Nope. I wanted to like it, but I think I ruined it after my DNF of "Becoming Calder" - the previous book in the series. I have a feeling if I read it BEFORE or read the books farther apart - then I would have finished it (though I would probably still not rate it very high). There are too many similar themes in the series. The small isolated place, the two young kindred spirits who can't be together or are separated for a few years before they re-meet. Naturally we've all read it all anyhow, but when you read a series that more than half of the books have somehow the same setting it's a bit too much. I LOVED both "Stinger" and "Archer's Voice" I truly feel these two were excellent on their own and as a part of the series (being more original than the others..) but also, they are true to the genre they represent - both are New Adult towards Contemporary Romance. The rest, especially this one, are more on the Young Adult towards the New Adult which isn't really what I bargained for..
I can't, I just can't continue reading this book.. I usually give a book more time than I gave this one - 13% - yet the whole setting just put me off and I don't think it will change enough for me to keep on reading it..
I didn't know what to expect from this one, I'm guilty of not even reading the blurb.. it's just that I wanted to read more by Mia and this one has SUCH a high rating on GR.. The writing WAS great, and the way the story was told and the characters introduced as well as the world building itself was beautifully done and yet..
This one was really sweet. It's the unlikely love story between the driven law student and plan obsessed Grace Hamilton and the porn performer Carson Stinger who doesn't think more than a day in advance. They meet for the first time in Vegas attending a (different!) convention taking place in the same Hotel. After a somewhat rough start they decide to spend the weekend together - no strings attached. It's not what Grace would have thought she is capable of, yet with Carson it worked, they got closer to one another even if initially it was about the sex it became a lot more than that. They had a HUGE impact on one another yet when the weekend was over they each returned to their lives - the same yet different.
Leo's Chance is basically the previous book - Leo - told from Leo's POV instead of Evie. While I was interested in hearing his voice and what he went through, I didn't find his side of the story "different" enough to justify a whole book. Especially since most of the book is a re-play of the previous one with just glimpses of the time he was in the hospital after the accident and his talks with the psychologist. The best parts in the book, in my opinion, where the last hour or so, were there are NEW details that we didn't hear about, not even in the previous Epilogue. Also the Epilogue in this one wasn't the same, it had a different time line and told from Evie's POV which I MUCH prefer.
This is the first installment in the series as well as Mia's debut novel. I really enjoyed it though it did drag a bit for me which is kind of surprising considering this novel is less than 200 pages. I felt it took too long for the truth to be revealed and the interaction between them was strange at times (though it was mostly explained in the end). But let's start at the beginning..
Evie and Leo met for the first time at a foster home. Both being taken from their family due to neglect and abuse. Both feeling like discarded junk with no real parental figures around them they find compassion, warmth and strength in one another. They spend 5 years as close as they can to one another but their promise to always stay together is being strongly challenged when Leo is adopted at the age of 15. He still promises to keep in touch, even though he will be moving far away, he also vows to come back for her when she is 18 and they can legally be together. Yet promises aside and real life at the other.. After their first kiss on the roof top at the home she is currently staying in - Evie never hears from Leo again..
I enjoyed this book SO MUCH. It was a lot more than I expected. While I WAS expecting a heart breaking story about an isolated man and the woman who brought him out of his loneliness - which was clearly written on the book synopsis! - I wasn't ready for the man - for Archer - the special, smart, funny, courageous, sexy, sweet, drool worthy and yeah, damaged pretty badly man.. having left with no voice, not only in the physical sense - not being able to speak - but also in the metaphorical sense - as he doesn't think he has the right to be, to think and express himself. Bree is also a beautiful person. A woman who sees a lot more than the physical (though she doesn't miss his attraction YUM!). Archer might have intrigued her at first yet later on she shows a real interest in him, an interest no one has ever made.
Labels:
2★,
A sign of Love,
DNF,
Mia Sheridan,
New Adult
