This book left me with tears but also with a smile.Īllison was a girl lost in the foster care system until one man changed her life. Jessica Park wrote a meaningful, hopeful story that will break and mend your heart. Jessica Park's words are so stunning and beautiful that in all the emotion that comes with this book, I am left feeling completely at peace immediately after I finished reading.It takes one second or 180 to change someone’s life but it took one book to change mine. That's how incredibly gorgeous this story is. “The kind [of book} that you'll find yourself rereading a third and fourth time when you least expect it.

I feel changed because of this book, and isn't that what it's all about? I feel like my heart was put through a grinder with this book, then glued back together, and is somehow stronger afterwards.”-Rebecca

Yet, then I pick up 180 Seconds by Jessica Park, and I'm proven wrong. “I've read books that made me feel so many emotions that I didn't think it was possible to feel more. Once you dive in and she starts peeling back all the layers of these characters and world she has created, you cant help but get lost there.” -mge2010 What I love most about Jessica Park's books is that you're not just getting your typical young adult, romance novel. “It's not often that I leave 5 star reviews for books, that is of course unless I feel they are rightfully warranted, and this is definitely one of those instances. “She's done it again! As always, this was perfectly touching and tender without feeling contrived.”-C. I'm honestly a bit lost for words right now.”-SpoilerGirl6277 “I know Jessica Park's way with words, and yet with every new book, she takes me on another delicious roller coaster ride of emotions. With a push from her oldest friend, Allison embarks on a journey to find out if what she and Esben shared is the real thing-and if she can finally trust in herself, in others, and in love. When time is called, the intensity of the experience overwhelms Allison and Esben in a way that unnerves and electrifies them both. Neither she, nor Esben Baylor, the dreamy social media star seated opposite her, is prepared for the outcome. Suddenly, she finds herself in front of a crowd, forced to interact with a complete stranger for 180 seconds. One unsuspecting afternoon, Allison is roped into a social experiment just off campus. But as she begins her third year in college, she finds it increasingly difficult to disappear into the white noise pouring from her earbuds. Adopted at sixteen, she knows better than to believe in the permanence of anything. For Allison Dennis, all it takes is 180 seconds…Īfter a life spent bouncing from one foster home to the next, Allison is determined to keep others at arm’s length.

Some people live their entire lives without changing their perspective.

180 seconds by jessica park