Review: Second Chance, No Connection
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
Ok... here's the thing.  I'm going to do my best not to include any spoilers, but I'm definitely going to be referencing some stuff that happens later in the book because I could see where things were headed by the time I was halfway through the book.For the first third of the book we have this AWESOME chemistry between Rori and Jude and then I get to cheer for her because she refuses to be treated like a piece of meat, the way Jude normally treats his women.  Seriously, what's with these other chicks that they're totally okay jumping him that afternoon and then seeing him out on a date with Rori that evening and then go so far as to proposition him in front of her?  Although at least that gave Rori the heads up that no matter how hot Jude is in bed, she deserves a better MAN outside of it.Enter Zach... hurrah!  Rori's biggest sexy time connection with Jude was that she discovered she's submissive and she was really turned on by his dominant side.  Zach is yet another sexy dominant who is smitten with Rori, but Zach has no problem being an amazing, romancing relationship guy.  I totally started to fall for him and then I remembered that this book is called "Second Chances" and that the blurb mostly talks about Jude.At which point I start going oh eff no, because Zach is too possessive for this to be a sharing book.Suffice to say, figuring out halfway through the book exactly how Jude was going to be positioned to get a second chance, and then having his second chance with Rori being RUSHED through the last third of the book, I did not come away satisfied.  There's not enough time spent on Jude's reformation and there's not enough connection between him and Rori to satisfy me.  I felt the strongest connection with Zach and yet we already know before reading that that relationship isn't ultimately going anywhere, which makes it really hard to get invested in it.By the time I got to the last third of the book I was really emotionally detached from everything that was going on because I couldn't connect with Zach anymore and I didn't want to connect again with Jude, who had been such an a$$ throughout 2/3 of the book.Dane's written much better stuff.  Honestly, I can't recommend this one.  I'd try one of her other titles unless you've already bought everything else she has to offer and absolutely MUST read every single thing she's ever written.