Coming Up For Air

Loved this sea-swept coming-of-age story and the themes of swimming, family secrets, and small-town rivalries that run through it. The writing is crisp and Coco's voice is just spot on. Love how she sees the world through the lens of a film-maker. Such a fresh take.

Thanks once again to Netgalley, the Publisher and the Author for allowing me to read an ARC of Coming Up For Air.

I really enjoyed this book and I finished within 24 hours which speaks volumes to how good a book is in my eyes. I thought it had an Outer Banks vibe to it if you’ve ever watched the Netflix show you’ll know what I mean about the people who live in outer banks and the people who just come for the summer to second houses and the rivalry between them all.

Coming Up For Air had this too with the “Fishes” who are born and bred residents of the seaside town of Piscary, “Cuckoos” who bought houses in Piscary and live in it but wasn’t born in Piscary and “Zombies” who just come to enjoy the town for the summer. Coco tried her hardest to bring the town together and stop with the silly names all whilst keeping her big secret that she really wanted to tell so she could be free and honest and finally have a proper family.

One of my favourite parts of the book was Coco’s relationship with her Uncle Henry and how both of them overcame different fears and learnt to open up to people and start again. I thank the author for highlighting Chronic pain and health issues as I suffer from one myself and I think that sometimes people don’t realise how hard it is to do day to day tasks like Uncle Henry struggled with .

Coco is an inspiring Film Maker thanks to her mums previous work in the industry and I really enjoyed that element to the book how it told you about the different scenes and the settings it added another depth to the book which I think readers will enjoy .

This was a quick, easy and uplifting book with a real feel good vibe running through it. It was well writtne with good characterisation and an engaging plot. I really liked it and will definitely be looking for more from this author.

A really lovely feel good book. With great characters and a great story line. It is really easy to read and I enjoyed this book