Title: Second Chance

Author: Danielle Steel

Genre: Romance

Format: own hardback book

Series: NA

Star Rating: 3 stars

This book did not hit in the way I thought it was going to. I had such high hopes for it in the beginning even though I thought the main character, Fiona, sounded like a lovely woman. There were just some things about this book that rubbed me the wrong way. 

I think John just sucked as a character and I think he was the main problem I had with this book. He knew the kind of life Fiona led but yet judged her for all the clothes she had and the people she associated with. Like I don't know what he expected. He also had some horrible kids, I mean just completely rotten. This might be slightly spoilery but one of his kids had an abortion and blamed it on John dating Fiona. How the hell did John and his late wife raise his kids? That is psychotic! There were so many other things that happened with John’s kids but that seems to be a common theme with Danielle Steel’s books. The kids are always so rotten. 

However, one of the worst things about John was that he just got up and left Fiona. She was so afraid of being left thanks to a rather traumatic childhood. John knew that and still decided to leave. He didn’t even bother with counseling or anything that made him entirely unforgivable in my eyes—and then had the audacity to try and come back, as if he didn’t completely destroy this woman. I was fuming almost the whole time, I was so frustrated with John. 

Overall, this was not Danielle Steel’s best showing. The love interest in the book completely ruined the book. He had no redeeming qualities and I truly don’t know what Fiona actually saw in him. He was a basic man who had nothing to offer such a smart and amazing woman. His kids were garbage and he should have grounded them into the next millenia. This was mediocre at best.