NetGalley: My Final Breath by Paige Dearth




Title: My Final Breath
Author: Paige Dearth
Published: June 24, 2020
Publisher: Fiction with Meaning LLC
Pages: 295
Genre: Young adult/Child Abuse
Review: NetGalley
Buy Link: Amazon


An unbearable tragedy. A life cut short. A dead girl searching for truth.

Twelve-year-old Molly suddenly wakes up dead in Limbo after spending four years in and out of hospital beds. Fearful of being forgotten by her family, she wants nothing more than to return to Earth, until her guardian exposes the grim truth about her demise.

Devastated, Molly learns everything she believed about her life and death was a lie. But the greatest blow arrives when Molly discovers she isn’t the only one who suffers from unexplained ailments.

Unable to reach the living, Molly can only hope for an intervention to prevent the same terrible consequence from happening again.

My Final Breath is a suspenseful psychological thriller about an intolerable offense ripping a family apart. If you like twisted tales of loyalty, deception, and intentional acts of evil then you will love this gripping story.





I received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.
I really was not expecting this to go the way it did, but honestly, how could I not? This author writes stories that literally break your heart. You can not help but have all sorts of emotions go through your mind as you read. We are introduced to Molly, who dies unexpectedly and can not think that anyone would hurt her. As her story unfolds, we learn that even those that we think love us can be the ones that hurt us the most. This book was different from her others because Molly is a dead girl who is in limbo, yet you will have the same feelings as you do in the others. The only thing that really threw me off was how we went without any cussing to having a few cuss words thrown in. It was something that I was not expecting, so I was a bit surprised. Especially as we go through the book and then out of now where a cuss word. Not saying anything bad was not expecting that. 
There is a quote within a scene that I felt was true. "Like I said, if there is a God, when why make me suffer?" "I think we all suffer in some way. Some people worse than others, but that's just life, I think." 
The ending was not what I was expecting, but I am glad the person who hurt Molly the most suffered. Like it is said, karma comes back, and it is either good or bad. 
 







Paige Dearth was a victim of child abuse. She writes real-life horror and refers to her work as Fiction with Mean-ing. Stories teach lessons, and Paige hopes that awareness through fiction creates prevention.

Paige will continue to write stories about young children who need to overcome adversity and then take you on their life’s journey. Through fiction, her goal is to get readers so invested in the story and characters you will become one with the tome. You will shed tears of joy, grief, rage, and horror. You will be emotionally invested in the outcome. She wants her readers to be thinking about the story long after they have turned the last page.

Some may ask why write about such controversial and difficult subjects. Paige feels that if we look the other way and don’t address society’s fears, no real growth will ever happen. As Ben Franklin said: “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Society should not look the other way because a subject seems too difficult to handle; just remember her books are fiction, but people live through these real-life horrors.

So buckle up and take a Paige Dearth life-changing journey. It may take you into a new world of renewed enlightenment to make a difference and change the life of a child.

Paige lives in Plymouth Meeting, PA, with her husband Mike (who was portrayed as Remo in her debut novel, Believe Like A Child). This novel has been the catalyst for her writing platform. The Beginning of Believe Like A Child is based on Paige’s real-life horror; however, the novel's remainder is fiction. It is the darkest version of who she could have become, had fate not intervened in the nick of time. It presents a fine balance between what lives on in her imagination and the evil lurks in the real world.



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