Book Review | Watch Me Breathe – C.E. Johnson

Watch Me Breathe
By: C.E. Johnson

Series: Elements Of The Heart
Book Number In Series: 3 of 4
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Trope: Single Parent, Widow, Learning To Live Again, Angst
Publisher: Indie
Publication Date: July 9th, 2021
My Rating: 5 Stars

Synopsis:

She’s a widow. And I’m not what I would consider a good role model for her young child.

It’s been a long road for me. I’ve been plagued with bad decisions and grief. You could say life sucker punched the wind right out of me.

Just like it did to the woman in the car that spun into the ditch right before my eyes. I helped calm her down until the ambulance came, and assumed I’d never see her again.

Judging by her wide eyes and the soda that poured into my lap when Montana Hutchinson delivered the drinks to my table at the town diner, I would guess she believed the same thing.

I thought we could be friends. After all, we have more in common than even she realizes.

But it seems Tana happens to be a magnet for trouble.
And I happen to be the kind of guy that can’t sit back and watch the danger unfold around her.

I’ll do anything to protect her and her daughter.

But every day I spend with her gets harder to push down the feelings growing inside of me.

Being with Tana not only proves I’m capable of love again.

I can breathe again.

Happiness isn’t something that everyone gets the privilege to have.

And there’s no way I’m about to let anyone take it away from me again.

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My Review

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Watch Me Breathe by C.E. Johnson has been on my watch list for some time now. After reading the blurb I knew I needed this book in my hands as soon as possible. C.E. Johnson is a new-to-me author, but after reading Watch Me Breathe, I honestly see myself going through this author’s previous published books and giving them all a read! What can I say, I was a fan of Lucas and Tana from the start!!! Their story was flawless and beautiful with so much heart! I couldn’t put it down!

Tana is a single mother just trying to do her best with raising her daughter. After losing her husband to a car accident, Tana’s world was ripped out from underneath her and she was left free falling in the dark. The day she pulled herself from the dark was the day she ran off the road and crashed her car into a ditch. And that is where fate intervenes and brings the two together.

Lucas *Whack* has been through his own harsh levels of hardships and devastation. Lucas’ backstory broke my heart and shattered my soul. Lucas has a sweet soul and a kind heart, but that kindness is often shadowed with his own personal demons. Two shattered souls find their way to each other on one fateful day, and the rest was written in the stars.

One of my favorite trope’s in romance is what I’ve deemed the learning to live again trope. This is when one, or both, characters have endured a substantial loss that completely unravels their whole life, or lives. This trope brought so much angst to this novel. I loved the guarded approach that Johnson gave both characters in this story. Both Tana and Lucas have faced significant loss, and both fear getting involved with another and then having catastrophe happen again. I loved the fact that Tana and Lucas both went through similar situations. This made the chemistry and the connection between the two of them even stronger!

I’m not going to dive to deep into the rest of this novel. The key is the element of surprise with this one. If you’re interested in the learning to live again trope mixed with a single parent romance don’t hesitate in picking up Watch Me Breathe by C.E. Johnson! Between the angst and all the feels, there wasn’t a moment while reading when I felt nothing. Every moment carries an emotion. You won’t regret 1-clicking this swoony alpha hero!!

I will definitely be picking up more novels from C.E. Johnson in the very near future. I loved her writing style and her flow! I can see her being a favorite author in the upcoming future! We shall see!

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