Breathe My Name
I need to see you. Please come right away. We have to finish. Frances Robinson is in high school now. She lives a quiet, suburban life, far from her horrifying past. When she was a child, her birthmother smothered her three sisters. Through pure luck, Frances survived. Now her mother has just...
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I need to see you. Please come right away. We have to finish. Frances Robinson is in high school now. She lives a quiet, suburban life, far from her horrifying past. When she was a child, her birthmother smothered her three sisters. Through pure luck, Frances survived. Now her mother has just been released from prison . . . and she wants to see Frances. A new boy at school called Nix charms Frances. Together, Nix and Frances embark on a clandestine journey to visit Frances’ mother: to confront the monster in its lair. This trip will help Frances at last find peace—or die trying. But no matter what, Frances will discover just what it means to finish.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781595140944 (1595140948)
Publish date: November 8th 2007
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages no: 314
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Love,
Travel,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Family,
Thriller,
Horror,
Road Trip
I was really exited to read this book. A girl whose mother killed her sisters and tried to kill her, how can that not be cool/interesting? But this one was just okay. The switching back and forth between past and present works in some books, but not in this one. I never cared that much for our main ...
It was great until the end when it became awful.Much of the current YA fiction seems to be depressing and morbid and while this book certainly fits both those descriptions, it is also well-written and hopeful. I enjoyed the subtlety in which Frances releases herself from her emotional prison; smothe...
Frances has been feeling anxious lately. The sound of an ambulance racing down the street causes her to panic. She has a secret that has been causing her more and more distress. Other than her family, only her quirky best friend Ann Mirette knows. The secret is creating a dark cloud over her see...