This was a very enjoyable read with a great cast of characters. An epic love story that’s a bit out of order but nevertheless exciting. All wrapped up with the ending we were hoping for but exciting twists and turns until the end!

A funny read that kept me interested for most of the time but then… was just too slow. Love a book about found family.

Thanks NetGalley for an ARC!

After falling in love with Godfrey’s first novel, I was so excited to pick up The Second Chance Library!

I loved the concept of this book but ultimately wasn’t wow’d by the execution! The plot moved which kept me reading but I did not feel a strong connection to the characters, I think the style of writing really deterred me from getting to fall in love with them. They lacked the substance/quirkiness that I crave in character driven novels.

Overall, an interesting read that I would recommend as a beach or vacation read but nothing earth-shattering here!

I liked the practical aspects of this book more than the romance at the heart of it. Although the overarching plot is not exactly practical, the book does deal with the small parts that make up running a hotel.
Amelia listened to her mother and found herself in a hotel that once was famous for people in love. The owners were a couple who were once able to identify those of their guests who would last and helped them on their way. When Amelia gets there, however, things are not going well. It has been a while since the hotel has seen some work done, and the takings are low. Unexpectedly, within a few days of her arrival, Amelia is found holding the keys and maybe the fate of the island along with it. She is not alone when she has left the responsibility, and the man she has to deal with is not one she expects to be attracted to. Her future is uncertain, and she works her way through all her emotions before we reach the end of the book.
I found the repetitive mentions of how Amelia could not imagine herself liking James despite his physical appearance a little off-putting but I found the book to be an easy read overall.
I would recommend it to fans of the genre.
I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is entirely based on my own reading experience.

This was a great forced marriage premise story. Amelia's life is imploding, so she decides to escape to Europe. On the last leg of her tour, she decides to visit a hotel that her mother spoke about visiting with her husband, Amelia's father. There, Amelia meets James, another guest of the hotel. When the owner, knowing he is dying, leaves them as the hotel's owners, Amelia and James need to figure out the next steps. They especially need to figure out what to do with the fact that they were tricked into getting married and that they expected to be returning to their normal lives, not running a hotel in a foreign country. It's a very interesting love story with a lovely Greek backdrop.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This one is a DNF. I tried to read a lot of times but i didn't like it in any of them. It wasnt for me.

Amelia Lang’s life took a turn for the worse in less than a week. While her ex-boyfriend and unfortunately still current coworker, Micah, definitely had a hand in that. After their breakup, Amelia had to move back in with her parents. And when an error prevented a code release at work, on Amelia’s watch, she thought her job at the San Francisco-based software company was in peril. She secured her fate when she threw a mug at Micah’s head after he made an unsavory comment about her mistake. After she packs up her belongings and makes the drive-of-shame home, she spontaneously changes her plans and reschedules a planned couples trip into a solo female trip to Paris, on the next flight out. After a few months on her European adventure, she makes her last stop before returning home - a barren hotel on a remote Greek island. She meets another solo traveler - James - and is tricked into marrying him in less than two weeks of meeting. Plus, the owner of the hotel gave them the property, transferring ownership to the newlyweds. The Second Chance Hotel by Sierra Godfrey follows Amelia’s unexpected business ownership and partnership, and whether she chooses to return home to her old life, or forge a new path that she never imagined.

Godfrey gets all the points for creating an entertaining novel with unforgettable characters.
The Second Chance Hotel was a fun and charming story that I didn’t know I wanted. James is the perfectly adorkable fake husband that any woman wouldn’t mind being stuck with. And even though Amelia has a tendency to run away from her troubles, readers will appreciate her more redeemable qualities. Whether it’s using her project management skills to improve the hotel’s profitability, or her self-confidence when it comes to men. The fact the inexperienced couple has to somehow run the hotel in a foreign country (after all, they’ve got bookings to prepare for), develop a business strategy, and refrain from jumping into bed with one another makes the outlandish circumstances that much more amusing. Add in the backdrop of beautiful olive groves on a Greek island, and readers will want to buy a plane ticket themselves.

Hello Book friends!

Today I’m reviewing The Second Chance Hotel by Sierra Godfrey. In this contemporary romance, we follow Amelia Lang, a thirty-something year old woman in a tech job in the heart of San Francisco, whose life quickly turns from bad to worse. She escapes the mess she's landed in, traveling all over Europe, searching for a new start, or a second chance.

Now, let’s chat about the book itself.

First, we have to acknowledge the opening of The Last Chance Hotel. I was completely hooked! When your MC is throwing their mug across the room, during a quarterly meeting, at their ex-boyfriends head, you know you're in for a good ride. And in all honestly, after the first chapter, readers can sympathize with Amelia's decision to flee the country.

After that quick jarring opening, which grabs your attention and keeps you glued to each page, it slowly peters out. Up until she gets to Greece that is...

Once Amelia lands in Greece we are transported into a new world filled with food, a gorgeous view that readers will long to visit. The quirky loveable side characters who, mostly have good intentions, want to keep the hotel that Amelia is staying at, out of the hands of corporations, are fantastic.

