Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy [Kindle Edition]

V. J. Chambers (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The story was just so intriguing and I HAD to know what it was all about. I wasn't disappointed either, the subtle hints dropped didn't mislead, but they certainly didn't give the game away." --The e-Fiction Book Club

"What begins as a sweet but compelling YA romance morphs, midway through, into something dark but even more romantic." --Vicki Keire, author of Gifts of the Blood

Product Description

Azazel is seventeen and sexually frustrated. Her biggest issue is trying to figure out why her seemingly normal boyfriend won't sleep with her.

Then Jason races into her life. He won't say where he came from or who's chasing him. He's a delicious puzzle, a boy who has no problem using his fists to solve arguments or quoting Plato to justify his actions. Azazel is drawn to him. She's obsessed with finding out his secrets.

What she doesn't know is that Jason's secrets are entwined with her own town's secrets. Her friends and family have conspired to use her as a pawn in a violent scheme. Soon, she will have to choose between protecting Jason and staying loyal to everyone she's ever trusted.

A story about forbidden love, fate, and free will, Breathless is Rosemary's Baby meets The Da Vinci Code meets Romeo and Juliet.

This title is also available from Amazon, along with the other two books in the trilogy, in The Jason and Azazel Trilogy Omnibus.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 327 KB
• Print Length: 392 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0984120610
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002G99RSO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #817 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #12 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Children's Fiction > Literature > Love & Romance

More About the Author

V. J. Chambers decided to chuck the mainstream sometime in the spring of 2009. Since then, she's been publishing her books herself.

Since she's an indie author, she makes a living teaching high school. She is also fond of snakes, cheesecake, her boyfriend Aaron, Stephen King books, Buffy, and corduroy pants (although not exactly in that order).

She lives in Shepherdstown, WV.

Customer Reviews

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136 of 150 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS SERIES WASN'T FOR ME!, July 20, 2011

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READING, EATING & DREAMING - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy (Kindle Edition)

BELOW IS MY REVIEW FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES!

***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS, BUT IT ALSO GIVES LIGHT TO THE TRUE SUBJECT OF THIS TRILOGY...I WISH I WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT THIS TRILOGY WAS REALLY ABOUT BEFORE I STARTED IT...SO CONTINUE PAST THIS POINT WITH CAUTION!!****

A crazy town full of Satanists who want to rape and kill innocent people, the "Messiah" who happens to be killing machine and satanic "hippies" who conceive the child of the Devil...this trilogy wasn't for me!!

Breathless, Trembling & Tortured by V.J. Chambers missed the mark in my book. Breathless, the first in the trilogy, is the best of the three books (and that's not saying much). By the beginning of the second book in the series, Trembling, I desperately wanted to turn off my Kindle and be done with it, but I stuck it out until the end (partly because I am sort of OCD and I HATE to leave things unfinished). I wish I could say that after concluding this series everything came together and I saw the light, but that wasn't that case. Frankly, I didn't like what I read.

The biggest disappointment, in my opinion, was how misleading I found the book descriptions. I understand you don't want to give too much away, but based on these descriptions I expected: a love triangle, a mysterious bad boy, romance and suspense. Don't get me wrong, this trilogy contains almost all of that, but it is more strongly based on Satanism, a secret society who have, literally, created the "Messiah" and parents who try to force their daughter (the reincarnation of the devil, of course) to participate in a satanic ritual. During this ritual, she is expected to be raped and to commit murder. Oh, those parents I mentioned ...yeah, those same parents are foster parents who have taken in numerous children over the years. What a horrible message!

I gave the Jason & Azazel trilogy 1 STAR. I think some people might get a kick out of this story; I was not one of them. If after reading my review you are still interested in this trilogy then I highly recommend you read it, but if my review created any doubt for you then I wouldn't think twice about reading this series.

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READING, EATING & DREAMING

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Different, October 11, 2011

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This review is from: Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy (Kindle Edition)

I will say overall this book was a great read. Just not for me. It was not at all what I thought it would be. The book is about a secret society and a crazy town thats into satanism! They really don't even go together. I really enjoyed Jason and Azazel connection... it is interesting. The good parts were when they are on the run together. I not sure if I am going to read the next book? I read this because I loved the Da Vinci Code and I wanted something different but this book is nothing like that.

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy. This. Book. Seriously., September 20, 2010

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Vicki Keire - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy (Kindle Edition)

Holy #$%^! Where has this book been in my indie author wanderings? V.J. Chambers pushes YA to the absolute edge. The sweet, delicious edge. This is one of those books that crosses over- paranormal, urban fantasy, thriller, YA, adult, romance, horror, apocalypse, conspiracy, adventure, and more. Wow. I don't even know how to categorize this. Other than brilliant. It's definitely that. Brilliant. Tell your friends. Tell total strangers. This book rocks.


What begins as a sweet but compelling YA romance morphs, midway through, into something dark but even more romantic and, at the same time, sickly humorous. I cannot count the times I found myself laughing out loud then looking over my shoulder a little nervously because Chambers manages to make the inappropriate and the forbidden approachable and even funny. If it shouldn't and can't be happening, it will and does. This is not a book for the faint of heart. Chambers tackles teenage sexuality in plain language. Characters make disturbing, sometimes even illegal, life choices, but Chambers follows through by showing the consequences of their actions. High school is well-rendered in all its insular pettiness. However, she also lets moments of greatness we can all relate to poke through and shine, like the one teacher who encourages free-thinking or the maddening, magical moment when you realize you would throw it all away because of one single electric kiss.


Azazel and Jason both make compelling leads. Both are strong, intriguing, and have great chemistry. Jason is spot-on as the strong, mysterious, but oddly vulnerable boy who defends Azazel from bullies and even mild insults with militaristic fervor. His intelligence and logical arguments are refreshing in a YA romance. Azazel is bewitching as the center of her offbeat hurricane of a family. A little hitch here for me: Jason's longing for normality is understandable, but Azazel? Hmm. Beyond that, though, they are brilliantly polymoral characters. They aren't meant to be entirely likeable. They are... complex, and therein lies their charm. Azazel and Jason do not move in a good v. evil, black v. white world, although everyone around them behaves as if they do. They are continuously forced to make black and white choices in a shades of gray world.


Chambers hits some pretty deep themes hard and heavy almost from page one: the nature of good and evil, and how young people can best construct their own moral identities in a world that constantly lies, fails, and uses them. Jason and Azazel are both blessed and cursed in this regard. They are at the center of relentless, pervasive violence and betrayal, but Chambers gives them the gift of each other: their deepening love becomes an unwavering moral compass that guides them through the madness of their worlds turned upside down and shaken sideways. This drives them closer together, but it also forces them into choices that mark and scar them. Chambers leaves us with the hope that together, there is not only healing, but destiny as well. However, she leaves us hanging as to whether that destiny will be a happy one, or a further descent into chaos and destruction.


Thank goodness for book two. And no waiting, either.