This was a good romance book. I think it was a lady hard-core characters and had a good pacing and everything just fit really well, but unfortunately it just wasn’t superb. I didn’t get me in the field. I did actually really like this book and I will definitely be reading more from this author of future of the front cover was stunning. The character arcs was cool and I love the slow progression, although the third at break up with a little annoying but it was good overall

I did not vibe with this book. The characters were a little flat. Kellie was probably one of the most likable characters. When new characters were introduced it was hard to follow the story line without confusion.

This was a "did not finish" for me. It was dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Please do not waste your time. This story definitely needed better editing.

The beginning is heartbreaking. Tragedy is brought to 3 of the 4 brothers and the repercussions go on and on. Jaxson and Kelly find each other and sparks fly.

The story rides the waves of emotions while the two find their way. The years pass quickly as the family finds their ways to deal with the heartbreak and memories. In the midst of it all are the children, parents and grandparents who will make you smile.

The ending is a tear jerker but leaves a lot of questions to be answered.

I enjoyed this one , the story line was good , heart broken widow jaxson has a one night stand With kellie . I feel like this book had all the emotions , heartbreak, humor and anguish .

If you need a good cry ! This is the book for you

This is a good book. The two main characters are Kellie and Jaxson. The story starts with Jaxson and his wife Dahlia, she is going out with her sisters in law, while Jaxson and his brothers watch all their twins, each brother has a set. A drunk driver hits and kills each of the sisters in law. Each brother decides they must all live together and support each other. Jaxson meets Kellie at a fair and attraction is immediate. They each have issues but together they work them out and fall in love.

I really struggled to finish this book, and that is so not me - I hate to give up on a book. The premise of this book intrigued me, but the actual reading experience was meh at best. I had multiple issues with the book and want to emphasize this is my personal opinion, and even though this was not a book I enjoyed, you may love it. Many other people have given this books glowing 5 star reviews.

The story is written in a narrative style which my least favorite writing styles which I think makes it hard to feel any connection to the characters. For most of the book the POV bounces between Jaxson and Kellie, but somewhere around the 75% mark random other characters are telling the story. For example, we get a chapter from the boyfriend of one of Jason’s daughters. To have characters who haven’t been around but in the background all of a sudden telling the story - was just weird and distracting.

The story takes place over 18 years. Initially my heart was broken for Jaxson, his brother’s and their children. The story skips ahead about 4 years and Jaxson meets Kellie at a main street fair. He goes from being a hermit and barely interacting with people outside of work, his family and children to a R rated event alongside the road with a woman he met just that night. When he gets home he then invites her to come over to his house for some adult playtime, before inviting her to spend the day with him and his 4 year old daughters. He goes from one extreme to the other with how he interacts with her when he slams the brakes on anything more than a platonic friendship for months. They have a best friends/lovers arrangement for years, and as the book skips ahead they eventually move in together around the 8 year mark. From here the story just loses me with the crazy events that take place with little explanation or storytelling and as the timeline keeps advancing ahead weeks and months and references events are brought up about past events that haven’t previously been mentioned or ‘discussed’ by the characters as if it was actually part of this story.

I’ve only read this book by the author, but from reading the blurbs for the other 3 brothers’ books and a guess, I believe the author has the 4 books focusing on each brother, but she the events happen in parallel timeframes so when you read the next brother’s book you get more details of what you’ve already read just from a different POV. So events and stories are referenced that seem out of the blue and have no connection to the story shared in this book. It gets ridiculously confusing and doesn’t improve the reading experience. If anything, it convinced me I don’t want to read the other books in the series because I have a pretty good idea what ends up happening but the why and how will be a convoluted mess that I just don’t want to take the time to read.

Lastly, I went from really feeling sympathy for Jaxson to almost despising him. Frankly how he treats Kellie for the last 1/3 of the book I kept hoping she’d end up with one of the other brothers!

I received a free ARC from the author and NetGalley; and I am leaving an unbiased review which is my own opinion. Just because this book wasn’t one I enjoyed, give it a chance because you may love it.

A long, 20 year look at how Kellie and Jaxson move from a hook up, to lovers to friends and then for it all to fall apart. We romp through the years looking at the little things in life every few years or so and seeing the family members grow up. We even have chapters from the point of view of the many other people in Jaxson’s life. The decades are interesting and seeing how people develop and what they go on to do and become is always fascinating. There are so many central characters, and tangents that it gets hard to keep up and at times to want to follow all the bylines that seem to sprout up all over the place.

Unfortunately, this was a DNF for me. Not sure if it was because I received an ARC, but I felt this entire story needed a thorough edit. There were simple grammar issues to continuity issues.
- Not sure if the character was gender fluid, but Nonna’s pronoun kept changing between she/he.
- Kellie’s character gets into an altercation with a drunk guy. He sneers at her attempt to challenge him. “ … how cute that you think that you can go all bitch mode and get in my face. You are what, all of five foot nine?” Five foot nine and “with meat on her bones” doesn’t sound like a light weight to me!
- Kellie had ridden to the fair and, by chance, meets Jaxson. They ride off together on her motorbike, both wearing helmets. What? Where did the second helmet come from? No biker I know carries a second helmet with them just because.
- Fairly early into their relationship, Kellie sees Jaxson interacting with his daughters. She has an “ovaries exploding” moment then her next thought was “what ovaries?” Huh? It was only until later, when she meets the older family members, that she tells Nonna her infertility story. Yet it is only 4 years into her relationship with Jaxson, that she explains to him.
- Names of other secondary characters kept popping up with no reference as to who they were.
The sexy times were hot but I would have liked more emotional development.

The writing made this book very hard to get through. It was very poor and strange at some times. I love tropes/plots like this one so I was very excited but unfortunately did not get the experience I wanted. The male main character's attitude was also strange as well, did not enjoy it at all.

I was immediately drawn in by the author's convincing style, I really got into this story and had a hard time putting it down, I needed to get to the end to see how will it end. The steamy sex scenes did add to enjoyable reading.

If you like romance and don't mind sex scenes in your books you may enjoy this one.
This is the first time I've come across this author and I enjoyed the writing style. Likable characters and the story flows well.

DNF -

I found it to be repetitive and full of clichés. I was really optimistic that this would be more raw and emotional, but it felt a little too scattered to be truly impactful. Overall this just wasn't for me.

One of my favorite tropes in romance is second chance love, and I recently have been enjoying romances that highlight fathers, so I was very excited to dive into this story. However, I was massively disappointed. This story follows Jaxson Brentworth, a young, hot dad who last his wife, and high school sweetheart, in a fiery car accident when his twin daughters were only 6 months old. Also in the car with his wife were the wives of two of his brothers, who both also have sets of twins. All of the babies were born at almost the same time, and all of the wives were best friends in high school. A few years after the accident, Jaxson meets Kellie, a wild child free spirit who breaths life back into him.
I have a lot of issues with this book, and looking through other reviews, it makes me wonder if I got a bad copy? There is a lot wrong structurally with this story. There were too many times that a character would say a cliche to themselves in their mind or to another character, and then a paragraph later a different character would say the exact same line. I love cliches but having this happen so frequently made it feel like a forced writing choice, and it really harbored my enjoyment. Additionally, I continued to find plot holes especially with character knowledge and the general timeline of the story. There were a few times when a character would say something during a dialogue, and I was unsure how they actually knew it. The timeline is erratic; this 300-page book spans over almost 20 years. I just think it was too ambitious, and highly unnecessary. It was cool to see the babies grow up and graduate high school, but it really dragged out the romance unnecessarily. The characters obviously do not get their happy ever after until the end!
I think my biggest gripe with this story overall is that there felt like there was no character development, and characters continually made decisions that did not align with who they were. For example, Jaxson lost the love of his life, a girl who has been his best friend since kindergarten, and the first night he goes out on his own, he has a one-night stand and decides to invite her over to meet the girls the next morning. This seemed so rushed and out of character, and not in a believable way. He then proceeds to tell Kellie, after only a few months of hooking up (because they never officially said they were dating) that he loves her so much more than his deceased wife. Then, after 11 years of not-dating-but-living-together nonsense, Kellie gets a job opportunity and moves to Alaska and someone sends the whole Brentworth clan a doctored video that makes it look like Kellie is now engaged to another man. Without talking to Kellie or hearing her side Jaxson ghosts her...AFTER 11 YEARS TOGETHER.
ALL of the characters seem to go 0-60 and get angry during every discussion and I would be halfway through a monologue before I realized the character was angry. Towards the end of the book there continues to be more and more characters' perspectives thrown in, but only for one short chapter. I felt like all of these chapters were unnecessary and did not help in moving the plot along in a productive way.
I also really felt like the book was trying way to hard to emulate "50 Shades of Grey".
I wish this story was solely Jaxson's perspective, and the story only spanned maybe 5 years at most. This book was too much, and not enough.

I really wanted to like this book, but I couldn’t connect with the characters or writing style. That doesn’t mean it’s not a good book, of course—everyone has different tastes so if the description appeals to you, give it a go.

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to review this book!
I loved the first half of Second Time Around. The steamy romance and chemistry between the two main characters, Jaxson and Kellie, was really fun and intriguing. I didn't care for the way time passed so quickly though and felt that it made the chemistry between the characters really start to lag. Around half way through, some new characters were introduced with a new storyline and I was left confused as I really just wanted to read about the relationship between Kellie and Jaxson.
Additionally, parts of the book were pretty unrealistic...four brothers all having sets of twins after marrying high school sweethearts at young ages. The way the children talked throughout the book was pretty unrealistic as well since they seemed a lot older than they were!
That said, if you're looking for a contemporary romance with lots of steam, you may still enjoy this. Just go into it knowing that a lot of time passes quickly and that the story veers away from the two main characters sometimes. I think it would have been helpful if the book description explained that part of the story so the reader knows what they're getting into.
I still gave this book 3 stars even though I didn't love it, because it was well written and had interesting characters and plot points. In the end, I think the story was just not for me.

Overall a good story.

But a five chapter intro is a bit too long for my taste. A lot of the info provided in the first chapters could have been slipped into flashbacks later in the book, making easier to digest it all in smaller bites. Also one piece of info was served up three times. Too much telling and too little showing in my opinion.

Interesting back story and good characters. As a reader I even got to know the childrens's personalities.

I was given the opportunity to read this book through Netgalley. Which is the only reason I didn't give up during the very long intro to the story.

This book suffers from trying to include too much which resulted in me feeling like I didn't know the characters particularly well, as well as feeling like the story was chaotic and all over the place. It starts early with three brothers, all in relationships with women who are all killed in the one accident, leaving the brothers to raise their respective twins alone. Subsequently the men live together for a period and the book progresses through their varied grief processes to finding new relationships.
This book is primarily about Jaxson and his meeting Kellie. Their meeting is steamy and it promises everything, but Jaxson backs off, feeling like he is betraying the memory of his wife. That's pretty clear, and as the YEARS progress we see the relationship limp along to the point where they decide to move in together. There's a whole lot of stuff that goes on within the family and the other children, and with new partners, that in the end, because of the lack of focus I've had to put this aside. I actually started it again, as I'd deleted it from my kindle, thinking I hadn't read it, and then remembered as it went on, only to get no further the second time round.
I feel it needed a narrower focus, with some of the other issue possibly the groundwork for other books. I also felt the initial sex scene between Jaxson and his wife was fairly gratuitous and unnecessary. I felt she could have still been a significant presence without knowing they had spicey sex before she died.
Bummed that this one went the way it did, because the premise really could have worked.

** I received this as an E-ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review, Thank you!**

Stuffed full of "that would never happen" coincidences, silly clichés, overused sayings, and trite phrases, this book is every book trope in one.

I don’t know if I have the words to say how much I disliked the writing style of this book. It really read like a rough draft. There were many times I thought "wait, what?" and had to go back and re-read sentences. Time skips forward in this book without the mention of time going forward (you only realize it by the context later in the paragraph or chapter). It happens in the middle of chapters, which is quite jarring. All of a sudden we are whisked away to the future. It feels like we are just granted a glimpse in time from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and then pulled away to the next scene.

We also meet many characters with no explanation of how they fit into the story. In some mystery novels, that is ok because it builds the suspense... But in this book we aren't given those little nuggets of information that make it feel like a mystery to connect the dots later. In this book, it really feels like dangling participles.

The progression of the stories and relationships are not well thought out or well explained. It is possible that many of the mysteries will be solved later in the series, but we as readers really aren't given enough hints or bread crumbs to want to continue to follow that trail. I can't see myself wanting to follow this disjointed path that may meander around before abandoning me in a desert of disjointed story lines and dry characters.

There is also the issue of the many, MANY grammar, spelling, and formatting mistakes. I hope that before it is published for the masses that someone will do another once over of this book and help even the most simple mistakes be corrected. In some places, even the complete wrong word is used. It is extremely hard to stay connected to the book when every few sentences there is some type of problem.

Summary: What happens when the only person you have ever loved is taken away in the blink of an eye? Jaxson Brentwood just lost the love of his life and the mother of his twins. Two of his brothers lost their spouses also. How will he move on when the ghost of Dahlia haunts every corner of his life? He lost one love to death, will he throw away his second chance?

Kellie's foster parents died in a horrific crash four years ago, leaving her orphaned again, and struggling to find her place in the world. When she meets Jaxson and his girls, she finally feels like her world is complete. Until she realizes he his holding onto a future that will never happen. Kellie is holding on to secrets of her own, will they be too much for Jaxson to overlook?

Review: This book was so over the top unbelievable that maybe this should be shelved in Fantasy? Three teenage brothers marry three teenage best friends who all have flower names. Then ALL THREE COUPLES conceive within a month of each other and all three couples make TWINS, who are all born within a week of each other. (This is not a spoiler, this is all in the first chapter). Then all of the twins are given flower names to go with their moms' flower names, and they become the kid flower garden. Barf. It is just not... believable. Then, the inconceivable happens, and all three brothers lose their wives on the same night, leaving them bachelors to take care of their twins, so they all move in together. Again, very, very unlikely!

A quick overview on twins, because someone somewhere missed the science lesson- Having Fraternal twins (meaning two eggs and two sperm) can be hereditary, but that gene comes from the mother's genetics. At the time of conception, the father's genetics do not come into play to create twins. If parents create identical twins (one egg, one sperm, and the egg splits into two), then genetics do not come into play because this occurrence happens spontaneously. Bringing this full circle: If the three wives were related with a history of fraternal twins in the family, this would be far more plausible. Because we are talking about three brothers though, the odds of this are too outrageous to calculate.

Ignoring all of the crazy coincidences, all of the errors in grammar, all of the timeline jumps, the lack of continuity, all of the unexplained characters, and all of the science that made this far fetched... This book was kind of cute. The relationship between Jaxson and Hollie was sort of nice, but could have been developed better. I hated how all of the information was shoved in our faces in chapter one. This author could benefit from reading Save The Cat's chapter on plotting problems. In the first scene we are given all the info that really should be in the first 10-20% of the book, not the first chapter. Overall this book is a hot mess and really needs a cleanup crew. But it does have a great premise, and could really be something great!!!!

<b>PoV:</b> First person, present, dual
<b>ToN (Type of Narration):</b> N/A
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<b>Genre and Sub genre:</b> Romance
<b>Location:</b> Morgan Springs
<b>Time(s):</b> Current
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<b>TW/CW's:</b> <spoiler> death of spouse, death of a parent, drunk driving </spoiler>
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<b>Sex Rating:</b> 3/5
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**3.75 Stars**

Second Time Around is a second chance romance on a couple different levels. Jaxon's wife and the love of his life dies tragically, leaving him alone to raise his twin daughters, who are just babies at the time. He has the support of his brothers and family and they are all raising their kids together. He is not at all focused on dating, until Kellie enters his life when least expected and turns his world upside down. Jaxson has been merely surviving since his wife's passing and Kellie gets him to actually start enjoyng life and smiling again. She bonds with his daughters and adds something wonderful to their family. I loved that she didn't try to replace his wife, she just wanted to be there for them and create new memories. She was very patient and understanding while Jaxon struggled with commitment.

I do feel like there were some parts of the story that were not completely realistic, but for entertainment purposes it didn't bother me. I also felt like the timelines mentioned throughout the chapters were either confusing or didn't match up at times. I felt like Jaxson and Kellie had a wonderful connection and she fit seemlessly into the lives of Jax and his daughters that I had a definite issue with the major conflict of the story. It seemed entirely immature and unrealistic and not at all in line with the rest of the book. I think without this particular conflict, the book would have definitely rated higher for me. It wasn't the right conflict and it was handled poorly all around (just my two cents).

I loved how well Jaxson and his brothers got along and how close they all were and how close the kids were. I probably will pick up the other books in the series if I get a chance as I have read two now, but we will see.