Title: Second Chance (First Comes Love #2)
Author: Katie Kacvinsky
Publication Date: September 7th 2012
Genre: Young Adult
Blurb:
Can two drastically different,
imperfect people be perfect for each other?
It’s been four
months since Gray and Dylan have seen each other. Dylan’s been
traveling in Europe, while Gray has college, baseball, and a life
rooted in one place. Gray’s determined to forget Dylan, the girl he
fell in love with in First Comes Love. Besides, how do you
make a relationship work with an independent loner?
Just when
he decides he’s over her, Dylan makes an unexpected entrance back
into his life, hoping their steamy romance can start right where it
left off. Gray realizes you can tell your mind to do one thing, but
you can’t always convince your heart to follow. Dylan realizes she
finally has to make a choice between freedom and her relationship
with Gray.
Hilarious, intense, inspiring, and emotional,
Second Chance shows that love is a journey, and there are
never clear road signs or maps to guide you along. You can only
navigate with your heart.
Excerpt:
DYLAN
I stretch out on the leather train seat and sip the thick, rich
coffee Europe’s famous for. I open my journal to a blank, white
page. The paper looks like a canvas spread out, waiting for me to
create a painting with words. Lately I’ve been thinking about love
because it charges me and surrounds me and I crave it, follow it,
live for it. Love is the only drug that’s healthy to overdose on.
Which brings me to my random thought for the day:
I think falling in love should come with a warning label:
CAUTION—side effects may include sporadic singing in public
(specifically Celine Dion covers), emotional intoxication, constant
fool grinning, stomach flipping, eye twinkling, heart palpitations,
sweaty hands, jittery feet, lack of sleep, giddiness, deep sighs of
contentment, sexual fantasizing, uncontrollable bouts of happiness,
and the need to help everyone else around you fall in love so they
can experience this blissful state. Do not attempt to operate heavy
machinery under the influence of love, due to lightheadedness and
daydreaming.
I close my journal and take a bite of a chocolate bar that’s cold
from sitting next to the drafty train window. Chocolate has become my
new best friend. It’s sweeter and creamier than chocolate in the
U.S. Each bite is like dressing your mouth in sugary velvet. It’s
almost as good as kiss. Maybe that’s why I crave it—it’s a
dietary supplement for when I’m away from Gray.
I peer out the window into a dark landscape dusted with lights in the
distance, the city of Prague hovering in front of my fingers. I press
my hand against the cold glass and try to connect the dots of the
city skyline. Traveling gives me this natural high, like all my
senses are heightened down to the end of my fingertips. I crave it
like food, as if it’s what propels me forward, what nourishes my
body. Traveling is like leaving one world that’s black and white
and walking into another one drenched in color because everything is
so new it becomes enchanting.
The train starts to slow down as it approaches Prague’s station,
and my feet tap anxiously on the ground. I can’t sit still. Maybe
it’s the air—cold and dense and rich with mystery and texture.
Maybe it’s the sense of this new city I’m about to meet, like a
stranger I want to get to know. Maybe it’s the third cup of coffee
I’ve had in the last hour.
It’s amazing to think where adventure can lead when you trust your
crazy ideas, when you’re bold enough to look at only what lies
ahead of you. I don’t want the normal life. I don’t want to go to
college because it’s the next practical step, just to join the
pack, just to follow a leader. I don’t want to sit inside a room
under fluorescent lights and study and read and memorize other
people’s ideas about the world. I want to form my own ideas. I want
to experience the world with my own eyes.
I’m not going to follow my old friends to avoid the effort of
making new ones. I don’t want to settle for any job just to get a
paycheck, just to pay rent, just to need furniture and cable and more
bills and be tied down with routine and monotony. I don’t want to
own things because they’ll eventually start to own me.
Most importantly, I don’t want to be told who I am or who I should
be. I want to find myself—the bits and pieces that are scattered in
places and in people waiting to meet me. If I fall down, I’ll learn
how to pick myself up again. You need to fall apart once in a while
before you understand how you best fit together.
Few people understand what to make of me.
Except for one.
The more people I meet, the more I’m realizing how rare it is to
find someone who lets you be yourself. Who never tries to hold you
back, but watches you ride out the wave of intensity and see where it
takes you. Gray never held me back. He was like a drug. He lit me up
like a catalyst, and I can’t go a day without thinking about him.
Half of my journal entries are addressed to him. I take most of my
pictures just so I can show him the places I’ve been. I’ve never
missed anyone before. I try not to dwell on past memories; instead I
focus on making new ones. But now I realize that distance is like a
test. If you miss someone, it means you love him. It’s that simple.
I can’t wait to see him again and tell him our story is just
beginning.
Growing.
Destined for happily ever after.
I lean my forehead against the cool train window and watch the city
lights blink
past me in the dark sky. My shoulders rock forward as the train
grinds and brakes to a stop.
I stretch my sore legs and roll my luggage into a filthy train
station, but I’m filthy too, so I can’t complain. I grin at the
atmosphere around me, the clattering sounds of languages I can’t
understand, the bustle of passengers, people moving along with me
like we’re all just cells, pushing our way together through a giant
artery. I love meeting a city for the first time at night and seeing
it dressed up with lights. It gives me time to imagine the rest of it
before it greets me in daylight.
I head towards the street entrance, hail a cab, and find myself on a
cobblestone street in front of the Czech Inn Hostel. Even though we
meet for the first time and I’m thousands of miles from anyone I
know, I feel like I’m home.
Ten
reasons You MUST READ SECOND
CHANCE:
1. It’s
a slow burn romance of the most delicious kind.
2. Gray
is HOT. He plays college baseball and the
guitar and he’s
smart. Blue eyes and black hair? Yummy.
3. Dylan
is a photographer/dreamer and is so inspiring. She is the exact
opposite of Gray, yet, they fit perfectly together.
4. Hot
and heavy make out scenes (not to the E.L. James extreme, sorry,)
5. This
book is quotable. From page one.
6. It
currently costs $3.99 (same as a vanilla latte if you need a point of
reference)
7. It’s
written in opposite POV’s
8. You
can read this book as a standalone (although it will make you want to
read First
Comes Love,
to understand how Dylan and Gray met).
9. A
fun crew of supporting characters adds just the right amount of
humor, sexual tension, and perspective.
10. You’ll
crave more.
~Katie
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