The Art of Breathing
Re-read in Audio, April 20th
- Narrator Sean CrisdenFirst of all, I want to say the audio makes this book/this series so much better!! So, Yay to Sean Crisden… What a terrific job he did!!!
What a journey this series has been….
I have laughed my ass off, cried ugly tears… These characters feel so real to me.
Bear, Otter and the Kid… Creed, Anna, JJ, mrs Paquin, Dom etc.
This book is about the Kid who isn’t a kid anymore. He’s Tyson. Ty still has issues, major panic attacks where he doesn’t remember how to breath.
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"Life can suck. It can hurt. It has teeth and won’t hesitate to bite you."
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Ty hasn’t come to grip yet with his mother abandoning him and Bear at a young age. And on top of that he realizes he is in love with his best friend Dom (Dominic). But he runs, the only reaction he knows, the only reaction he’s learned.
Ty, Bear and Otter leave Seafare, Oregon. Ty attends to University for four years and then returns home finding that everything has changed.
All the hurt between Dom and Ty resurfaces and he learns that not everything went as Ty thought it did.
“Without you, I was barely breathing. And I’m lost, Dom. I’m so fucking lost, and it’s so hard to breathe and- ”
“All you need to do is breathe. Just breathe for me……”
I loved Dom… He was such a caring man, cared so much for Ty.
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“You’re not lost,” he says. “Not anymore. I’ve found you now, Ty. I’ve got you and I will never let you get lost again.”
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“Took us a while.”
He chuckles. “You could say that.”
“It won’t be easy.”
“Nothing worth having ever is.”
I smile. “That’s pretty damn cheesy.” I reach for him. He lets me pull him down. “Lucky for you it worked.”
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And the epilogue…. That was kind of crazy!!! Bear’s rambling.. again…
I can’t wait to read more.
“You and me, Bear.”
First-read 2014, September 29th - 4 stars
