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CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Anderson Brothers #3
Marissa Clarke
Releasing November 16th, 2015
Entangled: Lovestruck
Sometimes
the biggest risk is playing it safe…
Gen Richards is tired of living down
to her family’s expectation of the helpless blind girl. Resurrecting her
high-school bucket list that begins with “kiss a total stranger” seems just the
thing until she finds herself in a panty-melting lip lock with her big
brother’s best friend.
Chance Anderson thrives on
adrenaline, but Genny’s the one risk he’s not willing to take. His recklessness
a decade ago landed her in the hospital and ejected him from her life. He’s bad
for her and everyone knows it—especially her big brother.
Chance reluctantly helps Gen
complete her bucket list in order to keep her out of trouble. Running through a
freezing fountain, playing Spin the Bottle while fending off a mad horde of
stinging insects, and skinny dipping with homicidal attack swans don’t hold a
candle to the real danger: falling for the one person he can never have.
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My Review
When one of Gen's colleagues, only one year older than her, dies by choking on a mint, the 25-year-old woman decides to step up the game and actually start living her life, instead of keeping on leading a peaceful life guarded closely by her older brother. As a blind girl, and later woman, her family has always been a little overprotective of her, and just a bit on the disappointed side.
While on an outing with her friend, Gen decides to take out of her wallet her bucket list of things to do, which she created 10 years earlier. The first thing on the list? Kiss a total stranger! But, what happens if the total stranger she kissed proves to be far from stranger?
Ten years ago, when Gen and her brother were still friends with Chance Anderson, a terrible accident happened, leading to the disappointment of Gen's brother towards his former best friend, and the one Gen started to feel herself about Chance, after his disappearance. Now, all those years later, they reunite through the strangest of ways! Chance has sworn to Gen's brother he won't touch his sister again! But, what happens when they discover their mutual attraction for each other?
I just loved this story! And, I loved even more the way the author narrated it!
Readers do not realize at first that Gen is blind. Actually this happens almost at the end of the second chapter, in a completely natural way, emphasizing what the heroine has also said multiple times through the course of the story: Just because she is blind, it doesn't mean she is handicapped, disabled, or helpless. She can live her life just like everyone else, especially since the technology has advanced so much, that she can navigate herself through the city quite easily. She is also no helpless damsel in distress that needs someone to protect and guard her at all times! I loved this fact about the heroine! Gen is a strong, brave, independent young woman who decides to live her life to the fullest. I adored her for that!
I also loved Chance, and the way he viewed and behaved towards Gen! He was protective with her, sure, but not because he considered her weak or helpless. On the contrary, he felt a deep affection towards Gen, and wanted her to do everything that non-blind people do! He is a great and quite realistic character, perfectly described by the author as a tortured individual everybody thought as damaged, so he damaged himself just to prove them right!
I won't say much about the attraction between the heroes, as this is fairly obvious right from the start! And, the way the author described everything? Just marvelous!
All in all, 5 stars for a deep and beautiful read
with realistically strong characters!
My Review
When one of Gen's colleagues, only one year older than her, dies by choking on a mint, the 25-year-old woman decides to step up the game and actually start living her life, instead of keeping on leading a peaceful life guarded closely by her older brother. As a blind girl, and later woman, her family has always been a little overprotective of her, and just a bit on the disappointed side.
While on an outing with her friend, Gen decides to take out of her wallet her bucket list of things to do, which she created 10 years earlier. The first thing on the list? Kiss a total stranger! But, what happens if the total stranger she kissed proves to be far from stranger?
Ten years ago, when Gen and her brother were still friends with Chance Anderson, a terrible accident happened, leading to the disappointment of Gen's brother towards his former best friend, and the one Gen started to feel herself about Chance, after his disappearance. Now, all those years later, they reunite through the strangest of ways! Chance has sworn to Gen's brother he won't touch his sister again! But, what happens when they discover their mutual attraction for each other?
I just loved this story! And, I loved even more the way the author narrated it!
Readers do not realize at first that Gen is blind. Actually this happens almost at the end of the second chapter, in a completely natural way, emphasizing what the heroine has also said multiple times through the course of the story: Just because she is blind, it doesn't mean she is handicapped, disabled, or helpless. She can live her life just like everyone else, especially since the technology has advanced so much, that she can navigate herself through the city quite easily. She is also no helpless damsel in distress that needs someone to protect and guard her at all times! I loved this fact about the heroine! Gen is a strong, brave, independent young woman who decides to live her life to the fullest. I adored her for that!
I also loved Chance, and the way he viewed and behaved towards Gen! He was protective with her, sure, but not because he considered her weak or helpless. On the contrary, he felt a deep affection towards Gen, and wanted her to do everything that non-blind people do! He is a great and quite realistic character, perfectly described by the author as a tortured individual everybody thought as damaged, so he damaged himself just to prove them right!
I won't say much about the attraction between the heroes, as this is fairly obvious right from the start! And, the way the author described everything? Just marvelous!
All in all, 5 stars for a deep and beautiful read
with realistically strong characters!
Excerpt
Her agenda since this whole thing began had done a
one-eighty. She no longer wanted to hurt him and show him what he’d missed when
he left all those years ago; she wanted to make up for lost time. She wanted to
kiss and touch and hold him like she had in her dreams—and in her imagination
when she was alone. She wanted him to see her for the woman she had become. She
wanted him to help her scratch number ten off her list, finally, after a decade
of waiting.
“Okay,” he said. “I’ll go through with it, but I
want to see the list. Keeping me in the dark is counterproductive.”
“Kinda like being me, huh?”
“You know what’s on the list, so, no.”
He wanted to see the list. Fine.
She’d show it to him. She
pulled it out of the back of her phone case and
handed it to him, waiting for his reaction with a smirk.
To her shock, he didn’t ask what to make of it. Instead,
she heard him running his fingers across the surface. Shit. He could
read braille. When had that happened?
“So... Speedboat, slow dance in the rain...”
“Give it back!” she swept her arms in the direction
of his voice and made contact with his chest. Grabbing his T-shirt in her fist,
she reached for his right arm.
“Play spin the bottle?”
“I was fifteen! Please give it back.”
She had to get it away from
him before he read number ten.
“Sleep under the stars...”
That was number nine. She lunged and made a mad
grab for the scrap of paper, but only managed to rip a corner off of it.
“Lose it.”
Crap, crap, crap. She slumped
to the floor and buried her face in her hands to hide what was surely the
mother of all blushes based on the hot flush crawling over her skin.
“Lose what?”
He could not be that dense.
“Oh...that.” He sat down beside her, turned
her hand over, and placed the list in her palm.
“I was fifteen,” she said again as if it made a
difference. “I’m sorry, Gen. I didn’t mean to upset you. You handed it to me.”
“I didn’t know you could read braille.”
He tipped her chin toward him with his fingertips
and wiped away an escaped tear. “You don’t know a lot of things about me.”
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When not writing, she wrangles her rowdy pack of three teens, husband, and a Cairn Terrier named Annabel, who rules the house (and Marissa's heart) with an iron paw.
Prior to attending University of Houston Law School, she received a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Drama from the University of Houston. She has taught drama and playwriting in a large public high school and English in a private school.
Currently, she serves as Vice-President of Programming for the West Houston RWA Chapter, and is a founding member of Houston YA/MG Writers, and the QueryTracker.net Blog.
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Marissa also writes young adult novels for Penguin USA under the name Mary Lindsey. She is represented by Kevan Lyon of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
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