Second Chance by Jane Green Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Second Chance
Book Review: Affairs, divorce, etc.
Summary: 2 Stars
I have a hard time with books about affairs and divorce... mostly because I'm recently married and not ready to think too much about those topics. If you are more into these topics, then you may enjoy this book more than I did.Book Review: An okay commuter book
Summary: 3 Stars
A commuter book is my version of the "beach book." It's something for me to do on the train, but light enough to not take seriously or even pay TOO much attention to because I know I'll be distracted by train stops and other such things.
While I think Jane Green had an interesting idea, it was poorly executed with very cliche characters and immature, one--dimensional dialogue. At some points, I said to myself, "Wow, I can't believe Jane had the nerve to even write such things," in response to things that only 12-year-old high school girls would say, bt were coming out of 30-something year old's mouths.
I think this book's ultimate demise, however, is the end. There was a LOT of leading up to what decisions the main character's would make, especially Holly's. After the big climatic confrontational chapter, the next was a quick (cop-out) conclusion about how each character ended up during a "reunion" scene. Never was it explained how some of the characters made very different choices for their personalities or beliefs. Some others, however, were very predictable, which is okay for an entertaining chick lit book.
Overall, I enjoyed it, I suppose. It had it's major faults, and I don't think Jane Green is the best of chick-lit writers by any means. But it's an entertaining read if you need something to do on your 40-minute commute to work each day. The characters are at times very annoying, as far their descriptions by Ms. Green, but the stories and how everyone intertwines are, for the most part, relateable. If this book had been better written, I'd have been more happy with it.
Book Review: Bland Chick Lit
Summary: 2 Stars
I didn't think this book ever got off the ground. I kept waiting for the story to take off. I read The Beach House first and was the first time I read Jane Green. I really liked that story and kept me interested up to the end. I am a decade or more older than the characters in this book, so it may be as much me as the writer. Not to say I won't read another Jane Green to see if it's as good as I thought The Beach House was.Book Review: Boring and reads like other novels of late....
Summary: 1 Stars
"Second Chance" focuses on the lives of former school friends who are brought back together after one of their old friends, Tom dies in a terrorist attack (yep you read that right a terrorist attack). As usual (or in her most recent novels) Jane Green has way too many characters going through turmoil constantly that does not allow the reader to really engage with any of them.
The characters:
Holly, (who I think Green wants to portray as the main heroine) a mother of two, married to a controlling husband, and now thinks that Tom was the love of her life and who is now dealing with having a crush on Tom's brother.
Saffron, a Hollywood actress who is having an affair with a married Hollywood actor and is also a recovering alcoholic.
Olivia, has broken up with her long-time boyfriend.
Paul, who has been trying to have a baby with his wife.
I think Jane Green would have been better served in just writing a novel focusing on one main character as it went I ended up finishing the book and just being glad that I was done with it and didnt care about any of the characters. All in all this was a very disappointing read for me and I think I am going to skip buying anymore of Jane Green's novels unless I hear some positive things about it.
Book Review: Bummer
Summary: 2 Stars
Like some of the other reviewers here I was completely disappointed with Jane Green's recent book. I felt like I was reading something written by a completely different author - where was all of her usual wit and charm?? I felt like a few things happened in the beginning and in the end, but the rest was so slow and boring. We know Holly is unhappy and she knows exactly WHY she's unhappy so it's just plain frustrating that we hear all about why Marcus is horrible for her (and just horrible in general) from the very beginning of the book all the way to the end. It was just depressing and I felt like things weren't moving forward AT ALL. Like the whole book could have been two chapters long. I didn't feel connected to these characters, as I have in her past books, at all. I really hope she goes back to her old ways in the next book!!