Rocky Callen

This must have been an extremely difficult book to write, but what a terrific result! I worked in mental health for 27 years and there were nights when I was unable to sleep when I counted the number of people I knew who had killed themselves. It was a scary number. In A Breath Too Late, we follow Ellie from the moment she realizes she's dead, back and forth between her attempted interactions with her parents and the boy she loved both in the past and in the days immediately following her suicide. We experience her extreme despair, regrets, anger and insights until her mother comes to an important, but all too late realization. A book this powerful deserves a place in every single library where teens (and everyone, quite honestly) who are dealing with mental health issues, particularly depression, can read it.… (plus d'informations)

This book is about teen suicide. The fear with this type of books is that...will it trigger someone to take their own life? And why? This book is different from, Girl in Pieces, All he Bright Places and Girl Interrupted in that the perspective is after Ellie has taken her life. The author gives very little insight into the method of her suicide.

Now Seventeen year old Ellie is gone but not entirely. She is stuck. Stuck in memories, stuck in depression, and stuck in the aftermath of a world where she no longer lives and is forced to watch the people around her process their grief. Ellie experiences the debilitating sadness her mother is enduring as well as the pain and sorrow of her childhood best friend and now boyfriend, August.

It is heart wrenching and not pretty. Ellie sees first hand how she has devastated those who love her most and she realizes too late that she cannot undo her suicide and restore her life. Suicide is a FINAL act in what is your life. And the ones you leave behind are left to pick up the pieces.

Author, Rocky Callen writes eloquently and beautifully using language that I felt mesmerizing.

This is a tough read, and will haunt you, but it is a novel that is going to get attention.

The cover is beautiful.… (plus d'informations)