A Five-Minute Life

Whewww.



MY.FUCKING.HEART.

Let me just say that I was happy with the ending, but damn! This was a roller coaster of emotions for me. It was captivatingly beautiful & fucking heartbreaking.

Let's start with the plot:

Thea is this 21 year old art major with a witty personality. On her sister's graduation day, Thea and her parents load up in the car to watch her sister's ceremony. On the way there, they get hit head on. This car accident claims the lives of her parents & gives Thea one of the world's worst cases of amnesia. She can only remember 5 minutes & then her memory resets itself.

Jimmy is a 24 year old man that got dealt a shit hand very early in life. He was shuffled around foster homes until he was 18. None of his foster parents ever cared for him, especially his last and longest foster mom, Doris. He lands a job at the brain center where Thea is being treated and as soon as they met, he started to fall in love with her, 5 minutes at a time.

I thought that this book was going to be a somewhat lighthearted read. I figured it would be a bit sad, but it would just be one of those sweet love stories. I thought that Jimmy would fall in love with her, she would get a procedure that made her remember everything and then she would get to fall in love with Jimmy & live happily ever after. Boy was I fucking wrong.

This book took a semi-dark turn that I wasn't expecting. One of the scenes completely blindsided me, but thankfully Jimmy mostly saved her.

Also, I wasn't expecting the those fucking sex scenes!!!


This was just a beautiful story & I don't think that I can go any deeper into it without spoiling it for you guys. I absolutely loved both of the main characters & most of the side characters too. I will tell you that I absolutely HATED the sister, Delia. That bitch can rot. I felt that she did not have Thea's best interest at heart, only her own.

I think that one of the saddest parts of this story was just how well the author wrote about this condition. To just have 5 minutes to live your life and then....not remember it. You have to start all over again, and again, and again. It's truly heartbreaking.

“The alone-ness. It's not the same as loneliness. Alone-ness is an abyss. It's being alone even when you're surrounded by people. It's vast and empty and silent.”

Thank you, Emma Scott. I truly adored this book. However, I probably won't be reading another one of your stories for a little while since this one put me through the ringer. But, kudos to you for actually making me feel that way. What's a book without some emotion, right?