Book: Breathless by Jessica Warman

Book Info: Published by Walker Books; 333 pages

Source: Purchased for my Nook

Genre: YA/Contemporary

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Goodreads Summary: When Katie Kitrell is shipped off to boarding school by her distant father and overbearing mother, it doesn’t take her long to become part of the It Crowd. She’s smart, she’s cute, and she’s an Olympic-bound swimmer who has a first class ticket to any Ivy League school of her choice. But what her new friends, roommate, and boyfriend don’t know is that Katie is swimming away from her past, and from her schizophrenic older brother, Will, who won’t let her go. And when he does the unthinkable, it’s all Katie can do to keep her head above water.

I don’t know what to think about Breathless.  I thought her relationship with her schizophrenic older brother was interesting, as was her relationship with her parents.  And I really liked the swimming aspect of the book, even if it wasn’t as important as the summary made it seem.  Speaking of the summary, it is a little misleading…I thought swimming and her brother would be the focus of the book, not Katie getting shipped off to boarding school.

It’s really more about her time at boarding school than anything else.  It’s like her brother’s schiophrenia and her swimming were randomly thrown in as a way to move things along.  There were times when the story dragged, but at the same time, huge chunks of time were completely glossed over and things seemed really random.

It gets a 2 out of 5.  There wasn’t anything wrong with it, but there wasn’t anything right about it either.