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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
The description and cover of this book do not give it away at all as the heartbreaker it is!! I think I cried most of the second half of the book. My only real flaw in the book was while the majority of the characters are really well developed and dynamic, Epsen isn’t. He’s just a little too perfect and his flaws that are detailed just add to his perfect
This is such a beautiful book to read but hard in some ways. It was so sad at the end that I almost cried. Fiction is never just fiction. To me, it’s real, and I see how much I resonate with Allison’s story and the loss of a loved one at such a young age. That broke me.
I love the sweet love she enjoys from the people around her. Everyone needs that.
Jessica Park never disappoints.
Everyone, read this book!
I love the sweet love she enjoys from the people around her. Everyone needs that.
Jessica Park never disappoints.
Everyone, read this book!
Very cheesy but I also didn’t want to stop reading through most of the book. I cried about the situation toward the end involving Steffi but what made me enjoy this book was Allison’s relationship with her father.
At the same time, I feel like a lot of the plot was rushed- im not the biggest fan of insta-love and cheap plot twists but I still consider this a guilty pleasure.
At the same time, I feel like a lot of the plot was rushed- im not the biggest fan of insta-love and cheap plot twists but I still consider this a guilty pleasure.
This may leave you breathless
What a wonderful love story, between a boy and a girl but mainly an internal love story about letting down your walls and letting others in. Thank you to Amy N for recommending this book and author.
What a wonderful love story, between a boy and a girl but mainly an internal love story about letting down your walls and letting others in. Thank you to Amy N for recommending this book and author.
DROPPED 33%
Too much drama and angst from the very beginning. An orphan with issues, "instant" connection in 180 seconds, internet sensation, drama, drama, drama. You can tell it's gonna be an "I'm damaged and love fixed me" and that's just not where I am right now.
Too much drama and angst from the very beginning. An orphan with issues, "instant" connection in 180 seconds, internet sensation, drama, drama, drama. You can tell it's gonna be an "I'm damaged and love fixed me" and that's just not where I am right now.
*2.4/5 stars*
“It’s going to hurt until it doesn’t anymore.”
180 seconds wasn't what I expected it to be coming into this book. This is not a story about college girl with anxiety, not really, at least not for me. Yes, Allison has anxiety, but it's mostly at the very beginning and then it pretty much dissipates into thin air mainly becuse of the romance. A few chapters after she meets the love interest - Esben, she just kind of decides to be more brave and start her life etc, and I cannot help but feel like there's no development, no slow change, no real struggle in her character. Something to make me connect to her more. And it's not realistic for me.
And the fact that it mostly changed because of the love interest aggravated me. Her mental health wasn't romanticized, not exactly, but it gave way too much credit to 'the power of love' in my opinion.
I also felt like Allison unloaded all her problems on Esben way too quickly, just the second time they met. And it felt unrealistic to me since she grew up in foster care system and had pretty hard trust issues, so the idea of her sharing so much of herself with a stranger doesn't click with me.
“Because he knows me well enough, he doesn’t step toward me expecting an embrace or some other emotional or physical display. Simon gets a lot of credit for respecting my boundaries. He knows that connection is not my thing.
People are not my thing.
Trust is not my thing.”
And after her rather sudden change, the story has kind of gone into a whole different direction. Some of the events that happened - or were mentioned - felt rather dramatic. I thought it would be a quiet story centered on a girl struggling with her anxiety, trust and family, but alas, not really.
The way this book was overstuffed with some dramatic events which didn't really suit the direction of the story I imagined reminded me of my former like-hate relationship with Hoover's Hopeless. It felt a lot like emotional blackmail to me, especially toward the end.
“Hold on to your one. Remember? I have you, and you have me. And when you’re lucky enough to find one—just one—person in this unforgiving life who makes everything worth it, who you love and trust and would kill for, then you hold on damn tight, because that’s probably all you get. We got this,” Steffi says with conviction.
It's also really cheesy. Though the romance was supportive and sweet and adorable for NA book. It's actually way better than most New Adult I've read. There are no annoying tropes from that genre. The love interest was pretty much perfect - supportive, joyful, open and kind but sometimes way too optimistic for me, and he had a reason for what he did.
There were some side relationships, like with Allison and her quirky adoptive father or her best friend Steffi, but nothing else really stood out and it was clear that the romance took precedence in this one to other relationships.
