Seventeen-year-old Maddie Hickman has always coped with Anxiety by immersing herself into the latest self-help Book. Then her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer, and she spirals so far downward that she almost risks losing everything she holds dear.
From applying to college to solving the mystery of why she detests jelly doughnuts to writing a novel for her senior project and reconnecting with an old flame (or two), the ever-mounting stress leads to an unexpected road trip where she is forced to listen to her wildly beating heart. It is only in the back of a convertible with pop music blasting, that she discovers what she needs in order to really live.If your heart has ever hurt from beating widely, whether from anxiety or love, this book is the one to read.
Till It Stops Beating by
Hannah R. Goodman
Author: Hannah R. Goodman
Pages: 216
Publishing Date: July 5th,2018
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
MY THOUGHTS
Thank you Rachel’s Random Resources for providing a copy of this book for the blog tour.
It is my first book of The Maddie Chronicles series, So I don’t have any idea if there is a background of all the characters in previous books, I didn’t feel at any point that it is a part of series.
Maddie is suffering from anxiety and missing Justin, he isn’t officially his bf but the only guy in her life. Her life is already complicated her sister just got divorced and now her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer. When Sean entered in her life.
Description highlights only cancer and anxiety but a major portion of the story also highlights drugs and alcohol and ALOT.
In the start it is only focused on anxiety then cancer than the broken heart and love scenario then again anxiety and cancer, which makes the story look divided into parts, which obviously affects the reading tempo.
The thing I really liked is family bonding unlike many of other YA there was the role of the family.
There were many characters who feel like fillers, Maybe I haven’t read previous books that’s why but the Noah guy, I didn’t get what was his role in the story.
I read it in one sitting if you are looking for an easy and quick read it is the one.
Purchase Link: Amazon.com , Amazon UK
Author Bio
Often referred to as “the teenage whisperer”, Hannah R. Goodman’s twenty-year career working with teenagers includes the titles teacher, tutor, coach, and, more recently, mental health counsellor. Hannah has written essays about mental health for various online publications. Her work has appeared on MindBodyGreen, OC87 Recovery Diaries, Zencare.co, and The Mighty. Though she has previously earned the title author with her first three books, the last was released in 2009 and all were self-published. This time around, indie publisher Black Rose Writing released her novel Till It Stops Beating this summer.
Hannah’s first YA novel, My Sister’s Wedding, won the first place award for The Writer’s Digest International Self-Publishing Contest, 2004, children’s book division. She published the follow-up, My Summer Vacation, in May 2006, which went on to win a bronze IPPY in 2007. The third Maddie book, Fear of Falling, was released in the fall of 2009 and was praised by teachers and readers for tackling subjects like homophobia and coming out. She’s published young adult short stories on Amazon’s Shorts, in an anthology entitled Bound Is The Bewitching Lilith, and in the journal Balancing The Tides. She also has written columns for The Jewish Voice & Herald. Recent, previous projects include Sucker Literary, which features emerging YA authors and All The Way YA, a group blog of writers telling the real deal about writing and publishing YA fiction.
Hannah is a member of ARIA (Association of Rhode Island Authors) as well as a graduate of Pine Manor College’s Solstice Program in Creative Writing where she earned an MFA in Writing For Young People. She resides in Bristol, RI with her husband, two daughters, and a black and white cat named Zoe
