As far as first impressions go, this was a fairly good start, as the book had a cheerful cover, with the title Heartbeat. A title like Heartbeat could relate to many things, and so doesn’t give away much what the book's about, so this is a positive, as it keeps you guessing.

However those are all the positive points that could come from a book like this, as it is set out so that each short chapter is in poem form. This could have been a positive, if there was a good story behind it, which there wasn’t. The book was about a teenage girl called Annie, who liked to run and paint.

This is not the type of book that I would want to keep reading, as it wasn’t a book where anything exciting happened.

Sorry to Sharon Creech, as the poetry form could have been so successful, with the right plot; but it was difficult to follow so my rating is four out ten.