Review: *4.5 Stars <3*
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
Second Chance Summer is a sweet love story about second chances... Kia James and Reese pembleton are a young couple who fall into a summer of young love and bliss, until Kia decides that leaving her home town for something better is her only option... Reese is left confused and heartbroken, and when Kia returns a year later, for the summer, his feelings for her haven't changed.Being back home, Kia realizes that it wasn't Reese that she was running from a year ago - it was her fear that her parents history would somehow become her future. Seeing Reese after all the time that has passed reignited the feelings she spent a year repressing and when spending time with him is inevitable, she finds herself reliving the magical summer that brought them together. This time, Kia won't allow the mistakes her parents made to come between her and Reese and she finally accepts that the only way to prevent that is with Reese at her side.I feel like Emma Hart went in a slightly different direction with Second Chance Summer than with Playing For Keeps. While what Kia went through with her parents was challenging, it wasn't the kind of situation that pulled at your heart strings. Instead, it was the swoonworthiness of her relationship with Reese that keeps you reading. Their best friends, Adam and Luce, provided much entertainment throughout the book and left me hoping that they too will get a book. This was a very light read, but suits the New Adult genre perfectly and described the experience of two young teens that experience a summer of firsts rather accurately. There's a cliffy at the end of the book, but not a relationship cliffy and I hope we'll get to read more from Reese's POV in the next instalment.I enjoyed this book, as I do all of Emma's books, and as always, look forward to what she will come up with next!