MY HEARTBEAT is a short book and the plot is pretty simple. MY HEARTBEAT does this to some extent, but it ages less poorly than books like WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER and LUNA, in which the leads in both cases are bigots and their relationship with the LGBT+ person is meant to be educational. Which, admittedly, is hugely problematic. They aren't questioning their identities or having something happen to them that changes the concept of their own gradually forming identity usually, in these books, they are questioning an LGBT+ person's identity or the LGBT+ person is something that 'happens' to them. I feel like a lot of LGBT+ books from the aughts were written with straight/cis people in mind as the primary audience, because often, a straight/cis person is the main character in these books. For many years, this was one of my favorite books, and I remember having a huge crush on the love interest, James. MY HEARTBEAT was an exciting choice for me because it's actually a book that I'm revisiting- when I read it for the first time, I was a teenager myself. It's Pride Month and I've been trying to read all of the LGBT+ books on my Kindle that I wasn't able to get to during the rest of the year. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest My Heartbeat is a fast, furious story in which a quirky triangle learns to change its shape and Ellen, at least, learns the limits of what you can ever know about whom you love. When is curiosity a betrayal? And if James says he loves her, isn’t that just another way of saying he still loves Link? Ellen’s parents want Link to keep his secrets to himself, but Ellen wants to know who her brother really is. James refuses to stay friends with a boy so full of secrets. Then someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other.

She’ll always love James just the way she’ll always love Link.

“When you grow out of it,” James teases her, “you will break my heart.”Įllen knows she’ll never outgrow it. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants.

My heartbeat by garret freymann weyr