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A review by beate251
Meet Me When My Heart Stops by Becky Hunter
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This is a very weird story. Becky has a (thankfully fictitious) condition that means her heart literally stops if she gets shocked by something like a sudden pain or noise. She can be brought round but in those moments where she is technically dead, she meets Nick who is kind of a guide who should lead her to the afterlife. Only that there isn't one for her as she always comes back to life. Over the years she feels more and more for Nick who battles the trauma of his own death. Then a drug comes on the market that could stop her episodes - but it would mean never seeing Nick again.
I loved One Moment by Becky Hunter and so I was excited to finally get the opportunity to read this. But try as I might, I couldn't love it. I have a heart condition myself, and just thinking about my heart stopping without warning makes me shudder. But falling in love with a dead man you meet the first time when you're five years old and who is supposed to have a professional relation to you is just creepy, I can't get over it. Her whole life she has lovely dependable Colin right next to her, but she pines for a dead person she could never properly be with. I found it so sad, how directionless she was, flitting from job to job and city to city.
If this novel shows anything is that life is unpredictable - the girl whose heart can stop any minute is overtaken (or is that undertaken) by her older sister who had so much to live for.
I found this book well-written but profoundly sad, and also often chaotic, jumping years and aftermaths of her death episodes as if there were completely normal.
I loved One Moment by Becky Hunter and so I was excited to finally get the opportunity to read this. But try as I might, I couldn't love it. I have a heart condition myself, and just thinking about my heart stopping without warning makes me shudder. But falling in love with a dead man you meet the first time when you're five years old and who is supposed to have a professional relation to you is just creepy, I can't get over it. Her whole life she has lovely dependable Colin right next to her, but she pines for a dead person she could never properly be with. I found it so sad, how directionless she was, flitting from job to job and city to city.
If this novel shows anything is that life is unpredictable - the girl whose heart can stop any minute is overtaken (or is that undertaken) by her older sister who had so much to live for.
I found this book well-written but profoundly sad, and also often chaotic, jumping years and aftermaths of her death episodes as if there were completely normal.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, Child death, and Medical content