This is told in multiple viewpoints.

It was really hard for me to connect with this book, it doesn't take a lot to confuse me to try to put all this together took some doing.

It has some acerbic wit, direct and sometimes annoying.

It distracted me from the story.

As yet I have never DFN'D a book so I hopped, skipped and jumped through it reading what I thought were the 'important' bits.

Not very professional but hey ho, I wanted it to draw me in as I went.

My thanks to Katherine Hayton via Net Galley for my copy. I tried several times thinking it might be me, not the time to read it, wrong frame of mind, that sort of thing, but nope, just didn't work ffor me.

The author of Breathe and Release is described as a shy reticent genius. They may well be right.

I have to admit to not liking this book much when I began it. It is not the easiest read. It is written in a detached terse manner with a certain amount of acerbic wit. But neither could I put it down. It is compelling. Almost addictive. I liken reading it to being a passenger in a car speeding down a winding road in the middle of the night with no headlights.

Scary.

Exhilarating.

There are four main characters: Elisabet, who wakes in hospital following a car accident with absolutely no memory;

Graeme, Elizabet's husband, Kristen's father. The instigator? Or a victim?

Kristen, Graeme's 17 year old daughter, Elisabet's step-daughter;

And Lillian imprisoned in a cell in a basement and about whom Elisabet has recurring dreams.

I have never read anything quite like this book. I am still not sure I can say I enjoyed it. But it was one hell of a ride.

Thank you to author Katherine Hayton via Netgalley for providing a digital copy of Breathe and Release for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.