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Scary, disturbing and intense...a thoroughbred among haunted house tales...McNish knows how to keep the reader dangling, ensuring you'll be hard-pressed to put this down once you've started. An excellent, if unsettling experience, not recommended for sensitive types. (Jayne Nelson SFX )
'An intense supernatural novel that haunts the reader. Jack is able to sense the dead and after moving into a new house, a dangerous spirit is eager to contact him. Breathe is not for the faint-hearted.' (FUNDAY TIMES ONLINE )
'A genuinely spooky ghost story that leaves you breathless' (FIRST NEWS )
'A terrifyingly well written and disturbing story... Despite all the horror the ending is a moving testament to the transforming power of love.' (UNDERCOVER )
'If you're after a seriously spooky story, this is one for you... a truly terrifying tale. Not for the faint-hearted!' (Helen Boyle TBK )
'Jack's susceptibility to frightening asthma attacks matches the consumptive sufferings of a long dead girl who appears to him.... Readers aged 10 and above will be gripped and spooked.' (Linda Newbery TES )
'a brilliant ghost story which kept me hooked until the end. The descriptions are wonderfully vivid, with the nightmare passage being particuarly haunting, and any 8-12 year olds feeling brave enough to try this are in for a treat.' (Clare Harrison DUNMOW OBSERVER )
'an atmospheric, chilling tale guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck.' (Nikki Gamble THE BOOKSELLER )
'Such is McNish's skill that when you read of the young hero Jack's asthma attackes, you'll find your own breathing feels constricted. He evokes the same empathy when dealing with the ghosts who haunt Jack, taking us into the realms of inventiveness that are his trademark. Breathtaking." (Philip Ardagh GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS SUPPLEMENT )
'An astoundingly creative story with some truly scary moments... Add to this the remarkable way in which McNish develops the theme of breathing, including an acutely well drawn representation of Jack's chronic asthma, and you find yourself with a multi-layered story that will genuinely unnverve the reader, in a way so many ghost stories fail to do.' (Huw Thomas BOOKS FOR KEEPS )
'gripping in its claustrophobic intensity... An irresistable page-turner which allows you to feel what it's like to be asthmatic and, oddly, leaves the reader pitying the dreadful Ghost Mother. You will never see mouth-to-mouth resuscitation again without wondering:are they blowing in or sucking out?' (Tina Massey CAROUSEL )
'You shouldn't really read this before you go to sleep, as there are some really scary moments. It's well-written and easy to read.' (Felix Taylor (age 14) INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'Morbid, necrophiliac and often distinctly queasy, this could be just the thing for adolescents in search of something engagingly horrible.' (Nicholas Tucker THE INDEPENDENT )
'An unusual ghost story where nothing is as simple as it seems until the very last explosive climax. A brilliant winter warmer.' (INSIGHT (Derbyshire) )
'The Nightmare Passage is a vivid and unusual version of hell.... a book for 11 to 13-year-olds who like and exciting and gripping read.' (Rachel Ayers Nelson THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN )
'An intense supernatural novel that haunts the reader. Jack is able to sense the dead and after moving into a new house, a dangerous spirit is eager to contact him. Breathe is not for the faint-hearted.' (FUNDAY TIMES ONLINE )
'A genuinely spooky ghost story that leaves you breathless' (FIRST NEWS )
'A terrifyingly well written and disturbing story... Despite all the horror the ending is a moving testament to the transforming power of love.' (UNDERCOVER )
'If you're after a seriously spooky story, this is one for you... a truly terrifying tale. Not for the faint-hearted!' (Helen Boyle TBK )
'Jack's susceptibility to frightening asthma attacks matches the consumptive sufferings of a long dead girl who appears to him.... Readers aged 10 and above will be gripped and spooked.' (Linda Newbery TES )
'a brilliant ghost story which kept me hooked until the end. The descriptions are wonderfully vivid, with the nightmare passage being particuarly haunting, and any 8-12 year olds feeling brave enough to try this are in for a treat.' (Clare Harrison DUNMOW OBSERVER )
'an atmospheric, chilling tale guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck.' (Nikki Gamble THE BOOKSELLER )
'Such is McNish's skill that when you read of the young hero Jack's asthma attackes, you'll find your own breathing feels constricted. He evokes the same empathy when dealing with the ghosts who haunt Jack, taking us into the realms of inventiveness that are his trademark. Breathtaking." (Philip Ardagh GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS SUPPLEMENT )
'An astoundingly creative story with some truly scary moments... Add to this the remarkable way in which McNish develops the theme of breathing, including an acutely well drawn representation of Jack's chronic asthma, and you find yourself with a multi-layered story that will genuinely unnverve the reader, in a way so many ghost stories fail to do.' (Huw Thomas BOOKS FOR KEEPS )
