4 stars! ****
Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds
Title: Fighting to Breathe (Shooting Stars, #1)
It's been a while since I read Until Lilly and barely remember the main storyline, let alone some Austin guy. Luckily for me I didn't have to remember.
Fighting to Breathe is a bit different from other Aurora Rose Reynolds books. This one was more about rediscovering your feeling, the truth hidden inside. It was about the fragility of life. About the weight of our choices. It was about second chances.
Lea's father was a fisherman who died at the sea. So the thought of being with someone who also wants to be a fisherman sends her running. She left the town, the memories and Austin behind. All their plans about getting married and having kids she buried deep inside of her.
Fifteen years later she returns to the place she run away from to take care of her dying mother. Running into the blue-eyed bearded Austin is inevitable.
Although their firt run-ins are less than pleasant, they become friends.. sort of. But even that doesn't last long. The buried feelings unburied themselves and attacked them in full force.
Fighting to Breathe is a beautifully sad story about mistakes and redemption. Like many other books by Aurora Rose Reynolds I enjoyed reading it. The emotions pictured in the book felt so real - one can simply not cry with Lea or laugh with Ben and Austin.
The ending was satisfactory, not rushed, not cheesy and it filled the void that was created in my chest while reading.
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