Title: Between Heartbeats
Author: Donelle Knudsen
Genre: YA/Romance
Can life change between heartbeats? Diana awakens on her seventeenth birthday in a joyful mood. But at breakfast she is told, during a heated argument with her mother, that the man she has loved as her father is not her father at all. Diana decides to unravel the mystery of her childhood and the reason for their secrets, and travels across the country to visit her step-father. And so, Diana begins a journey where she discovers shocking truths hidden just beneath the surface. To further complicate her summer, she meets Kevin Wright, a college junior. When Kevin vanishes without a trace, Diana learns family is more than shared DNA and discovers who will help her when it appears all hope is gone. In Donelle Knudsen’s Young Adult novel, Between Heartbeats, a young woman’s quest to find her roots enables her to discover love and the power of forgiveness.
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This book was a great read.
It is fast paced and intriguing.
It starts on Diana’s 17th birthday. She learns from her mother that her father
isn’t her biological father. Her mother
is upset because she is going to visit him for a month during summer
break. While visiting her father she
meets Kevin and they begin to get to know each other and then start to
date. This book is about Diana’s mother
Roberta and how Diana begins to think maybe she was kidnapped as a baby and
that her mother isn’t her mother. Also
Kevin goes missing and Diana gets her father, a lawyer, to help in the search
to find him. This book moves very fast
but I didn’t feel like I missed anything.
I can’t imagine what is would feel like to learn that you were kidnapped
as a baby and the person you have thought is your mother your whole life is in
fact your kidnapper. Kevin and Diana’s
relationship is great to read about. He
is super romantic and does all sorts of nice things for her without needing a
reason. They have a long distance
relationship but that doesn’t seem to matter for them. They talk and text all the time. Diana is going through so much most of the
book with Kevin missing and trying to get answers from her mother. Diana’s mother Roberta doesn’t seem to be all
there. Everything has to be about her
even when it has very little to do with her.
She is only worried about how things will affect her. Even when a friend allows her to move in when
she loses her house she is mad because she can’t smoke in the house, watch tv
whenever she wants, etc. It’s almost like
she thinks her friend should change just to suit her. When she appears to be close to getting in
trouble she does childish things to make her the victim and the center of
attention. The only thing that kinda
bugged me was the ending, I felt like I didn’t really get closure with what
happened to Kevin. They had a lead but
then it was left unfinished. All the
characters in this book are great. The
story pulled me and I couldn’t put the book down. This is the first book I have read by Donelle
but I look forward to reading more books by her in the future.
Donelle Knudsen was born in Portland, Oregon, the beautiful City of Roses, but has lived in Eastern Washington since 1988. She also writes short stories, poetry, and memoir, and owes her love of books and the craft of writing to her late father, who was never too busy to read to her or to make visits to the “big” library every Saturday. She then earned a B.S. in Arts & Letters from Portland State University and is a four-time finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association’s literary contest in the memoir category. Her first book, “Through the Tunnel of Love, A Mother’s and Daughter’s Journey with Anorexia” was published in 2011.
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