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Release Review: Second Chance Husband: Carrie Ann Ryan

by - Monday, October 07, 2024


Second Chance Husband
First Time Series #3
Carrie Ann Ryan

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The First Time series concludes with an enemies to lovers romance that has been a long time coming. August and Paisley finally figure out what they’ve been missing.\

The first time I got married, I watched the man I love walk away from me.

The second time around, I’m the one signing the dotted line first—this one a man who I realized I never loved.

Once burned, twice broken, I’m done looking for love.

Only my first ex-husband seems to be everywhere I turn—at my work, with my friends, and eventually…in my bed.

I didn’t mean for it to happen.

Twice.

But I know if I don’t protect my heart, there will be nothing left of me if he walks away again without telling me why he did so in the first place.

I don’t know if I can trust this new version of ourselves or if it’s merely the heat between us striking hot.

After all, second chances only exist in my dreams.

And there’s no such thing as a second chance husband.


August and Paisley have history. But a lot has happened since their divorce, including a second divorce for Paisley. Though they find themselves in similar circles (Paisley’s best friends are married to August’s brothers), they avoid each other very well until the night Paisley celebrates a little too much and August ends a date early to get her home safely.

As hard as they work to avoid each other, they find themselves in close proximity more and more, leading to a rekindling of the attraction that sent them down the aisle years ago. But they are both carrying emotional scars from their parents and the idea of a serious relationship doesn’t feel possible with everything between them.

I loved everything about this book except for how quickly it felt like it ended. I loved watching them face their shared past, and the confusion surrounding their divorce. I also loved August’s good-guy nature and his devotion to his siblings and their children.

As always, I love the extended families Carrie Ann Ryan creates. The Cassidy’s are making up for the childhood they missed by creating the extended family they wished they had when they were kids. I love the way a reader can pick up any of her books and fall into an entire world woven between all these families. Seeing old favorite characters on the periphery always adds so much to my reading experience. Though this is the last in the First Time series, I am sure some of there will be call backs and cameos of these characters in other books as well.


Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Wilder Brothers, Promise Me, and Elements of Five series, which have sold millions of books worldwide. She’s the winner of a RT Book of the Year and a Prism Award in her genres. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over one hundred novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.




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