20 Minutes to Change a Life (20 Minutes #10) by Daniel Hurst
Genre: Psychological thriller, Quick Read, Novella
Read: 26th February 2025
Published: 4th March 2021
★★★★ 4 stars
DESCRIPTION:
The halfway point of the 20 Minute Series!
Set over one 20 minute period on a busy afternoon, the tenth book in the series sees familiar characters return for a day that highlights just how quickly things can change.
Success. Failure. Wrong decisions. Chance encounters. And plain bad luck.
It only takes a second for life to change. So imagine what can happen in 20 minutes...
MY THOUGHTS:
We have hit the halfway mark in the series! Taking place two weeks after "20 Minutes of Valentine's Day", this one is a whole lot of foundation setting up for the next book in Las Vegas.
Lots of returning characters. Jelena kicks things off again and I'm happy that things are back to normal for the young couple. I was devastated when she walked out on Christmas Eve that I actually scanned through the next few books to see if they got back together! lol She and Bogdan are so wonderful together and while they may not have much, they have each other. But then something is just around the corner that is about to change their lives. After all, wasn't what this book was all about? 20 minutes to change a life? And that's exactly what happens...to more than one person here.
I'm glad to see Harry do something that doesn't see him end up in some kind of trouble. I was so thrilled for him. Especially as my dad's football team is also West Ham having been West Ham born and bred, so the team kind of holds a special place in my heart, as does Harry.
I'm getting a little tired of Carol's medical appointments for her and Steve. So it was refreshing to see something different this time round, even if it was reminiscent of a season of Dexter about the motivational speaker he then killed because of his penchant for taking what he want because he believed it to be his. The guy they listened to at the event reminded me of him. Seeing it believing? No, believe it and you'll see it! I'm not saying it rubbish, but they do tend to just make money off of people who are looking for something more by spouting a bunch of motivational quotes. This chapter may have been a refreshing change from Carol's normal narratives, but it was somewhat more boring.
Tom's wife Kelly. She's just nuts. Petty and insane. She didn't want Tom until she realised he had found someone else. Now she wants him back.
I'm loving the building story between Louise and Will. I don't know what I never noticed they had the same surname before, considering they have both been in the series from the start.
April may have lost her drinking buddy, so what does she do? Take the alcohol to the cemetery and drink her way to oblivion there! Sorry, but all she seemed to do was drink and get blotto before and nothing's changed. She's just more depressed so she's drinking more.
Lindsey is wedding dress shopping because Diego has sprung the wedding date on her and she's in a tizz trying to find something perfect in time. The woman is mad marrying him, but until she sees him for who he really is, I guess nothing is going to change there.
And then there is Valentin...and the team investigating his murders. I can't wait to see how that all pans out for the Russian.
A lot of slightly boring stories this time round. But then as I said at the start, it is all building up to the one is Las Vegas. Great. Sin City. Just what I've always wanted. I hope it is better than I anticipate.
Not the strongest in the series but reasonable. First of them all I have rated a 4. Bring on the next!
Next...20 Minutes in Las Vegas
MEET THE AUTHOR:
He has been employed in several glamorous roles in his lifetime, including bartending, shelf stacking and procurement administration, all while based in some of the most exotic places on the planet, like Bolton, Preston and South London.
Daniel writes psychological thrillers and loves to tell tales about unusual things happening to normal people. He has written all his life, making the progression from handing scribbled stories to his parents as a boy to writing full length novels in his thirties. He lives in the North West of England and when he isn’t writing, he is usually watching a game of football in a pub where his wife can’t find him.
Since following his lifelong passion for writing in 2020, he has amassed a loyal and devoted set of readers, and regularly has several books in the top 100 of the Psychological Thriller Charts on Amazon. His title The Passenger became the #1 selling psychological thriller in the UK in October 2021. The Doctor's Wife is his first publication with Bookouture.
A prolific writer, Daniel likes to keep readers on their toes by self publishing even more books in between those released through his publisher.
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