Review: Their Second Chance Love



Their Second Chance Love by Kat Brookes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Warning: Spoilers ahead, if that bothers you.

This is the only Christian Romance novel I've ever made it all the way through, so I think Kat Brookes deserves a lot of credit for writing an engaging story. I liked the characters in the story, especially the hero, Logan, and I was happy that things worked out. I'd love to read the other novels in the series in any case.

However, I did think this particular story could have been improved. Logan and Hope were a couple when they were teenagers and they had been planning to get married, but Hope dumped Logan when she found out from her doctor that she was infertile and would never be able to give Logan the many children he'd always wanted. Instead of telling him this, Hope lied and said she didn't love him when she ended things.

Fast forward nine years later. Hope's father's health problems end up throwing Logan and Hope together. They're both still in love with each other, but she is still determined not to tell him the truth about why she dumped him, ostensibly for his own good. This was frustrating. It was one thing for her to have dumped him as a teenager, but I thought that as a grown woman in her late twenties it should have dawned on her that she had been wrong to lie and to hide the truth from him. He had a right to know why she'd dumped him. She owed him the truth and an apology.

Instead, she holds on to her conviction until the bitter end that she simply can't tell him the truth. Logan only finds out because he overhears her explaining why she dumped Logan to her father. I was glad things worked out, but I would have found the story more compelling if she had realized the error of her ways, apologized, and tried to make things right. It would have been so much more satisfying if she'd decided to tell Logan the truth, and I would have liked her more for it.

Still, all in all, it was a nice read and Kat Brookes got me to care about the characters and their lives. I think it's worth a read if you like sweet romances, and I would like to check out Kat Brookes other novels.

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