*Official release date: October 6th, 2014*
Synopsis:
*** You Turn is a contemporary adult romance and part of the Second Chances series. However, Lenor and Zach’s story can be read as a stand-alone novel. There is no cliffhanger. ***
"I was the little girl who loved you from afar. I was the woman
who gave herself away for you and ended up losing a lot of who she was."
"Then allow me to give back some of what I stole."
After being dumped by her fiancé,
Eleanor Carrington flees to Paris to help her self-medicated mother. While
keeping her mom from popping pills like gummy bears, Eleanor launches a new,
no-strings-attached life plan with absolutely NO falling in love whatsoever. On
her part at least, because her self-esteem could do with one or two Frenchmen
going un peu crazy for her.
What she doesn’t need is for her
first Grand Amour, Zachary Murdoch, to burst back into her life. Whatever
shit-show she’s just been through was a stroll. What Zach put her though was a
climb up Mount Everest. Barefoot. In a bikini.
Now a club-owner in Paris, Zach
is intrigued by the troubled woman who was once the sweet girl he had to give
up. Offering a shoulder for her to cry on is what he owes her. Loving her is
what he lost the right to. Because there’s a reason he broke up with Lenor and
that reason is why she’s in Paris.
But Paris is known as the City of
Love…
Will he be her turn at love?
You Turn is one of those books
where you know the main characters are going to end up together but instead of
being predictable and boring it makes it worth your while. It is a light read
(for me at least) for the most part, but the author sure knows when to throw a
heartbreaking twist that leaves a reader coated in disbelief (I know I was). This
book is a light read for me because despite the—shall we say—gloomy start of the book and the main
characters’ predicament, the romantic sparks in the air made it lighter.
This book is told in both the
main characters’—Zach’s and Eleanor’s—POVs, and it shows both the past and the
present. Including their past in Zach’s POV is a nice touch in the story
because the readers get to know the other side of what happened five years ago.
The plot fits perfectly against each other. I like the way the chapters—the intervals
of the past and present—are arranged.
The characters are easy to like. The
impression I got from Eleanor Carrington is she’s not capable of holding onto
anger for long. Yes, she was still hurting from the sudden break up with her
ex-fiancée, but I didn’t get the feeling that she’s angry. I don’t know if that’s
good or bad.
Zachary Murdoch (the present
Zach) is laid back and cool. I felt his devotion to Eleanor right from the
start. However, the man he became remains a mystery to me. I get it that he was
waiting for Eleanor to step back into his life, but I don’t think I had enough
emotions from the present him to really figure him out. I just know that he
loves her. I am also not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
I want to say so much more, but I
do not want to spoil anything. If I haven’t mentioned it, I really liked this
book. Both sweet and heartbreaking, You Turn struck me as a story of not just first
love and second chances, but also of heartaches, painful truths, dire mistakes
and forgiveness.
~ Zee
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