5 Second-Chance Romances I Can’t Forget
Alright – let’s put it this way: I am a sucker for second chance romance trope in books.
Maybe it’s because I had gone through second-chance romance as well, I don’t know, but I love it. I devour it. If it has the trope, it’s automatic 3 stars for me and I haven’t even read the first word yet. There’s something about rekindling old romances that just speaks to me on a deeper level. Sure, sure, it ends because they had issues they couldn’t get past (whatever that might be), but it was just wrong timing, okay? The right timing will come.
These are five second-chance romance books that live rent free in my mind since the day I read them.
Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren
I am the type of readers who will forgive a lot of faults in books if it has moments that leave me feeling a lot of feels. This book is exactly it for me. No spoilers here but there is an element in this book that should have been elaborated and discussed more (do check the trigger warning before reading any books).
This book is about teenage friends to lovers to a decade of separation to meeting again, unplanned and I ate this up like it was my dinner. I am a sucker for this book as do a million other people who have read this book. I wish I could read this book for the first time again.
The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce
My, my, my.
This was the first book I read from Jessica Joyce and I was an instant fan. They were lovers to a five-year separation to close proximity due to a mutual friend’s wedding. One quote that I still remember from this book is “When I say I’m still in love with you, I mean the first time I saw you and right now. I mean every second in between.”
SCREAMING CRYING AND THROWING UP. I remember falling head over heels for Eli (the MMC) because oh the pent-up yearning was just chef’s kiss.
Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
I want me a tattooed man with a flower shop and a florist himself. Yup.
This book centres around the wedding industry with a lot of talk about weddings so if it’s not your cuppa tea you might not enjoy it. It’s about lovers to a two-year of separation to workplace/close proximity due to them working on the same client’s wedding.
This was an enjoyable read and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a fast-paced read with a grumpy, swoon worthy MMC who knows his flowers.
The Two of Us by Taylor Torres
This book is irrevocably underrated.
I finished it in a day, and by then I have already cried a bucket. The slow burn, the angst – the last 30 pages ruined me for good. I think this is the only second-chance book that made me cry and it was truly for the right reason. It was sad. This is a sad book (albeit a happy ending one), and I do wish for people to check the trigger warning.
I couldn’t put it down, to be honest. This is a best friend’s brother to lovers to a seven-year separation to coming back home to your small-town hometown.
Happy Place by Emily Henry
This is by far my favourite Emily Henry book and I seriously believe it’s because of the trope itself. I know a lot of readers rated this way below her other more famous books and I get it. Her other books like Book Lovers and Beach Read conform more to the masses and this book is honestly an acquired taste. Taste that I obviously have.
It’s about friends to a down-low break up to close proximity due to being in the same circle of friends who spend summer together. I can imagine Nicholas Galitzine playing the MMC as he fits the character really well. Obviously the cast hasn’t been announced yet but fingers crossed!
If you have recommendations similar to these books, do send them my way! I am currently on a reading slump after Onyx Storm and finishing a book feels like a chore for me nowadays.
