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A sweet novel with a definite readership
A half an inch changed Eagan's life, but a half an inch saved Amelia's.

In a Heartbeat by Loretta Ellsworth tells us the interwoven stories of two girls whose lives change in a matter of microseconds. Told through alternating perspectives and time frames, we learn about the horrible heart condition that has impacted Amelia's life forever and about the passion for ice skating that ultimately takes Eagan's life.

Ellsworth's prose is lovely and fluid, and she offers us unique insights into the lives of two very different characters. Eagan's passion for ice skating is well-delivered, as is her rocky relationship with her mother. Postmortem, we see Eagan interact with her present self in the afterlife and her past life on Earth. The dual perspective helps push the plot forward, and I quite enjoyed the person that Eagan runs into while in the afterlife. I don't think it's ever made explicit who Miki is, but as a reader, I picked up on that quickly and found it a nice touch.

As for Amelia, her story is told entirely from the present perspective. I must admit to never feeling much connected to her, as I found she didn't seem to have many interests or passions in the manner that Eagan did. She'd been sick for a long time, but that didn't seem to me enough to make her a fully realized character. Near the end of the story, Amelia chooses to take a trip from Minneapolis to Milwaukee with a guy she met at the hospital, and for me, this entire sequence didn't make sense to who I thought Amelia was. A little further growth in her would have helped me feel more attached to her.

This is a book for fans of medical stories. You know who you are, and you know exactly who you can sell this title to if you're not a fan yourself. The pacing is well-done, though I did find the time shift a bit jarring the first time it happened in Eagan's story, but once that hurdle is jumped, it moves smoothly. This is one you can hand as easily to a 13-year-old as to a 18-year-old, though some older readers might find some of the situations unrealistic. There are few, if any, language or situational concerns.

One comment I need to make: has anyone else noticed a trend in YA lit to tell the end of the story in the first chapter? I can't seem to place titles this second, but it seems to me more and more stories are throwing out the ending from the beginning and then telling the story backwards. It irritates me as a reader, since it never allows me the chance to figure out what's going to happen. I knew from page 2 how this would progress. This stylistic choice feels like I'm being talked down to, like I might not pick up the thrust of the story if it weren't told to me from the beginning.

On the whole, In a Heartbeat is a good book, and it will have appeal. For me, though, I never quite engaged enough nor did I find myself feeling satisfied at the end.

Tears of joy and sadness.
Two girls: Quiet, obedient, loving Amelia has been ill for years with a bad heart. Fast, sassy, Eagan lives to skate but also rebels against her mother's pressure and wants the most out of life. When Eagan dies in a freak skating accident, Amelia gets her heart. Suddenly Amelia takes on some of Eagan's sassy, bold personality and even her interests, like purple lollipops and skating.

I read every Lurlene McDaniel book out there as a teenager. I had a morbid fascination of teenagers struggling with life threatening illnesses. If you like Lurlene McDaniel, you will definitely like this. Actually, Lurlene has a new book out called Heart To Heart, which has almost exactly the same premise as In A Heartbeat. Without hesitation, I would read In A Heartbeat over Heart To Heart (not that the latter is bad...In A Heartbeat is simply better).

The book is told through alternating viewpoints of Amelia and Eagan. Amelia is joyous at receiving a new chance on life, but also mourning the death of her donor and trying to understand her strange new personality quirks. Eagan is in a limbo-like state and needs to come to terms with her life and death. She tells her side of the story through a series of memories of her life, focusing on her tempestuous relationship with her mother, her close relationship with her grandfather, and her new relationship with her fabulous boyfriend Scott. I thought the switch between Eagan's presence and her past was seamless. The author also deftly wove Amelia post-transplant life and Eagan's pre-and-post-death life together. It has a similar feeling to If I Stay by Gayle Forman and even a bit of Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. In A Heartbeat is a quick read. As you turn the pages, you will be sobbing tears of both joy and sadness.

