My Final Breath is the second book I have ready by Paige Dearth. I appreciate she writes about real life horrors. I looked up her back ground and she had some herself. This book is so heart breaking, sad and beautiful at the same time. I found myself thinking of the movies The Lovely Bones and What Dreams May Come with the whole afterlife plot. They way Molly talks about her mother at the beginning of the book is beautiful and makes you envy wanting to have that closeness. The way her dad talks about loving his girls is beautiful and refreshing. I was surprised how other characters graphic stories fit into this one, and felt it was a bit much for such an already heavy book. Molly is 12 and that's a lot for her to deal with in addition to her own. Some of these micro themes enhanced the book, others seemed like to excess useless addition. I also thought she spoke very mature for her age at times. Too mature beyond her years. I felt the characters were well developed and I understood them for the most part.

Many parts of this book made me want to scream and I had to put the book down to talk about what just happened. So many shockers. What was not a shocker is who killed her. That is talked about on page 1 of the book. Story is more about how and why, not who. Very "entertaining" still. Book seemed to drag on with the same questions and emotions that I found myself skipping over paragraphs to get through the redundancy. Overall, I thought this was a great book and worth reading. Very eye opening of something we should keep an eye out for.