“Second Chance Rescue” by J Marie (review)

“The plan was simple. The results are anything but…
I’ve lost too much to even think about opening my heart to anyone again. Grief consumed my life, and all I wanted was to be left alone so I could drown my sorrows while trying to find a sliver of relief at the bottom of a bottle.
But my father saw right through me, throwing me a curveball I never saw coming. Go back to working at our family’s law firm, or take a wife. If I don’t, I can kiss my inheritance goodbye.
Luckily, I have another card up my sleeve—and her name is Macy. She’s shy, sweet, with curves in all the right places. She’s also the perfect solution to my problem if I can convince her that what I’m proposing will end up benefiting us both.
It’s easy. She needs money, and I need a wife. It’s a win-win situation.
The way I see it, it’s just another business transaction. No commitment. No strings. Zero complications.
What could possibly go wrong?”

I was extremely pleased when the author J. Marie offered to send me the book in electronic format to read it and to tell her my honest opinion. When it comes to books in electronic format, I am a little skeptical, because I have the feeling that the story isn’t as intense as when I read a physical book. But this time, I was entirely wrong.

“Second Chance Rescue” managed to make me love it from the first page, and I fell for Macy instantly. A strong woman, determined to become someone, to assert herself, to stand on her own feet, a person who has not been without suffering and who has the best friend in the world, Mia (a madwoman I have loved 😊). When Trevor appeared in the frame, my heart started beating even harder. I was already writting my own scenarios and seeing everything in advance. This man locked in him, who refuses to give his heart, unwilling to experience love. He was not spared from suffering either, and this made him the person he is now. Macy and Trevor seemed to be on the opposite poles, two totally different people … she is warm and sensitive, he is cold and kind of a Grinch, but who loves animals with all of his heart.

But what do you do when you’re facing an ultimatum? You are trying to find the best solution, although everything starts out from a joke … what to think then? Do you still treat it as a joke, or go along with what it implies ? If I think about it for a bit, the most beautiful love stories started out from a joke, little fun has done no harm, but when feelings are involved, things change.

I confess that I was totally captivated by the story of these two and I was enveloped by their experiences. I couldn’t let the Kinde out of my hand until the end, in the last few chapters, because I was falling asleep and the book was getting more intense, I wanted to feel it to its full potential. Being in electronic format, I expected it would be difficult for me to go through it, but I was surprised when I took a look at the chapters and I was getting closer to the end, the writing style is so easy and sometimes very funny, it actually breaks you from reality and determines you to want to find out more and more.

As much as I laughed in the first part of the book, that much I cried in the last chapters. There were passages full of emotions, some of them touched me deeply, they even managed to teleport me into my past and to feel their pain to the maximum capacity, my soul was broken in pieces.

“Second Chance Rescue” presents a story about the second chance at love, it teaches you that although you have suffered, it is worth risking and fighting for what you want, even if you do not have the guarantee of winning, how to become strong, to overcome your fears and to give yourself completely, regardless of the result… how to save yourself 😊.

“Love. It’s a basic want. Something everyone craves in one way or another, even if they never admit it out loud. As humans, we need it. Desire it. Fight it. Hate ourselves for it. Lose it. Consume it. Repeatedly fall for it. The heart wants what it wants and no matter how hard we fight it, love wins every time.”

“ ‘I’m completely fine using my vibrating friend, Mr. Dildo Daggins.” “Wait, hold on. You call your vibrator… Dildo Daggins?” I giggle, “Yes, what do you call yours?” “Which one?” “You have more than one?” “Yep, there’s Enrique, Sebastian, Alonso, Diego, Miguel, Mario, and Lorenzo.” My eyes bulge out of my head. “Why so many?” “I like a different Latin lover every day of the week. Gotta spice it up.” I shake my head and laugh.

“I don’t date. Dating leads to things like love, and I’ve sworn that off. Things like love tend to make people think about things like fate. Fate is not a friend. Fate is an evil bitch.”

“Losing someone changes you. Those little tiny pieces of your heart that were once beating strong and fierce are now just fragments of the pieces left behind from your loss. Never to fully beat as one again. Losing someone close to you is one of the most emotional things that can even happen to a person. I understand the loss, the pain. The agonizing feeling in your gut that feels like your insides have been peeled open and your guts are lying on the floor.”

“Alcohol is such a funny thing. It’s your best friend on your worst days and your enemy on the best days. A pit in my brain opens and downloads truth bites. The horrible dinner, the alcohol, the truths, the feelings, the pain, the memories.”

“Love is kind and patient. Constant. Never ebbing or flowing too much. It’s comfortable sweatpants and messy hair. It’s knowing that you’ve found another imperfect person who’s perfect for you. It’s like the perfect bubble bath. Never scalding or freezing with the right amount of bubbles. But it’s also fierce. You have to love hard. You have to give them the good with the bad. You have to lean on one another. Love makes you a better person. It makes you crave being a better person. You know it’s love when you’re comfortable just being you. Feeling seen and understood. Knowing that the other person holds your deepest, darkest secrets, and accepts them fully without judging you. It’s acceptance. Love isn’t butterflies and weak knees. It’s tough and it takes work. Romances fizzle at the first sign of trouble, but love fights to the fucking death. Love takes a bullet for someone. Love goes to war at the slightest offense from another, knowing the reason is completely justified. Love lasts forever, beyond the grave.”