Breathe My Name

You know you're having a bad day when your mom wants to kill you.

It makes for an even WORSE day when she has already killed your three little sisters...and you're just waiting your turn...FOR TEN YEARS!!

Breathe My Name by R.A. Nelson plops you right down in the middle of the turmoil Frances Robinson is facing. Ten years later she has a new family, a family that is very supportive and full of functional love.
But when her real mom gets out of jail after being "rehabilitated", she sends Frances a note implying they have unfinished business...as in I still might want to kill you. Naturally, Frances has some questions surrounding her previous life and she is caught up in this idea of unfinished business.

Frances, as you can imagine, can get a little frazzled. She makes some choices that are questionable, like sexually experimenting with a new boy, Nix, in her class; given the situation, I think that it is classified as appropriate. She and Nix end up taking off on a road trip that leads Frances to her mother. The things she finds out along the way help to put things in perspective, but this book is intense. I-N-T-E-N-S-E.