Perhaps sometimes in life, an impossible situation required an unthinkable solution.
It’s the Me-Too Movement and Revenge all in one. What if you could make someone disappear for good? Someone you detested, who is holding back your career and harassing you at every opportunity that presents itself. Would you do it?
Sarah is in a very bad situation that quickly goes from awful to terrible to horrendous. She’s stuck in a hole that keeps getting larger and larger. She can’t tell anyone or else there will be life and death repercussions. How can she get herself out of this mess before her life is completely ruined?
The sense of powerlessness was overwhelming. A plunging black hole that pulled her deeper and deeper. One she knew she could never escape.
29 Seconds is a roller-coaster ride filled with suspense, fear and tragedy. All Sarah ever wanted was a permanent teaching position instead of being on contract. She has worked so hard and took on more responsibility to help make it happen. But her boss, Alan Hawthorne, is a vindictive S.O.B. who ties her advancement up the ladder to sexual favors he demands from her, as a show of her commitment to her job.
Inside she was screaming, raging, half-blinded with anger and frustration and the sheer bloody injustice of it all. All of the work she had put in, all of the hours, all the nights she’d worked past midnight until she was nodding off over the laptop. All of the days punch-drunk with fatigue, pushing on and keeping going regardless. None of it seemed to matter. None of it would make a difference.
I could not put this book down. The suspense kept me turning the pages as fast as I could. The reader cannot help but root for Sarah and despise Hawthorne. He is the worst of the worst, refusing to accept no for an answer and raising the stakes higher and higher. To put it simply, Hawthorne is disgusting and despicable!
Every time you thought he’d hit rock bottom, he always found a way of stooping even lower.
The twists were great and I did not see them coming. All along, Sarah is the victim and yet she makes him into one! The pacing was perfect as was the character development. T. M. Logan has done it again! Lies was a great book but 29 Seconds is equally great or maybe greater. The topical nature of 29 Seconds makes it a particularly satisfying read that I would highly recommend.
