#Diverseathon2021: October’s Host and Prompt

How is October 1st tomorrow???  This year is the complete opposite of last year which lasted about 10 years… Now, it is time to talk about Ocotber’s prompt and host for #Diverseathon2021:

For October the prompt is: A main character who lives/lived with abuse.

October’s Host is Yami @ A Bookworm’s Thoughts
She will host at Facebook and Instagram.

**She will also be having a giveaway: See her Facebook and Instagram pages for information on the giveaway.

For full details on this year long read-a-thon, please click here.
And don’t forget about the awesome GRAND PRIZE at the end of the year. Click the link here for that information.

What am I reading for October for #Diverseathon2021?

A Breath too Late by Rocky Callen

Book Description:

For fans of Girl in Pieces, All the Bright Places, and Girl, Interrupted comes a haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness.

Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator, swaying between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death.

But there are gaps in her memory, fractured pieces Ellie is desperate to re-assemble. There’s her mother, a songbird who wanted to break free from her oppressive cage. The boy made of brushstrokes and goofy smiles who brought color into a gray world. Her brooding father, with his sad puppy eyes and clenched fists. Told in epistolary-like style, this deeply moving novel sensitively examines the beautiful and terrible moments that make up a life and the possibilities that live in even the darkest of places.

What are YOU reading for #Diverseathon2021 in October?