Five years ago Taylor Edwards made a mistake that cost her the friends she had made at her family’s summer home in Phoenix Lake. Now she is forced to return after her father receives terrible news in order for her siblings and mother to spend one more summer with him. Soon Tayler discovers that this is a summer filled with both second chances and new experiences.
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson is a fantastic novel filled with interesting and dynamic characters, and several heartbreaking scenes. Just a quick warning, this novel is a romance that involves cancer. Because of this it is clearly going to be a sad book for at least the end. The tears start very close to the start of the novel so if you tend to get emotional reading books either don’t read this one or don’t read it in public. It is very possible that this will be a very difficult novel for you to read because of its subject matter.
One thing I noticed when reading Second Chance Summer was the tendency for Taylor to go on tangents. Granted these tangents do relate to what’s going on and they also show the reader what going on in a not so subtle way, but I found that I would get lost halfway through one of these tangents and forget the main, present event in the scene.
All in all this is a vry good novel to read if you have a few hours and it doesn’t matter of your eyes are stained with tears afterwards. Second Chance Summer is a well written novel. I recommend it to anyone who likes this type of book.
Final Rating – 40/50
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