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The Heartbeat Hypothesis Kindle Edition

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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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Entangled: Embrace
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20 March 2017
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XBY8Q9N
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Entangled: Embrace (20 March 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1230 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 243 pages

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Lindsey is the romance author of The Heartbeat Hypothesis, To Whatever End, and Project A.I.D.E.N.

She lives in 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 mostly as inspiration. When she’s not crafting stories, you'll likely find her spending time with her dogs, gaming, 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.)

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Bec

4.5 Stars, Ms. Frydman has penned a wonderful debut novel in this book.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 March 2017

Audra Madison knows she's lucky to have gotten a second chance at life when she received Emily Cavanaugh's heart. Now she's determined not to let anything stand in her way of living life to the fullest and creating memories that Emily should have been experiencing. But first she needs someone to chronicle her journey and there's no one she'd rather want by her side than Jake Cavanaugh. He's a photographer and just happens to be Emily's brother. But when secrets from the past start to unravel and Audra finds herself unable to stop from wanting to help Jake discover the truth of what happened to his sister once and for all, will she lose the man she's falling in love with?

I'm not usually one to read New Adult Romance unless I really like the blurb, which I did for this book, so I'm glad I chose to read it as it was a delightful read full of plot twists that made me sympathize with everything Audra goes through that shows her life's too short. Right from the beginning, this story immediately drew me in because of what the heroine is going through and what she wants to do to honor the life of the teenage girl whose heart Audra ended up with to save her life.

The dialogue was intense due to the heroine's back story, believing she was going to die until she received a heart transplant. However, it was plot twists in what happens to Audra and what happens to the heroine's best friend that made this story a real page turner for me, even if they did make me cry. How much does the heroine have to endure before she finds happiness? Will she be able to help Jake overcome his past by finding the truth of what happened to his sister? Yet, there were also some light-hearted moments throughout this story that made me smile. Audra is good for Jake. She's the one person he can completely open up to about his past, which was needed to help him heal.

Both Audra and Jake were fantastic characters, and I loved every moment they conversed whether Jake was being friendly towards the heroine or whether he was being a complete jerk. Audra is strong and brave when it comes to everything she goes through and I liked that she didn't give up on Jake in the moments where he tried to push her away, because he believed he wasn't good enough to be her friend let alone anything else. Indeed, she's a fighter when it comes to her condition, dealing with her grief and showing Jake that he's not alone. That she's there for him, if he'll let her in. While Jake, he's been through so much and losing his sister was hard. He hasn't dealt with his grief and has closed himself off from getting close to people, yet Audra manages to break through his walls. And really, I was cheering for her every step of the way because Jake needed her.

Overall, Ms. Frydman has penned a fantastic read in this debut book, which was filled with plenty of emotion that I felt along with the characters, especially the heroine. The way this story ended had me worried due to Jake's reaction to what Audra does when it comes to trying to find the answers he wants, but I was glad he made things right between them. Besides, what Audra did and what it led to helped him find some peace to his past in the end, which he desperately needed and deserved because of what he believed really happened to his sister. I would recommend The Heartbeat Hypothesis by Lindsey Frydman, if you're looking to read your very first New Adult Romance, or if you enjoy books by authors Sophia Henry, Ophelia London or Jennifer Blackwood.

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Kristy Feltenberger Gillespie

a fun loving college student

Reviewed in the United States on 18 August 2017

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When Audra Madison, a fun loving college student, seeks out the mysterious, indecisive Jake Cavanugh, her transplanted heart quickens. It's a strange sensation considering Jake's sister, Emily, was Audra's heart donor.

Audra wants to pay tribute to Emily's life by experiencing the things Emily did before she died. And she wants Jake to be the photographer. He agrees.

Other than a failed heart, Audra has had a pretty good life complete with a best friend and loving parents. Jake hasn't been so lucky. Audra brings so much hope to their relationship but it's hard for Jake to feel anything but grief after what he's had to deal with.

Their relationship is so many things- sweet (they eat Twizzlers on a picnic) bitter (Jake pushes Audra away and Audra pushes Jake to talk about painful things) and heartbreaking. (Insert many things that made me cry here).

My heart felt like it was breaking after something tragic happens to Audra. It felt so unfair. But I think this heartbreak had to happen to Audra so that she could understand the severity of Jake's loss. So that it could ultimately bring them closer. Although my heart ached while reading The Heartbeat Hypothesis, the author mended it at the end.

This novel is heart-breakingly beautiful. Recommend!

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DonnaC

4.5 what a debut stars

Reviewed in the United States on 25 March 2017

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The Heartbeat Hypothesis by Lindsey Frydman
4.5 stars!!!

“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.

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Abraham A Haskins

Great ending

Reviewed in the United States on 7 July 2019

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I sorta pride myself on my ability to call where plots in movies and books are going, and I really enjoyed that I went into the final scene with no idea what was going to happen. It was an interestingly correct description of the ambiguity of modern life that led to that view. Given that the author had established a willingness to break expectations in the mid-book twist, I'm not surprised that she was able to play to her strengths to continue to do so as the book came to its conclusion.

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sue

New Adult and angst

Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2017

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If you like New Adult and a boatload of angst and deep emotion, then this might be the book for you. The characters were typical of their age but had a ton of more mature problems they had to deal with. The writing was very well done and the romance progressed slowly and sweetly. I was glad to see this wasn't a book where they jumped into bed immediately with nothing but sex scene after sex scene. Their relationship was built on friendship and respect. That's something we don't get as often these days in romance. Nicely done Lindsey Frydman!

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Ellen

Great story!

Reviewed in the United States on 19 February 2018

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Great story! Both characters were deep, nuanced people with their own messy backgrounds and their own doubts about their future. I love a love story that shows two people fitting the jagged edges of their lives together and making something beautiful. <3 The unexpected twists and turns in this plot kept me at the edge of my seat!

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