A Five-Minute Life by Emma Scott
Release Date: May 16th, 2019
(I'm including both covers because after reading the book, the first one is just so perfect that I can't leave it out!)
A
Five-Minute Life, an all-new standalone new adult romance by International bestselling
author Emma Scott is Live!
Thea Hughes has five minutes to live.
A car accident stole her parents and left her with the second-worst
documented case of amnesia in the world. She now has only minutes of
experiences, of consciousness, of life…before her memory is wiped clean. The
once effervescent artist with a promising future is reduced to scribbling with
pens and paper, living an empty, quiet life, three hundred seconds at a time.
Jim Whelan is on autopilot.
A foster kid shuffled around the system since birth, he’s lived his
entire life without knowing love…and it’s taken its toll—until he learned to
fight back, carry his armor, and keep his head down.
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| Original Cover |
Working as an orderly in the Blue Ridge Sanitarium, deep in Virginia
countryside, Jim looked up…and found Thea.
When Thea has the chance to break free of her five-minute prison with a
risky, experimental surgery, it could lead them both to an epic love they never
thought possible… or one that could require the ultimate sacrifice.
A stand-alone, new
adult romance.
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| I really didn't know what I was getting into with this book, but it was really good and so worth it. This is definitely not your traditional romance novel. On one hand, it had a 50 First Dates vibe (not as comedic though), but at the same time, for the beginning of the book, it didn't feel like a romance. It had a feel of Jim trying to help, give someone a voice when he, for so long, didn't have one of his own. He saw things other people missed. He was a new pair of eyes, a fresh pair of eyes to Thea and her situation. It was frustrating that the people that had been caring for Thea were ignoring things Jim was seeing because it was "normal" to them. I was really glad when Dr. Chen came in and started reevaluating Thea, and actually listened to what Jim had observed. One of the most interesting things was Thea's short POVs. It gave you some insight into what she was experiencing when she was "aware" before resetting. I'll admit, I did wonder if there would be any romance in the book at all...because how could anything happen when she wasn't able to make new memories and she reset every 5-7 minutes? Obviously that wasn't going to happen. But there were definite twists and turns and revelations that kept me glued to my kindle. I definitely won't spoil this book, but I have to say that I really hated Delia, Thea's sister. Yes, I felt for her because of everything she had been through and endured with Thea's situation but at the same time, I really wanted to shove her off a cliff. This book is DEFINITELY a must read, and I can't recommend it enough! |
“Marc
Antony,” I said and nodded at her drawing. “Part of your Egyptian studies?”
Thea
leaned her cheek on her folded hands like she was warming herself before a
fire. “Marc Antony is part of the romance. A love story with Cleopatra. He went
to war for her. Died for her. When they told her he was dead, she put her hand
in a basket with an asp. Can you imagine? Loving someone so much that the
thought of life without them is too unbearable?”
“No,”
I said. “I can’t.”
Her
gaze dropped to my hand on the table and her fingers reached to trace the scars
on my knuckles.
These
tell a story, don’t they?” She traced one of the fine lines. “You put your hand
in with the snakes, too.”
I
nodded slowly, savoring the feel of her warm skin on mine. “So the bullies
would leave me alone.”
“Eventually.”
“I’m
glad.” She put her hand in mine completely, her fingers wrapping around and
holding tight. “I’m being too… something. Personal. Delia would throw a fit,
but I feel like…”
“Like
what, Thea?”
“Like
I have to hold on to this moment, you know? Or you… I don’t even know you and
yet I don’t want to stop talking to you.” Her hand squeezed mine. “I don’t care
if you have a stutter, but please keep talking to me, Jimmy. Okay?”
My
mouth went dry at the nameless desperation in her eyes.
Jesus, does she know she’s trapped? She
can’t. Impossible…
“I won’t,” I said. “I’ll talk to you every
day. I promise.”
Thea
breathed a small sigh of relief and released my hand. “Thank you, Jimmy. That
makes me feel better.”
With
a final smile—a parting smile, I realized—she took up her pen and then froze.
She’s resetting.
Confusion
passed over her features. She looked up at me, flinching a little to see a big
man in close proximity. I instantly leaned back to give her space.
“How
long has it been?” she asked.
“Two
years,” I said, my voice hardly more than a whisper. “But the doctors are
working on your case.”
“Yes,
they are.” She smiled hesitantly and found my nametag. “I’m Thea Hughes.”
Seven. Seven times now.
“Jim
Whelan,” I said.
She
offered her hand. Again. I took it robotically, enduring her one-pump shake.
Again. Her fingers didn’t linger in mine but released immediately, the way you
do with a stranger. Again.
“Nice
to meet you, Jim Whelan.”
Fuck. I can’t do this.
I
rose to my feet. “I have to get to work.”
Her
face fell. “Oh. Bummer. Will I see you again?”
I
could promise her I would, but she wouldn’t remember. There was no promise. I
could tell her the sky was falling or my name was Abraham Lincoln and she
wouldn’t know the damn difference. It’d vanish, like every other word we’d ever
spoken to each other. I vanished
every time her reset hit and was recreated over again in Thea’s eyes. I could
be whatever I wanted; whomever I wanted. And yet she was the one woman I
might’ve had a chance to be myself with.
The
terrible irony of it was like copper in my mouth.
“Sure,
Miss Hughes,” I said. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Emma Scott is a bestselling author of emotional, character-driven
romances in which art and love intertwine to heal, and in which love always
wins. If you enjoy emotionally-charged stories that rip your heart out and put
it back together again, with diverse characters and kind-hearted heroes, you
will enjoy her novels.
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