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Amy Hatvany

Autor de Outside the Lines

17 Obras 1,007 Miembros 93 Reseñas 2 Preferidas

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Créditos de la imagen: Amy Hatvany by Alison Rosa

Obras de Amy Hatvany

Outside the Lines (2012) 184 copias
Best Kept Secret (2011) 179 copias
Heart Like Mine (2013) 157 copias
Safe with Me (2014) 131 copias
Somewhere Out There (2016) 102 copias
The Language of Sisters (2002) 83 copias
Tell Me Everything (2019) 10 copias
Ao encontro do destino (2014) 3 copias
Breaking Open: A Novel (2018) 3 copias
O jardim das memÂorias (2014) 2 copias
A Linguagem das Irmãs (2015) 1 copia
Die Macht der Liebe. (2003) 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1972
Género
female
Lugar de nacimiento
Seattle, Washington, USA
Educación
Western Washington University

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I loved this book, loved the three point of views, which gave the reader a good glimpse into a well-rounded story! Maddie, the teenager POV, was probably my favorite. Maddie has received an organ transplant from Hannah's daughter who has passed away. Hannah is trying to deal with her grief when she meets up with Maddie and her mother, Olivia. Things are turning around for Maddie, thanks to the liver transplant, but behind the perfect life Olivia portrays, is a life of spousal abuse.
Hannah and Olivia become friends, and the three of them weave a wonderful story of the inner strength of women, and how important friends are. A quick, enjoyable read!… (más)
 
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JillHannah | 8 reseñas más. | Nov 20, 2023 |
It Happens All the Time/Amy Hatvany Amber Bryant and Tyler Hicks have been best friends since they were teenagers—trusting and depending on each other through some of the darkest periods of their young lives. And while Amber has always felt that their relationship is strictly platonic, Tyler has long harbored the secret desire that they might one day become more than friends.
Returning home for the summer after her college graduation, Amber begins spending more time with Tyler than she has in years. Despite the fact that Amber is engaged to her college sweetheart, a flirtation begins to grow between them. One night, fueled by alcohol and concerns about whether she’s getting married too young, Amber kisses Tyler.
What happens next will change them forever.
In alternating points of view, It Happens All the Time examines the complexity of sexual dynamics between men and women and offers an incisive exploration of gender roles, expectations, and the ever-timely issue of consent.
 
Ugh, this book was so important and covered such an important and rare perspective that although I didn't actually like it that much, I so highly recommend it.
 
Hatvany does an extraordinary good job of transitioning between sections. The book is told from two perspectives across multiple stretches of time, and although the chapters didn't indicate explicitly which part of the year they were being told from, it was always completely clear to me, which I found to be incredibly effective. I didn't get lost ever and I felt like the author guided me very clearly through the story.
 
I think this book is important. I think it tackles huge topics. I think Tyler's perspective sheds so much light on similar people's thought processes. I think today's society needs this book.
 
But I didn't appreciate the events that prompted the ending. I didn't like how one incident, the one that opens the book, influenced my entire thinking. I would have liked to have seen the actions that one character would have taken had he not had this outside event impacting him. And for me, that seriously detracted from the book.
 
And I didn't find Tyler's character to be as sympathetic as perhaps I was supposed to. His friendship with Amber as he grew up didn't strike me as particularly meaningful. I wished Amber had reached out and found other friends, and I felt like when she was at university, she would have.
 
Mainly, I just never get particularly engrossed in this book. It was easy enough to read, but even though Amber was an extremely motivated and well-rounded character, the type I normally love, I found it hard to really get involved, and I felt like there were many points where I could have stopped reading and simply forgotten about the book.
 
So I recommend this book, I do, because it's important. But I think it could have been better executed.
 
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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whakaora | 9 reseñas más. | Mar 5, 2023 |
Trigger warning: Rape and eating disorder

I have been loving Amy Hatvany for a while. I was glad to see her newest offering that takes a hard look at rape between childhood best friends, Amber and Tyler. I think that she did a very good job showing both Amber and Tyler's POV and even showing how Amber wasn't the "perfect victim" and why it doesn't matter. Via other characters we get Amber being buoyed up with being told she was not at fault, it be nice in real life if most victims got this kind of support from family and friends.

"It Happens All the Time" begins in medias res. We have a character named Amber holding another character named Tyler at gunpoint. Tyler seems to know why Amber is holding a gun on him, but it takes us a bit to get there.

Amber is home from her senior year of college, hesitant about seeing her childhood friend Tyler. The last time they saw each other, they argued since she accused him of being jealous of her new relationship. Amber is happy though that Tyler has seemed to let things go, and when she pops up engaged, she starts to wonder if she is ready to get married or not.

Tyler has been in love with Amber almost as soon as he has known her. He's jealous of her new relationship and starts jumping for joy when Amber comes home for the summer and starts flirting with him. His ship comes in (so to speak) when he finally thinks he and Amber are going to be a couple after finally having sex. The problem is that Tyler thinks what happened was consensual, Amber in her POV does not. When Tyler realizes that Amber believes he raped her (oh he did btw) he goes through regret, anger and a lot of self justification.

Besides these two characters I have to applaud Hatvany having in some great secondary characters. I do have to say though, Tyler's father was one note and cartoonish in some aspects. But I have to say it was great having Tyler's parents in here doing the whole, of course my son did nothing wrong, and your daughter shouldn't have been drinking crap. How many times are rape victims attacked for daring to drink, wear short clothes, and shit just be out among a group of men.

I loved Tyler's partner who gave him crap as soon as he realized what Tyler did and gave him no quarter. Amber's parents were fantastic and very believable about being angry and not knowing what to do about their daughter who is spiraling in so many directions.

The writing I thought was top-notch. Hatvany does such a good job with both characters voices and always does another great job of including real life thoughts/comments that are made by victims and perpetrators as well. Amber blames herself for drinking, flirting, and kissing Tyler. Tyler doesn't see himself as a rapist, he chalks this up to Amber being like those girls/women who drink too much and then want to blame alcohol and the guy for their choices. FYI, Tyler made me wish he come alive so I could knee him repeatedly. I think this book is a good discussion topic for a book club or other groups who want to discuss consent in this day and age since we still have people (men and women) not getting it.

I do have to bring up the fact that there is also discussions of Amber having a former eating disorder that rears its ugly head again after she is raped. And you can see that Amber still has an obsession (somewhat) of what she eats and how often she exercises.

The setting of this book takes place in Washington state. Sadly, you don't get to read much about the location during this book besides Amber looking to relocate to Seattle and one day become a sports medicine doctor for the Seahawks.

I don't think I can say this book had a happy ending per se, but you can see that Amber is going to do what it takes to become stronger without relying on a man again to make her feel that way.
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ObsidianBlue | 9 reseñas más. | Jul 1, 2020 |

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