Everything I Thought I Knew, Shannon Takaoka
Everything I Thought I Knew, Shannon Takaoka
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Everything I Thought I Knew

Author: Shannon Takaoka

Narrator: Whitney Dykhouse

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

A teenage girl wonders if she’s inherited more than just a heart from her donor in this compulsively readable debut.Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves—which is strange, because she wasn’t interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn’t hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.) And that’s not all that’s strange. There’s also the vivid recurring nightmare about crashing a motorcycle in a tunnel and memories of people and places she doesn’t recognize. Is there something wrong with her head now, too, or is there another explanation for what she’s experiencing? As she searches for answers, and as her attraction to Kai intensifies, what she learns will lead her to question everything she thought she knew—about life, death, love, identity, and the true nature of reality.

About Shannon Takaoka

Shannon Takaoka has worked as a writer, editor, and public relations consultant in the fields of technology and life sciences. In addition to books, she is a lover of all things nerdy — from time travel to weird science and dragons. Everything I Thought I Knew is her first novel. Shannon Takaoka lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

Here comes a semi unpopular review! This is the first for me to fall in love %75 of a book and then hate the rest of it! The story of struggling 17 years old Chloe whose life completely changes after she collapses her cross country practice and finds out she has a rare heart disease and after her su......more

Goodreads review by sarah

“Here’s one of the many things I thought I knew that turns out to be wrong: you need to fall in love to end up with a broken heart.” Everything I Thought I Knew is an ambitious, genre-bending, unique young adult novel. I went into the book only knowing it was about a high school student who recently......more

Goodreads review by Chloe

Listen, the tears are still drying on my cheeks while I write this review. I don't even want to say too much because I feel like going in without knowing too much is the best way to go into the book--it was an emotional journey of me lunging at my screen yelling NOOOO and then sitting back with a sn......more

Goodreads review by Donna

One Heart. Infinite Possibilities. "Everything I thought I knew -- about life and death, about objective reality, about the nature of time and space and the agreed-upon, scientifically accepted laws of the universe -- is completely, totally, and incredibly wrong." Everything I Thought I Knew t......more

Goodreads review by Amy

Life is what happens when you make plans. Chloe has plans. Her body did not come in agreement with those plans. Her life changed. Her plans changed. She changed. Chloe's heart is failing. Her life is put on hold. Until finally a heart is available and she is able to have a life saving heart transplan......more

Quotes

"Narrator Whitney Dykhouse immediately pulls listeners in with her attentive and expressive portrayal of Chole, an upbeat teenager who learns she will die if she doesn't receive a heart transplant.… It's a solemn but hopeful journey, and Dykhouse's evocative performance never misses an emotional beat in this thoughtful coming-of-age story."
—AudioFile Magazine"Everything I Thought I Knew is a page-turning, mind-bending story of hope and healing. The reader will root for Chloe from page one as she navigates her world post–heart transplant and tries to meld her prior reality with her new one. I couldn’t put it down; it is a beautiful debut from a talented new voice in YA."
—Alexandra Ballard, author of What I Lost

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