A Compelling Read
I have this intense love of books about people who have died (or are about to die) and are narrating their story through the afterlife (or some sort of limbo).Morbid? Maybe.Fascinating? Abso-friggin-lutely!The ones most well-known are The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, and If I Stay by Gayle Forman (the last two particularly in YA circles).While I think that In a Heartbeat wasn't as amazing as these three reads, it was still pretty damn good.

I found In a Heartbeat to be an eye-opener of sorts.The grief that the families of organ donors suffer is something that's always been in the forefront of my mind when I read articles about this subject or see documentaries on TV.However, I never really thought about the families of those patients who receive the organs.I guess I'd always assumed that they'd just be happy because of what's happened.So, I was kind of shocked when I read that Amelia was feeling guilty about receiving the heart.I guess it hit me hardest with this quote, "But the fact remained that someone else had to die for me to live.Someone else had to grieve for me to be happy.And every night at dinner, when my family prayed for a new heart for me, we were praying for that to happen."I never thought about it that way, so that definitely struck a chord with me.

However, maybe due to it's length, I never really felt like I connected to any of the characters.I felt like maybe Eagan and especially Amelia should've been a bit more fleshed out.We never really got a sense as to who Amelia was and how her life was before the operation.I think this book should've been just a tad bit longer, hence why I took away one star.

Anyway, I thought In a Heartbeat was a great read.It was compelling and emotional read, which had me tear up more than once.I'm definitely looking forward to more from Loretta Ellsworth as it seems like the YA genre has another fantastic author in its midst.

Review from The Neverending Shelf
In a Heartbeat is a touching look at the sacrifices that one teen can make for the benefit of another. The story is told alternatively by two teens: Eagan and Amelia. Eagan is a star athlete. A figure skater with one eye on the prize and the other on a normal life. Amelia wishes that she could be normal. Instead, she has a failing heart which makes her sickly and frail. Through a tragic accident, Amelia is able to acquire a new heart... Eagan's heart. Told in an honest and straight forward fashion, In a Heartbeat is a magical glimpse at the true meaning of sacrifice, love, and the power of life after death.

Honestly, going into this novel, I thought this was going to be a somber read. I imaged feeling down after reading this novel. However, In a Heartbeat was not what I thought it was going to be. It is a novel about death, but it also explores life. Ellsworth shines in creating a novel that makes the reader think as well as appreciate what they have. She has created two shining characters that make me proud to say that I am an organ donor. This is a moving novel that really gets to the heart (no pun intended) of what a gift life is.

The story is told through Amelia (in the here and now) and Eagan (in the afterlife). Both characters are full of quirks that make them easily separable, but deep down they share a common bond... the heart. This gift binds their future together in a way that neither had ever imagined. While the novel is rather short, it is full of emotion and depth. Ellsworth's message stays with you in the hours following the completion of the read, and really makes you think. For me, that makes this a wonderful novel. It is heartwarming and very touching. In my opinion, this was an A+ novel. I loved every minute of this novel. Ellsworth is an exceptional author, and I expect she has a bright future ahead of her.

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I remember seeing a show years ago on people who receive organs and start having different habits. To me, that's pretty fasnicating. It made me wonder what life would be like having an organ inside of you that wasn't really yours. In A Heartbeat, while fiction, fed my curiosity about this subject. Between the two protangist, you get a glimpse of what life is for the donor and the receiver.

I never expected for this type of story to hit so close to home to me, but it did. It's probably why I ended up loving it so much and wasn't able to put it down. Loretta Ellsworth created such wonderful characters and told their story in a beautiful way. I found it so bizarre how much I related to both of Amelia and Eagan. Amelia took me a bit longer to warm up to, but I know what it's like having something wrong with your heart. I know how scary it can be when you know something is wrong with you. Something you cannot stop from happening. The fact that she's never really got to experience life to the fullest until the moment of her transplant kind of snapped me into how my health could have been if I hadn't been cleared of my own condition when I was a kid.

Eagan was more of my favorite between the two and each time her chapter came along, it was like I was experiencing all of her memories. It made me so sad knowing she'd never get to experience anything ever again. I absolutely adored the close relationship she had with her grandfather. Everything about the two of them reminded me so much of my grandfather and I. I was in tears many times because of it too.

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