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Their Second Chance Love
A Lone Star Reunion
Hope Dillan thought she'd left the town of Braxton behind her--right along with the man she abandoned. But when her father falls ill, Hope anxiously flies home and finds former love Logan Cooper right where she left him. Being around Logan again feels like old times. The spark between them remains, but so does the secret that forced Hope to end things--one she knows will always keep them apart. When her father's condition worsens, Hope feels the weight of everything she might lose. But how can she come clean to Logan without closing the door on their happily-ever-after again?
Hope Dillan thought she'd left the town of Braxton behind her--right along with the man she abandoned. But when her father falls ill, Hope anxiously flies home and finds former love Logan Cooper right where she left him. Being around Logan again feels like old times. The spark between them remains, but so does the secret that forced Hope to end things--one she knows will always keep them apart. When her father's condition worsens, Hope feels the weight of everything she might lose. But how can she come clean to Logan without closing the door on their happily-ever-after again?
- GenresLove InspiredHarlequin
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published March 21, 2017
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Kat Brookes
37 books19 followersAward-winning romance author Kat Brookes is a 4-time RWA Golden Heart finalist, American Title III finalist, Winner of both the National Readers’ Choice Award and Harlequin's Great American Romance Novel contests. She has written for Amazon Publishing, Kensington Publishing, Harlequin and Harpeth Road Press. She's married to her childhood sweetheart, her hero, with whom she has two beautiful daughters.
Check out Kat's website: www.katbrookes.com
Check out Kat's website: www.katbrookes.com
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May 8, 2018
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.
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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November 25, 2022
It's a shame. The series started out SO cute. My daughter is reading book #1, now... and she's loving it. Laughing out loud on the sofa. Sighing happily, while I was all struggle-bussing to try to even get THROUGH this one.
This is not sweet. It's not endearing. It's not inspirational. It's not even romance. It's just stupidly inflicted pain and angst and unhappiness. It's a miserable slog, and even has SIDE miserable slog themes to enhance the level of woe.
Logan Cooper loved Hope Dillan since high school. He worked at her daddy's greenhouse (which interestingly has TONS of flowers and trees, but nary a vegetable to be seen) with her. He took her to dances... planned to marry her and have a passel of children.
But then Hope finds out she has endometriosis (like her mammy), and can't have kids. She finds this out in HIGH SCHOOL, while she's underaged, and yet her sole parent - her father - who IS HER GUARDIAN AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDER doesn't know this??? Seriously?????? No. That's not how it worked 2008 (nine years before the book is set). Parents were - shocker! - informed of diagnosis of their children. So the WHOLE THING is just stupid.
More, when Hope finds out she can't have kids, adoption/fostering doesn't even cross her mind. No, she goes whole-hog *D.R.A.M.A* and not only lies to Logan ("I don't love you"), but tosses God out ("He did this to me!!"), tosses her Daddy out ("My life is elsewhere, now"), takes off for San Diego and refuses to come home because she might see Logan. She craps all over her best friends, lives a miserable and lonely life...
...which is RIDICULOUS!!! First, you do realize that San Diego is home of something like 10,000 single Navy men, right? Coronado is enormous, and the amount of single, available, patriotic, upright guys out there is staggering. There's NO WAY she spends *nine years* in San Diego single and brooding in her apartment. It's pitiful.
Second, there's NO WAY Logan stayed single and pining over a girl who 1) crushed his heart, 2) refuses to see him OR anyone who is in any way connected to him - INCLUDING HER FATHER - and 3) lives not only in another part of the country, but has chosen an *entirely* different lifestyle. That's NOT Logan, the happy-go-lucky, flirty brother who goes out with everyone in town. No. Just no.
The author really peeved me when she insisted that Alyssa was the 'guiding light' that 'led' Nathan back to his faith, too. No. Absolutely not - the Holy Spirit guides people back to the Lord. The faith in this one is abysmal.
The writing isn't much better. On pg 72 she has papers in her hands as she leaves the office, on pg 73 she "holds up empty hands" as she reaches the out-of-doors, and on pg 74 suddenly the pages are BACK in her hands, again. ((((((sigh.)))))) LI books are pitifully without good editors.
The WHOLE THING could've been avoided if Hope (or her daddy, who would've known in reality world) had told Logan she was barren, and got it over with. Instead, we have page after page, chapter after chapter of bitterness and regret and sorrow and angst and pain, and... GAHH!!!
