The Heartbeat Hypothesis
by Lindsey Frydman
Publication Date: March 20, 2017
Genres: Adult, Entangled: Embrace, New Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Book Description:
Audra Madison simply wanted to walk in the shoes of Emily Cavanaugh, a free-spirited teenager who died too young. After all, Audra wasn’t supposed to be here.
Thanks to Emily, Audra has a second chance at life. She’s doing all the things that seemed impossible just two years ago: Go to college. Date. Stargaze in the Rocky Mountains. Maybe get a tattoo. You know, live.
Jake Cavanaugh, a photographer with mysterious, brooding gray eyes, agrees to help chronicle her newfound experiences. She makes him laugh, one of the only people who can these days. As they delve into each other’s pasts – and secrets – the closer they become.
But she’s guarded and feels like she can’t trust anyone, including herself.
And he’s struggling with the fact that his beloved sister’s heart beats inside her.
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“Our hearts have been friends for
a very long time.”
The Heartbeat Hypothesis is the debut book of Lindsey
Frydman and what a debut. As soon as I started reading this book I clicked with
the story and the voice of the author, I then had to go back and check that
this was in fact a debut and that is the biggest compliment. This story just
flowed with ease, I was immediately transported into this NA gem and the author
held me emotionally captive until the very end. Reading this book was
effortless, emotional, captivating and I loved every single second.
“Everything is finite, isn’t it?
“Nothing lasts forever.”
When I have read “transplant” books in the past, more often
than not the focus is always on the recipient and you never really hear much
about the donor or the donor’ family. More often, never the twain shall meet,
but sometimes they do keep in touch and The Heartbeat Hypothesis is not only a
celebration of the life of the recipient but also that of the life of the
donor. This side of the story was emotional for me, a life captured through
pictures and yet I felt like I knew her and that is testament to the author.
“Sometimes grief is the price you
pay for love.”
Audra was the lucky recipient of a heart at the expense of a
young woman called Emily. Audra had reached out to Emily’s family and they had
responded. Because of this she found out that Emily’s brother was at the same
University as her and his name was Jake. Audra had also looked for any
information regarding Emily, she wanted to know more about the heart that was
beating inside her and because of her delving she came across Emily’s Instagram
page. Emily’s Instagram was covered in whacky photo’s or random exploits that
really brought her bubbly personality to life or were they just a front…a mask?
These photos were taken by #MyFavoritePhotographerJake and were named her
done-it list.
“Nothing in life is permanent.
All of it will eventually disappear…Maybe we’re supposed to know that…accept
it, and live our lives differently because of it. Rearrange our priorities
based on the finite number of heartbeats we have left.”
Audra decided that she wanted to recreate Emily’s done-it’s
as a kind of homage to the woman that had a given her life and it is here that
Jake and Audra meet.
“And on bad days, when his aura
of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn’t turn off, I felt like I was doing
everything wrong.”
Jake was a conundrum, one minute he was friendly, next he
was detached, then he was curious, then he distanced himself. It was like
someone was switching a light on and off constantly and you never knew what “Jake”
was going to turn up. I was torn between his grief and him being uncomfortable
knowing that his sisters heart was beating in the woman in front of him to him
just being confused, insecure and hiding something. It was this raw honesty in
Jake as a character that made him all the more intriguing. I was desperate to
know the man underneath and I loved the way that Lindsey Frydman slowly lets us
in.
“I thought I knew what loneliness
was…But you can’t know lonely until you’ve lived the opposite.”
This is a story that will tug at every single heart string,
from budding friendship to best friends, to grief, to guilt, to learning to
move on from the past and embrace a future you never imagined you deserved. A
book that has honest, real and relatable characters even if their lives are
anything but. Lindsey Frydman delivered an exceptional read as a debut, a
little towards the end I felt some plot lines were a little rushed hence the
0.5 deduction, but apart from that, this was a perfect read for me. I loved
everything about it.
About the Author:
Lindsey has been writing since she was nine years old, when she discovered the awesomeness that is Harriet the Spy. Her books always include a romance, though sometimes there’s an added sci-fi or magical realism twist. She lives in Columbus, Ohio (where the weather is never quite right). Her BFA in Photography and Graphic Design has granted her a wide assortment of creative knowledge that serves as inspiration (and not much else). When she’s not crafting YA and NA stories, you’ll likely find her spending waaay too much time on Pinterest, playing a video game, singing show-tunes, or performing in a burlesque show—because she enjoys giving her introversion a worthy adversary. (Plus, it’s the closest to Broadway she’ll ever get.) Lindsey was a proud 2016 Pitch Wars Mentee and thoroughly adores being a part of the wonderful writing community. THE HEARTBEAT HYPOTHESIS is her debut novel.
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