Winter of Second Chances by Eliza Boyd

From Goodreads:

Chastity and Chase were high school sweethearts.
Then their marriage crumbled under pressure and Chase left town.
Now that he's engaged again, he returns to True Love with one mission: To finally get a divorce.
But True Love will make sure they get a second chance.

My Take:
This was a cute story about a town with mystical powers that just wouldn't give up on two people when they'd given up on themselves. I enjoyed it and actually read it all in one day. There were a few typos, but that could be because I had an advanced reader copy. Hopefully, they will be fixed once the book is released on February 28th (just 2 days!) on Amazon.

Okay, let's dig in. What I liked about this book:
Ten years have gone by, but Chastity has moved on with her life. Mostly. She's bought her own business and is doing her best to make it succeed. It's a struggle, and she hasn't written that book yet, and she isn't dating, but she doesn't seem to be wallowing in missing Chase. It's obvious she was heartbroken and still thinks of him, but she didn't quit her life. She continued to grow and move on the best she could. When Chase shows back up she's sucker-punched with the surprises that come one after another. I won't tell you so as to avoid the spoilers.

The second thing that I like was that when the time came for Chase to cut the ties with Jessica (his fiance before returning to True Love) it went well. Although she sounds and looks likes she's going to be one of those women, she's not. I appreciated that Boyd didn't completely follow that trope.

I loved that it didn't just fall into place as soon as Chase said goodbye to Jessica. Marjorie is one smart woman! A little bit of time to calm down and think was needed, even if it felt like the end of the world all around. Okay, that is close to being a spoiler.

Here's the nitpicks:
I got tired of all the "I'm feeling something/thinking something that I don't want to right now, so I just won't feel/think it." Several times I just wanted to say, sit down and figure it out already! You know what you want, you know what's going on, just face up to it and own it.

And Chastity was WAY too nice. It all makes sense because that's her personality. However, she only blew up and yelled at him once. I felt she deserved a little more than that, but what we got was satisfying.

I give Winter of Second Chances by Eliza Boyd a solid 4 with a Clean rating.

1-5 scale and what it means:

1: I couldn’t even finish it / just plain bad

2: I hope I didn’t pay for this / disappointing

3: I didn’t hate it, but it was still missing something / forgettable but inoffensive

3.5: On the line between good and ok / like, not love

4: Solid mind candy / worth reading

4.5: So very close to perfection! / must read

5: I could not put it down and I’m still thinking about it! / a true treasure

Movie Ratings in relation to my review:

Clean--Hallmark movies, some kissing, no nudity, no sex on or off "screen"

PG--Some innuendo but nothing kids don't hear every day, sex is all closed door

PG-13--some language (swear words not related to sex), more talk about sex, heavy petting, removal of clothing on screen, but sex is closed door.

PG-14—somewhere between PG-13 and R. Not erotica, but at least a paragraph of on-screen sex

R--swearing (F-bomb, on “screen” sex, sometimes feels like the whole story is about the sex and not the relationship or some other plot, but not always