More, her bestie's sister got knocked up by a rodeo guy in some other state, and Bestie has to close up her realty business to go and help her sister take care of 'Blue Belle'. The kid. Not. Kidding. Bluebell. (((groans))) Because why just have angst when you can have SIDE angst, too?
Then there's the Daddy's romance, which consists of a man NOT being a gentleman and NOT being sweet/kind to the woman he likes. Which... is... supposed to be 'comical', I take it? It wasn't. He's not a great guy. It wasn't cute.
It's too bad, because book #1 was so sweet and charming and funny. Book #2 was nice and okay. But it's like it was a slide from something good to something not-at-all good, by the time the series was over. And that's a shame.
This is not sweet. It's not endearing. It's not inspirational. It's not even romance. It's just stupidly inflicted pain and angst and unhappiness. It's a miserable slog, and even has SIDE miserable slog themes to enhance the level of woe.
Logan Cooper loved Hope Dillan since high school. He worked at her daddy's greenhouse (which interestingly has TONS of flowers and trees, but nary a vegetable to be seen) with her. He took her to dances... planned to marry her and have a passel of children.
But then Hope finds out she has endometriosis (like her mammy), and can't have kids. She finds this out in HIGH SCHOOL, while she's underaged, and yet her sole parent - her father - who IS HER GUARDIAN AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDER doesn't know this??? Seriously?????? No. That's not how it worked 2008 (nine years before the book is set). Parents were - shocker! - informed of diagnosis of their children. So the WHOLE THING is just stupid.
More, when Hope finds out she can't have kids, adoption/fostering doesn't even cross her mind. No, she goes whole-hog *D.R.A.M.A* and not only lies to Logan ("I don't love you"), but tosses God out ("He did this to me!!"), tosses her Daddy out ("My life is elsewhere, now"), takes off for San Diego and refuses to come home because she might see Logan. She craps all over her best friends, lives a miserable and lonely life...
...which is RIDICULOUS!!! First, you do realize that San Diego is home of something like 10,000 single Navy men, right? Coronado is enormous, and the amount of single, available, patriotic, upright guys out there is staggering. There's NO WAY she spends *nine years* in San Diego single and brooding in her apartment. It's pitiful.
Second, there's NO WAY Logan stayed single and pining over a girl who 1) crushed his heart, 2) refuses to see him OR anyone who is in any way connected to him - INCLUDING HER FATHER - and 3) lives not only in another part of the country, but has chosen an *entirely* different lifestyle. That's NOT Logan, the happy-go-lucky, flirty brother who goes out with everyone in town. No. Just no.
The author really peeved me when she insisted that Alyssa was the 'guiding light' that 'led' Nathan back to his faith, too. No. Absolutely not - the Holy Spirit guides people back to the Lord. The faith in this one is abysmal.
The writing isn't much better. On pg 72 she has papers in her hands as she leaves the office, on pg 73 she "holds up empty hands" as she reaches the out-of-doors, and on pg 74 suddenly the pages are BACK in her hands, again. ((((((sigh.)))))) LI books are pitifully without good editors.
The WHOLE THING could've been avoided if Hope (or her daddy, who would've known in reality world) had told Logan she was barren, and got it over with. Instead, we have page after page, chapter after chapter of bitterness and regret and sorrow and angst and pain, and... GAHH!!!
More, her bestie's sister got knocked up by a rodeo guy in some other state, and Bestie has to close up her realty business to go and help her sister take care of 'Blue Belle'. The kid. Not. Kidding. Bluebell. (((groans))) Because why just have angst when you can have SIDE angst, too?
Then there's the Daddy's romance, which consists of a man NOT being a gentleman and NOT being sweet/kind to the woman he likes. Which... is... supposed to be 'comical', I take it? It wasn't. He's not a great guy. It wasn't cute.
It's too bad, because book #1 was so sweet and charming and funny. Book #2 was nice and okay. But it's like it was a slide from something good to something not-at-all good, by the time the series was over. And that's a shame.
March 18, 2017
Their Second Chance Love is the last book in The Texas Sweethearts Series by Kat Brookes. I have enjoyed all three books. This is the younger brother, Logan cooper who owns a landscaping company. He gets his trees and plants from Jack Dillan who owns a Nursery. Jack has a stroke. Logan finds him and calls 911. Logan calls Jack's daughter Hope Dillan to let her know. Jack and Hope were an item over nine years ago. Hope left because she found out she couldn't have any children. Hope knew Logan wanted children. She told Logan she didn't love him. Logan never stopped loving Hope. The story covers Logan and Hope dealing with the situation. Hopes dad. Logans two brothers and their family. A very good series.
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