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A review by stacyroth
The Tell-Tale Heart by Jill Dawson
3.0
I received an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review.
Patrick is a 50-year-old, womanizing professor. He has been given 6 months to live, but after a 16-year-old boy dies in a motorcycle accident, he is given a heart transplant and a second chance at life. As he recovers, Patrick is no longer interested in his old life and seeks to find information about the boy whose heart he received.
The book kept trying to insinuate that Patrick's changing interests could be caused by muscle memory of the heart he received. However, it seemed more like getting a second chance at life was a wake-up call for him not to continue the way he had been living.
The book goes back and forth between Patrick's story and those of Drew Beamish, whose heart he received, and Willie Beamiss, Drew's ancestor from the early 1800s.
The book was interesting at parts and seemed to drag on at other parts. Overall, I liked the book but would not recommend it as a must-read.
Patrick is a 50-year-old, womanizing professor. He has been given 6 months to live, but after a 16-year-old boy dies in a motorcycle accident, he is given a heart transplant and a second chance at life. As he recovers, Patrick is no longer interested in his old life and seeks to find information about the boy whose heart he received.
The book kept trying to insinuate that Patrick's changing interests could be caused by muscle memory of the heart he received. However, it seemed more like getting a second chance at life was a wake-up call for him not to continue the way he had been living.
The book goes back and forth between Patrick's story and those of Drew Beamish, whose heart he received, and Willie Beamiss, Drew's ancestor from the early 1800s.
The book was interesting at parts and seemed to drag on at other parts. Overall, I liked the book but would not recommend it as a must-read.