Try Not to Breathe

from lillibrary

16 yr old Ryan meets Nicki the summer after he is discharged from a mental institute. Told in first person, Ryan recounts Nicki's attempts to get him to open up about his suicide attempt as she struggles to understand her father's death.

from Kassilem

This is a book about attempted suicide and the mental rehabilitation afterwards that Ryan goes through once he's been cleared to go home and to his 'normal life'. However, I didn't feel like enough emotion was written about for the messages to really hit home. Ryan was a little 2-dimensional for ...

from Urbanfan

I liked this contemporary YA with a touchy subject. The topic is teen suicide and actually quite encouraging without being artificial. I never felt depressed or sad while reading the book. I was sucked into the main character's story and his fight to feel normal. The supporting characters were tr...

from lms8esmith

Try Not to Breathe sheds light on a subject many teens and adults do not want to discuss...suicide. Hubbard does a wonderful job of creating this world in which Ryan lives. I know that many who read this novel will identify with some of the feelings Ryan and Nikki deal with, and Hubbard lets the ...

from KimberlySlicedOpen

This was my first Jennifer Hubbard read and it was pretty good! It was an extremely well written, moving story, but it did leave me wanting in parts, which is something I frequently say about Realistic Fiction - Psychology/Mental Health books, I'm not sure why, but there always just feels like th...