'gripping in its claustrophobic intensity... An irresistable page-turner which allows you to feel what it's like to be asthmatic and, oddly, leaves the reader pitying the dreadful Ghost Mother. You will never see mouth-to-mouth resuscitation again without wondering:are they blowing in or sucking out?' (Tina Massey CAROUSEL )
'You shouldn't really read this before you go to sleep, as there are some really scary moments. It's well-written and easy to read.' (Felix Taylor (age 14) INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'Morbid, necrophiliac and often distinctly queasy, this could be just the thing for adolescents in search of something engagingly horrible.' (Nicholas Tucker THE INDEPENDENT )
'An unusual ghost story where nothing is as simple as it seems until the very last explosive climax. A brilliant winter warmer.' (INSIGHT (Derbyshire) )
'The Nightmare Passage is a vivid and unusual version of hell.... a book for 11 to 13-year-olds who like and exciting and gripping read.' (Rachel Ayers Nelson THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN )
Helen Boyle, TBK
'If you're after a seriously spooky story, this is one for you... a truly terrifying tale. Not for the feint-hearted!'
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very chilling and deeply affecting,
By paul creston (Rye, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breathe: A Ghost Story (Paperback)
There aren't many really great ghost stories that are genuinely scary enough to keep both adults and young people interested but this is certainly one. The lurking atmosphere builds in intensity towards the climax so effectively that I really feared for Jack. There's also a wonderful creation in this book - the Nightmare Passage. I've never read anything quite like it. An almost perfect story - but it IS scary, and it's not just childish thrills either.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Ok Breathe! Deep Breaths! Breathe! This is one spooky book!,
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This review is from: Breathe: A Ghost Story Hardback (Hardcover)
I have always liked Cliff McNish's books for the pure imagination he puts into all his books. The Doomspell which was his first book was an exciting, interesting and extremely enjoyable read which was mirrored in the other two books in the Doomspell trilogy. I can honestly say I have never read a book with such pure imaginary genius such as his writing.
The Silver Sequence followed which again was another trilogy and I believe an even more exciting and interesting series. Now Breathe has arrived, not part of a trilogy and Cliff's first ghost novel. If you take a stroll through you the children's section of your local bookshop you'll hardly be able to find a real ghost novel. So it is with great brilliance that an author has finally written one but that they have written one with such spookyness and can fulfill the title of a true ghost story. Unlike other books, Breathe isn't filled with blood, gore and evil monsters but with a believable spooky touch that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Suitable for adults, teenagers and young children this book will provide anyone with a true ghost novel. Buy it now!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Scary and evocative but slightly disappointing,
By Nell Jacobs (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breathe: A Ghost Story (Paperback)
A well-written and suspenseful ghost story, Breathe is the story of Jack, an adolescent who moves into an old farmhouse with his mother following the death of his father. Jack has a gift: he picks up impressions of a house's former, dead inhabitants through the furnishings and physical environment that they previously occupied. He also has a curse: severe asthma.
It proves grimly ironic that Jack's mum, in trying to find a home where she and Jack can make a new start following their bereavement, has lighted upon an establishment tenanted by five ghosts - four children and, the object of their terror, the Ghost Mother. Elated at finding the house tenanted by a real, living child, she is determined to make Jack accept her as his mother, by whatever means of persuasion, trickery or coercion she can muster. Meanwhile, one of the ghost children manages to warn Jack of the Ghost Mother's true nature, while they themselves are horribly forced to sustain her earthly presence until they are claimed, one by one, by the terrifying Nightmare Passage. Though this was generally an engaging and evocative tale, the concluding scene, when Jack attempts the challenge of using his gift to liberate those who have gone to the Nightmare Passage, seemed disappointingly rushed and left me with the distinct impression that the author had suddenly arrived at a premature deadline. But overall, this is a compelling and imaginative work and the passages detailing Jack's asthma attacks come across as well-researched and almost as alarming as the book's more supernatural terrors.
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