Navigating along life’s crooked line we are naturally touched by the people we meet and most will experience love and death and everything in between. This is a great read for both sexes. A powerful, erotic and thrilling love story with a psychological twist about a man and a woman in their mid forties who meet on an Internet Dating site. He enters her cottage through a purple door, a door he has … has painted from afar and once through he gets why she decided on purple. A memorable night of heightened sexual pleasure ensues, lasagne and tiramisu in between and deep, yes very deep conversations. The attraction quickly transpires into an emotional connection and before too long they each unlock buried memories of past events, memories neither expected to share with someone they had just met. But it’s clear from the onset they need each other; they need to share their stories to move on in life, a ‘Second Chance to Live.’ Was this fortuitous happenstance beginning with a click of a keyboard or destiny found? Love at first sight perhaps, if such a thing really exists, who knows, I shall let you decide but I do warn you; things are not what they seem as we discover more about their chequered past, a past hell bent on revenge.
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*WARNING* contains explicit adult situations
This book is really about 2 people trying to find companionship. One has lost his wife and still mourns, but wants to life again. The other is lonely. Both of these 40 something adults have had rough pasts and have difficulty talking about them because of the emotional pain. Pretty much the whole book is getting to know thus man and this woman. The book starts out well. Then it drags a bit. Then starts to heat up again. This was well written and well edited. These 2 characters have some terrible emotional scars to work through if they want their second chance.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story of a second chance at life and love between two people. The author makes a point to explain why the couple are not given names. I kept waiting for a lack of names to matter to me, yet it never did. The author did a good job of ensuring the reader knows who is speaking as chapters change, without being distractingly obvious. The development of a relationship, the suspense, intrigue and discussion of serendipity made this an exceptional book for me.
Second Chance to Live has a great premise. I was found that the author used character of a mature and respectable age as many of my readings tend to have the leads be in the age range of 16-30. So it did intrigue me that the author chose an older age bracket. I also loved the fact that our characters have no names. Literally our main characters have no name revealed throughout the book. Secondary characters are given names but the main male and female lead are left nameless.
I didn’t feel much of a connection to any character in this book. They all came to be very mundane. I struggled to read this, while the word flowed seamlessly, the plot was very lackluster. Which was very surprising because the opening is very strong and hooked me. I kept pushing through because I was hoping for more, but more never came. While this is marketed as thriller, I found no thrill in my read. Even the action packed scenes or more of the lack of action seemed dimmed down and came off as, well as just very BLAH to me.
The booked moved very slowly in the development of our characters and then escalated quickly within very passionate night in which the dialogue seemed forced and oddly scripted.
And the chequered past which was what I assumed was supposed to be an epic reveal twist, was not as epic of twist.
This book just didn’t do it for me. I wanted to finish it quickly but I also wanted to put it down just as fast. Maybe the book just wasn’t met for me.
The author of this book, Roscoe T. Kearns, reached out to me if I would review his book which was going to be on sale so I told him I would and grabbed the book when it was FREE for his birthday. Great deal on my end. It has taken me some time to finally get to it but I finally did and wow.
So unlike what I usually read this book is written very differently. Not my cup of tea but it works for this story. It’s about two 40+ year old who are going through some life-altering things and like the title says, this is their Second Chance to Live, and they find it through each other. Another interesting thing about this book is that it is written in dual POV but no first names are ever given. You are aware of the male/female POV but the story works in a way that it could be YOU living this life. It totally works and Roscoe did an amazing job.
This is my first book from Roscoe T. Kearns, I am so glad I stumble upon this book. I absolutely loved this book, I could not put this book down. I was drawn in right away! I can honestly say I have never read a book like this, the characters are nameless and the story allows you to just imagine who these two lovers could actually be, it could be your neighbor, your postmaster or heck it could be you on this journey. This authors writing leaves no questions unanswered. Saying that, I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone.