Love and Other Chances by Tracy Baack: Book Review

 **ARC received for consideration. All opinions are my own. 

The Book

“It feels like Brooks is uniquely designed to make or break my heart.”

Teegan Jones is the epitome of an extrovert—so why is she suddenly avoiding people?

For the past three years, she’s thrived in her full-time ministry position as a mentor to college students, but now burnout is looming. Teegan takes her long-distance best friends’ advice: find local peers who can fill her cup. The last thing she expects is for one of those peers to be the man she spent years intentionally forgetting.

Brooks Murphy shredded Teegan’s soul in high school. But it’s evident he’s not the same guy he was eight years ago. This Brooks is all the things she once loved about him, paired with the growth and maturity brought about by his own faith journey.

He’s here. He’s changed. And he’s oh-so-appealing.

But is a second chance at love worth the risk of repeat heartbreak?

Love and Other Chances is a contemporary second chance romance. Readers who appreciate sweet romances, relatable characters with depth and growth, and light faith themes will love this story. You'll find plenty of swoon with no spice in this closed-door, kisses-only romance.

This is the second book in the interconnected Love and Other. . . series, following Love and Other Goals. While written as a standalone, reading the books in order will provide the best reader experience.

Content Considerations for Sensitive Readers: Divorced parents; present grief over past death of parent

The Author

Tracy was that elementary school kid determined to be #1 in the Accelerated Reader standings every year (one part love of reading + one part competitive spirit). She spent so much time absorbed in imaginary worlds with fictional characters, she started dreaming up her own storylines - always with a heaping dose of love and happily ever afters.

Decades later, she's finally putting pen to paper (and fingers to keyboard) to make swoony, closed-door love stories feel real for other readers.

When she's not writing, reading, or daydreaming new stories, Tracy loves baking, long walks in the sunshine, drinking coffee with friends, listening to podcasts, and playing board games with her family. She lives in Kansas with her husband and four children.

Find Tracy on Instagram: @authortracybaack

Book Review

Love and Other Chances is the second book in the Love and Other series. I had not personally read the first book in the series and found that I was still able to enjoy this one just fine as a standalone--- though the glimpses that we get of the couple from book one certainly had me curious to go back and read their story too! 

Oh, what a sweet read this was! Second chance romance sometimes get a bit of hate, but personally, I absolutely adore them. Stories like Brooks and Teegan's is the perfect example as to why- sometimes, it's not the wrong person, it's just the right person at the wrong time... and characters have to grow first to be where they need to be to make it work. Brooks and Teegan definitely had a rough history, but seeing how far Brooks had come in his faith journey since his teenage years? That was absolutely beautiful. I loved their chemistry, of course, and how determined her was to win her back but more than that I loved how they supported each other throughout. It was a really sweet and tender relationship that I couldn't help but enjoy. If you love books with beautiful faith-filled romance and strong female friendships, this is certainly one you'll want to check out. 

Love and Other Chances is a closed-door Christian romance with kisses only. There is one minor swear. 


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