In a future where you are forced to pay to breathe and only the Premiums can live a normal life, Bea Quinn and Alina have escaped the Pod and are on their way to Sequoia.

They must salvage the few remaining members of the Resistance and hope that the members of Sequoia will put aside their differences and join them in the fight to bring truth to a world where real and pretend is lost to greed.

But something isn't right with the leader of Sequoia, the way things are run there is nothing like what the three of them are used to and soon they'll realise that who they thought was on their side and who they believed to be their enemies, weren't what they seemed.

After reading Breathe in less than three days I knew I had to read the sequel; it was just as fast-paced and readable as the first. The unique thing about Crossan's writing is that something important is always happening, there are never any meaningless chapters filled with details you don't need to know. The characters are likeable and relatable but not as three dimensional and real as I would have liked. This is because there are four viewpoints in this story, which I loved because the story seemed more open, so the good points of the switching narrative did outweigh the bad.

Again I felt the romance seemed a little lacking emotion or meaning but I suppose in a way that was realistic what with there being a revolution against the officials and everything, nonetheless I think that Bea and Quinn should have thought a little more and felt more about each other since they were in love.

Still, just like Breathe, the detail in how this dystopian world worked was brilliant and unique; the ideas were fresh and the plot line engaging. The ending was bitter sweet but it gave a strong message of how in real life, not everyone gets to see the happy ending.

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