Jennifer's Reviews > The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water

Kendra Brennan inherits her grandfather's old cabin on Hidden Lake and moves in with the intention to fix her life. She plans to confront Tyler, the man who inspired the antagonist in her first book, and write her second novel. Along the way, she realizes that her memory and reality were not always truth, and she's faced with the choice to forgive and receive forgiveness.
From page one, I was confused. I didn't understand who Kendra was talking to or what was happening. It took a few pages to get into the groove that she was speaking to her childhood best friend Cami.
Some characters like Jackie and Beth were poorly developed, too, and remained villains.
Overall, this book was okay for me. I definitely wanted to read to the end but didn't stay up late to read. And I never connected fully with any of the characters. While I could see myself in some of them and experienced empathy at times, they all were privileged, flawed and just out of my grasp of caring what happened to them.
Trigger warnings: suicide, abandonment, rape, abuse, alcohol and drug abuse