Danny stands and towers over us. “I’m gonna make a much better princess than you, Jase.”
“Yeah, good luck with that. Just you wait. I am going to rock this out so hard.”
Overall, it was actually pretty enjoyable book which lot of readers will surely enjoy, but it just wasn't written entirely for me. I don't know why, but I got way too hyped up when this book was coming out becuse I've heard that it's about anxiety and it has great romance, yet lot was missing for me to love this book and the direction of it was different then I wanted. This book has it's ups and downs, but for New Adult read, it's great nonetheless. I'd say that, maybe, fans of Colleen Hoover and such books will like 180 seconds more.
“Those one hundred and eighty seconds with Esben somehow threw me into a whirlwind.
Either I get slammed to the ground by that force or I soar.”
“It’s going to hurt until it doesn’t anymore.”
180 seconds wasn't what I expected it to be coming into this book. This is not a story about college girl with anxiety, not really, at least not for me. Yes, Allison has anxiety, but it's mostly at the very beginning and then it pretty much dissipates into thin air mainly becuse of the romance. A few chapters after she meets the love interest - Esben, she just kind of decides to be more brave and start her life etc, and I cannot help but feel like there's no development, no slow change, no real struggle in her character. Something to make me connect to her more. And it's not realistic for me.
And the fact that it mostly changed because of the love interest aggravated me. Her mental health wasn't romanticized, not exactly, but it gave way too much credit to 'the power of love' in my opinion.
I also felt like Allison unloaded all her problems on Esben way too quickly, just the second time they met. And it felt unrealistic to me since she grew up in foster care system and had pretty hard trust issues, so the idea of her sharing so much of herself with a stranger doesn't click with me.
“Because he knows me well enough, he doesn’t step toward me expecting an embrace or some other emotional or physical display. Simon gets a lot of credit for respecting my boundaries. He knows that connection is not my thing.
People are not my thing.
Trust is not my thing.”
And after her rather sudden change, the story has kind of gone into a whole different direction. Some of the events that happened - or were mentioned - felt rather dramatic. I thought it would be a quiet story centered on a girl struggling with her anxiety, trust and family, but alas, not really.
The way this book was overstuffed with some dramatic events which didn't really suit the direction of the story I imagined reminded me of my former like-hate relationship with Hoover's Hopeless. It felt a lot like emotional blackmail to me, especially toward the end.
“Hold on to your one. Remember? I have you, and you have me. And when you’re lucky enough to find one—just one—person in this unforgiving life who makes everything worth it, who you love and trust and would kill for, then you hold on damn tight, because that’s probably all you get. We got this,” Steffi says with conviction.
It's also really cheesy. Though the romance was supportive and sweet and adorable for NA book. It's actually way better than most New Adult I've read. There are no annoying tropes from that genre. The love interest was pretty much perfect - supportive, joyful, open and kind but sometimes way too optimistic for me, and he had a reason for what he did.
There were some side relationships, like with Allison and her quirky adoptive father or her best friend Steffi, but nothing else really stood out and it was clear that the romance took precedence in this one to other relationships.
Danny stands and towers over us. “I’m gonna make a much better princess than you, Jase.”
“Yeah, good luck with that. Just you wait. I am going to rock this out so hard.”
Overall, it was actually pretty enjoyable book which lot of readers will surely enjoy, but it just wasn't written entirely for me. I don't know why, but I got way too hyped up when this book was coming out becuse I've heard that it's about anxiety and it has great romance, yet lot was missing for me to love this book and the direction of it was different then I wanted. This book has it's ups and downs, but for New Adult read, it's great nonetheless. I'd say that, maybe, fans of Colleen Hoover and such books will like 180 seconds more.
“Those one hundred and eighty seconds with Esben somehow threw me into a whirlwind.
Either I get slammed to the ground by that force or I soar.”
I don't think I'll recommend it to anyone. I felt manipulated by it. It got an emotional response, but it felt cliche.
This book was a great story. I fell in love with characters and laughed and cried and it really had me thinking about what you can do in 180 seconds, it also made me think about making sure to seize every opportunity and not take anything for granted.
This book was emotionally beautiful. The characters were complex and so relatable. Sometimes you pick up a book to pass the time and you stumble across something that completes you. ❤️
"¿Sabes qué se siente mejor que cualquier cosa física? La sensación de enamorarse de alguien como me estoy enamorando de ti."