Michelle’s Reviews > Breathe > Status Update

So far, the three main characters meet Maude, who ends up first trying to kill Alina. After a long talk Maude gets to join them temporarily. Later on, Bea, Alina, and Maude get trapped underground in a train station which Maude calls the "Death Station." When the Switch happened, Maude was a student nurse. In the Death Station, she and other nurses ended up taking the lives of people who could not afford oxygen.

So far, all of the three main characters are outside from the community which holds all of the man-made oxygen. (They use oxygen tanks to breathe) It's all barren, abandoned, buildings and houses are destroyed. Normal everyday objects are strewn everywhere. Often there will be some people out there, but most are dead.

A girl called Alina (there are three main characters in the book) has to run away from the Ministry because she is in trouble for something that happened. So, Alina and this guy named Abel stole some tree clippings to plant some trees, 2 days later Abel is found dead trying to cut the tubing which has all of the oxygen in it. So, the other two main characters, Bea and Quinn, decide to help her escape to the city.