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Breaking Free SM Koz 9781508426219 Books

Koz tends to deal with real hard issues. How would you respond to finding out that someone you know cuts? Or indulges in any other self-destructive and compulsive behaviour? One of the biggest thing Koz achieves in this book is to give the reader a clue where to start.

The story revolves around Kelsie (aka 'Malibu Kreuger'(!) or 'Mal' for short) and JC, two young people in a small group of teens who are each wrestling with more than they can deal with. Kelsie is dispatched to this wilderness therapy camp by the step-mother from hell.
The characters and reality-grounded story are amazing. The way that Kelsie and the others struggle onwards through a maze of enabling, healing, and destructive relationships is never-let-you-go gripping. Kelsie and JC find one another like islands in a sea of sharks, and love follows - naturally, but not easily. The pace of the story is superb as well, not to mention the deep and nuanced plot. This book is a keeper.

This book made me feel that I could lose a limb, or two, and go on undefeated, still full of hope for the future. Thank you.

There are writers and books which remind me what a five star rating is *really* for. One does give a rating when reviewing, but in this case giving a rating is the least of my responses to this book.


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Breaking Free SM Koz 9781508426219 Books Reviews

Breaking Free is a realistic depiction of struggles that teenagers go through in life. It doesn't matter what walk of life you come from good and bad things happen. It is what you do with your experiences and challenges that mold you into who you grow up to become.

Kelsie feels guilty about an event that happened and she uses cutting to relieve the pain she is feeling. She does not have the support of a good family to help her work through her issues. Her father is never around and her step mother is not of any use either.

Kelsie is enrolled in a Therapy program to help her overcome her cutting habit. She does not want to go to this wilderness therapy program and does her best to try to get thrown out of the program.

The other troubled teens who are sent to this program have a wide variety of issues that they are there to try to overcome or strategies to deal with issues in a more productive way. Kelsie becomes friends with JC. The two of them both have past experiences that make them hold onto guilt that may be justifiable or not. JC is someone that she feels comfortable with, is able to talk to and he is able to help her work through some of the times she is dealing with pain.

You will have to read this book to see how the teenagers bond together or try to tear each other apart. See how their experiences in the wilderness either help them to better deal with their problems or not. See if any of the teenagers develop relationships amongst each other or the adult/s in charge of the group.

I feel that this book could help teens who are dealing with similar issues to see that there are people who are willing to listen and offer help. This book could possibly help someone who is going through similar problems and teach them how to better work through them. This is a very emotional book so have your tissues handy.
This was a really good book. Kelsie Sullivan life wasn't perfect but it wasn't too bad until an accident occurred and her best friend was killed. She's got massive guilt because her best friend Jenna didn't want to go to the beach that night and they had been drinking. Kelsie feels such guilt and her father has been absent for years and she has a horrible stepmother who enjoys torturing her. She has turned to cutting to help with the pain and she is sent to a Wilderness Therapy Program in North Carolina.

Kelsie felt so alone but she had her best friend and her best friend's parents to help her until the accident. After the accident, she blamed herself for Jenna's death because she didn't want to go to the beach that day. Her guilt and loneliness has caused her to find that cutting is the only thing that helps. When she is sent from California to the therapy program in North Carolina, she feels even more lost and alone. But she starts working the program and feeling better. She meets some people there, especially JC and she starts to feel alittle better. They seem to understand each other and are able to help each other.

JC is from Durham North Carolina and his family doesn't have much money at all. His younger brother was killed in a gang shooting. He has such guilt about that and what happened after. He thinks he and Kelsie are so different but they seem to be able to help and understand each other.

Definitely worth reading.
It's been a long time since I've read a book that actually made me feel something. Breaking Free came into my life at just the right moment. Though this book has many dark elements in it, it also has uplifting messages in it. The Breaking Free book definitely fits the name. It is all about a female teenager going through an extremely rough patch in her life and finally being able to break free and start her life. Of course, it is not that simple. She is hauled off to a Wilderness Therapy program, which is a disaster, but she does meet JC, a guy that ends up being someone very important to her. The two of them are very different, but in the end, they are not so different – they both have horrible pasts and feel as if they caused the death of people that were once close to them.

Towards the end of the book, I feel as if the editing was rushed. Also, there was A LOT packed into the book. There were a lot of twists and turns in Breaking Free and though they were all appropriately placed, I would have loved to seen a sequel to the book. There was a part of the end of this book that I think would have made a great beginning for a second book. And then of course, explain what ended up happening to all the characters.

Overall, I really did enjoy the book and would recommend it. It's a book that makes you think and evaluate your life. There are sensitive subjects in the book, therefore if you are younger, I would steer clear of this. Everyone else needs to read this book though!!

*I was sent the item in exchange for my honest opinion. All the opinions expressed here are my own.*
Koz tends to deal with real hard issues. How would you respond to finding out that someone you know cuts? Or indulges in any other self-destructive and compulsive behaviour? One of the biggest thing Koz achieves in this book is to give the reader a clue where to start.

The story revolves around Kelsie (aka 'Malibu Kreuger'(!) or 'Mal' for short) and JC, two young people in a small group of teens who are each wrestling with more than they can deal with. Kelsie is dispatched to this wilderness therapy camp by the step-mother from hell.
The characters and reality-grounded story are amazing. The way that Kelsie and the others struggle onwards through a maze of enabling, healing, and destructive relationships is never-let-you-go gripping. Kelsie and JC find one another like islands in a sea of sharks, and love follows - naturally, but not easily. The pace of the story is superb as well, not to mention the deep and nuanced plot. This book is a keeper.

This book made me feel that I could lose a limb, or two, and go on undefeated, still full of hope for the future. Thank you.

There are writers and books which remind me what a five star rating is *really* for. One does give a rating when reviewing, but in this case giving a rating is the least of my responses to this book.