Book Blog #7

Breathe: A Ghost Story

By

Cliff McNish

This book is for people that like scary stories but don’t like to be to scared. It many have it’s chills and thrills, but its not a book that will scare you and not make you want to sleep for a week. Breathe has a lot to do with ghost and about the past of some of the ghost. It explains why they are still there and how just because they are ghost doesn’t mean they aren’t scared of things to. I think it is a very interesting book, it kept me interested and it was a change of book for me. I don’t typically read ghost books or books dealing with paranormal activity. I would recommend this book to people that have never found a ghost book that they actually like and will read through all the way. Or people that like semi-scary stories or just people that have time to read a pretty good book. I liked that I could see what was going on in this book, it described everything fairly well and I kind of connected with the main character Jack because my sister and I’ve pretty much grown up seeing Kimmy have bad asthma. The little boy in the story has asthma pretty bad and has had 3 horrible acts. So I know and have seen the experiences of people with asthma pretty bad, so I connected there with he’s problem. But the boy, Jack, can also read memories from objects and I thought that was a pretty cool twist to the story. So I really liked that. I think the book would have been better if it was longer or was told through the “Ghost Mother’s” eyes instead of just Jack’s and the ghost children’s.

What was unique about the setting of the book was that it was in an old farmhouse. So you could only imagine the things that could have happened in that house before Jack and he’s mom moved in there. It really makes it interesting because there are so many rooms in the house and so many things happened. Since the setting was in a old farmhouse, it made me thing of dark and mystery things. Like I imagined the house being old, creaky, and semi falling apart. I don’t really find the characters believable because I don’t believe in the supernatural. I believe in God and there are no such things as ghost. But it is still interesting to read about it and see what people can come up with. Even though I don’t believe doesn’t mean that other people don’, so other people might like this book even more because it is about something that they believe in and want to read more stories about. I don’t really relate to any of the characters, but Kimmy and my sister Rachel, like I said both have asthma pretty bad. So I know the kid has it hard. But I figured he’s asthma would get set of worst because usually old farmhouses are filled with dirt and dust. So I was surprised when he didn’t have another attack, but then again it’s a story so that’s pretty much voided out if the author doesn’t put it in there. Over all this was a pretty interesting book.

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