered, will shatter Kacey’s newly constructed life and send her back into suffocating darkness. Maybe she’s not beyond repair.īut Kacey isn’t the only one who’s broken. She starts to believe that maybe she can leave the past where it belongs and start over. But sexy Trent finds a way into her numb heart, reigniting her ability to love again.

What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.īut when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table.

Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind-all but one. Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident.

Ten tiny breaths book