My last concern was the accidental marriage between Amelia and James. It seemed a little far-fetched. And too, that they also inherit the hotel, as guests no less, kind of stretched my suspended disbelief.

However, it's how Amelia and James team up to try and make it work that makes this a more enjoyable read. It is delightful to see how they come together, even though there's a bit of uncertainty where their feelings are concerned, to make running the hotel a success.

Romance readers will long for the setting (I’m tempted to book a trip to Greece) and will enjoy the journey of two people finding a place for themselves and each other.

Happy Reading ~ Cece

Huge thanks to NetGalley and the author for the eARC.


Eu queria dizer que existe leitura e leituras e ainda bem que não tem data pra entregar a review. Esse foi o livro que eu precisava ler através de audiobook pois para um romance tem bastante descrição de cenários e cotidiano e não senti muito que tivesse diálogos.

De qualquer forma, o livro explora a história da Amelia que ao ser demitida decide viajar pela Europa e tem como seu último destino uma ilha na Grécia. O que ela não esperava era casar com o outro único hospede do hotel e de ainda levar como presente de casamento: o hotel e uma divida do velório do antigo dono.

Com uma premissa de casamento forçado, eu esperava mais romance (🥲), mas o livro é bem mais sobre desenvolvimento pessoal e segundas chances para si mesmo. Sobre se encontrar em lugares e pessoas inimagináveis e fazer de lá sua casa.

The romance is a slow burn, but really enjoyable, I loved how they where thrown in together from the start. I really liked the tricked into marriage and now you inherited a hotel trope. This book was very much giving Mamma Mia vibes and I really enjoyed it! I love books that combine romance with self-discovery.

I wish I could go to Greece, and inherit a hotel and get mart to a hot stranger and get my marriage of convenience trope.

Fun read! If you've ever dreamed of running a hotel on a small Greek island- paradise-this is the book for you! Add in accidently marrying a hot guy, and inheriting a hotel that needs TLC. A nice back and forth with the main characters makes the story move along, and makes this a nice, easy read.

Thank you Netgalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the ARC!

It starts slow but it ends strong, it’s definitely a book that at first seems like it will be a cliche story but as it unfolds and the characters start to develop you cannot stop and you want to know how it ends. Like the characters and the setting

3.5 stars. For the first 10% of this story, I wasn’t sure if it was working. But then the characters became more endearing and real, and the plot began to unfold. Amelia gets fired from her job in San Francisco (after an unfortunate fiasco) and runs away from her best friend (before her friend’s wedding) to travel in Europe. Her escape eventually lands her in Greece, at a family-owned hotel on a small, obscure island where her parents fell in love.

Amelia realizes her adventure is going off the rails as soon as she arrives in Greece. What follows are quirky characters, a wild wedding where you can see it’s a train wreck but you can’t look away, and opportunities for the characters to evolve and find their way through challenges and big decisions. When Amelia and fellow traveller, James, unwittingly become co-owners of the hotel, which is a bit rundown, there is an enemies to lovers vibe with lots of tension.

The author writes some great laugh out loud moments, and sometimes truly incredulous moments, but this story will ultimately be the perfect Mediterranean getaway with some delicious food thrown in, and a satisfying conclusion.

Thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark and Netgalley for the advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

what’s a girl to do when she’s dumped and loses her job? run away to another country of course! Amelia ups and leaves everything she’s known after she feels like she has nothing left, ending up on the little greek island that her parents met. she meets a guy a a hotel - and ends up marrying him & inheriting a hotel! what’s a girl to do now- embrace a new start or continue to run away?

i loved the plot line of this book and amelia’s backstory, it was sweet and completely relatable in feeling lost in life when nothing seems to go right! for me, the back and forth and lack of communication between amelia and the people she left behind, then with james was a sore spot, i felt like she wasn’t acknowledging what she had and COULD have - she was just stuck in the past.

thank you to NetGalley for sending me an ARC copy of this book in exchange for a honest review!

Escapism at it's best. If you have ever wanted to just run away from all your problems than you need to read this book. It's hilarious and honest.

i had a hard time geting in to the book, but i did realy like it.
it was so cute how the had to fix up the old hotel and still finding out if this was the right place for them to be after they got married whitout knowing it .
but i would realy have liket them to talk a little more together.

*Two strangers are forced to spend time together on a small island in Greece
*What could possibly go wrong?
*Learned lots of Greek words
*Loved the full-of-personality characters
*Amelia focuses too much on finding a guy- relax!
*Would make a great Rom Com movie with a few tweaks
*Includes Birgette’s Potato Moussaka recipe
*Reading Group Guide also included

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

While I'm normally not a fan of second chance stories I did enjoy this one more than I thought I would.

Greek setting? Romance? Some adventure? I liked this. This was a fun book. I think I would have enjoyed this more if I read it while I was on like a vacation or something. I read this at home, and it did not give me the same impact or feeling.