Thank you so much to NetGalley and to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book. I’ll be honest you that I was unsure if I was going to like this book but I ended up loving this book! I definitely would read more by Kara!

Unfortunately, I have not been able to read and review this book.

After losing and replacing my broken Kindle and getting a new phone I was unable to download the title again for review as it was no longer available on Netgalley.

I’m really sorry about this and hope that it won’t affect you allowing me to read and review your titles in the future.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.
Natalie.

My favorite part was how the book was set up. It went back and forth in time, and you are constantly trying to guess what is going to happen. The book seemed truly realistic, and I would recommend it to anyone in high school and above.

Until I break is about two boys, Ace, who is the football star of the school and Sam, who's best at basketball and is also the brains of the school.
Sam and Ace live next door to each other and have had many "run ins" over the years.
They have a mutual female friend whom Sam has been in love with since grade school and finally in high school she starts showing interest. However, Ace will do everything he can to make sure to ruin Sam's chances.
This book is about bullying and the lengths some kids will go to make it stop.

Until I Break is a powerful YA novel. The protagonist Sam is an eminently likable high school senior, good student, great athlete, all-around nice guy. But he has been plagued pretty much his whole life by Ace, who has bullied and near-tortured Sam for years. Sam's father is dead, his mother is sunk in depression, and his grandfather just keeps telling him to suck it up and show strength. Sam's gradual descent into depression and ideas of retribution is skillfully portrayed, so that the inevitable breaking point still leaves the reader sympathetic towards the shooter. Very well done. Not a happy book, but I think this is an important read as a means of understanding, to at least some degree, the effect of bullying, the need for everyone to have people they can truly talk to about anything and everything, the horrific effect of gender stereotyping (men mustn't have feelings, or if they do, they mustn't express them), and also the glimmer of hope for anyone, even those who feel most alone and forgotten.

Highly engaging book that grabbed me from the first scene. Highly recommended.