A Five-Minute Life by Emma Scott
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Recommendation
This book is like nothing I’ve ever read before. So unique and so well-written. A Five-Minute Life is powerful and moving and romantic in a way romance should be. It’s about family and love and hope. It’s heartbreaking, heart-wrenching and hopeful all at once. I was invested in Thea and Jim from the first page and didn’t want it to end. It’s definitely one of the best books I’ve ever read.
Excerpts
I was a dying man in Thea's Egyptian desert, and she was a mirage. An oasis that didn't exist.
Publisher synopsis
Remember us…when I can't.
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.
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.
Review published July 11, 2019