Review: The sweetness of having a second chance...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
Once again Emma Hart has given me a cast of characters that I am sure to love more and more throughout this series. This is book one of the Chance series with book two currently scheduled for a Spring 2014 release. Even though this is the first book of the series, there is no cliff hanger, just an obvious indication that there will be a second book.Kia James has come back to the small town she grew up in, the town that hold some of her most treasured memories, as well as the ones that caused her to run out of there in the first place. She deals with the pain in her heart from leaving Reese, and the second chance that he so very much wants her to give them. Kia doesn't feel like she deserves a second chance, she left. Why is Reese so willing to give her another chance to break his heart? Why does he find her worthy of a second chance that she doesn't believe she deserves?She may have been better at hiding it but her ability to ignore him doesn't last for long. We get the story of them reconnecting and finding out that second chances are sometimes the best. If you let something go and it comes back, you know that it is meant to be yours. It would be easy if Kia could just forget everything and not have the weight of her mother's drinking and her father walking out on them on her mind as well. This town is like a constant reminder of everything that can go wrong in life and all the pain that it can cause. While she gives her and Reese a second chance she is still guarded, she expects Reese to give-up on her and walk away.Reese Pembleton is a freaking sweetheart if I ever did meet one and Kia James is the only girl for him. He proves this on multiple occasions. He is also the only one who understands Kia more that she understands herself. She has so much more than her and Reese that she ends up dealing with on her summer back home from college but Reese is there to help her through it, which only proves to Kia just how much she needs Reese in her life.I really enjoyed this book, we get to know Reese and Kia well and understand everything that they went through the summer before as well as getting some things figured out for Kia in her family. However, it is clear that their story is far from over and I have a feeling that book 2 is going to have me a little on edge. This book was a great set up for what is to come next, I liked it, but it was mellow. There is a certain someone who shows up only a couple times in book one that seems to think she has some sort of claim on Reese. While she was a very small player in this book I have a feeling she is going to be showing us some of her crazy in the next now. Or I am completely wrong, I really have no idea, but either way I am looking forward to getting more of Reese and Kia next year.