Review: Why I love Second Chance Love Stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
Nikki Prince won my heart with this book. For such heavy topics like PTSD, child abuse, and mental deterioration this book is an amazing light read. I love the characters Cruz Montoya is a strong man but suffers from night terrors since childhood and PTSD but he is working hard to try and make himself better. Roxie Waters is in limbo working for the family business as manager for the Motel her father started. Still living with her Mother who suffers from dementia and her mother's best friend and nurse, Kathy, Roxie puts up with her mother's hateful words and constantly tells her that it should have been her to die instead of her older sister, and that it was her fault that her Father left.Cruz Montoya was arrested and sent to Juvenile Hall and that was the last time Roxie saw the boy who stole her heart. She hadn't seen or heard from him the whole time until he shows up at her motel. He still looked good, and made her heart pitter patter and skip a beat. Cruz suffered from child abuse and the night before he was arrested he had beat up his father finally had enough with the continual beating from his functional alcoholic father. After serving his time Cruz joined the military and served his time there. Now with a honorable discharge he is back to his home town and the only reason he came back was for Roxie, who has never left his thoughts. Thoughts of her helped keep him sane helped put him to sleep when the anxiety attacks kept him awake or when the night terrors woke him most nights.The attraction is still their Cruz wants to go slow to give them both time to get to know each other again and give him time to reveal everything about his past and what happened to Roxie. Cruz soon realizes that he's not the only one who needs to reveal the struggles of the past. Roxie has kept the guilt of her sister's suicide close to her, putting up with her mother's hateful attitude out of a sense of familial loyalty. Cruz has a hard time dealing with Roxie keeping their relationship a secret from her mother, but understand her need for time especially with the anniversary of her sister's death approaching.Roxie has kept her sister's diary in a lockbox to afraid to read the secrets of her sisters life, but being with Cruz gives her the courage to read it. She soon realizes that their is more to her sisters suicide then she ever thought. Can Cruz and Roxie deal with their own insecurities and move on and have their HEA?Cruz just makes you want to hug him and love him, and Roxie is so strong but doesn't realize it until she finally lets go of her guilt. This book is a prime example why I love second chance love stories.