REVIEW: Second Song by Con Riley (Second Chance School #1)

SECOND SONG

Second Chance School - Book One

by Con Riley

Release Date: May 8, 2024

Review

Con blows me away every time. Her writing is spectacular. It’s the kind of writing that requires you to read every single word because you will miss nuggets of truths that will floor you. Honestly, anytime I read her work, but especially this one, I’m not only drawn into every emotion of the characters, but I also find myself learning so much about myself or about how I wish the world could be.

Liam and Rowan are both incredible people. Compassionate, hurting, and in need of a second chance. Their meeting was dramatic but set the scene for who these men were and the way they would keep finding themselves pulled to each other. What they bring to each other, but also the community was perfect.

It felt so good to be back at Glynn Harber where we get to see some of the most impactful members of the team. Charles and Luke were both perfect and necessary additions to this story. But we also get a bunch of other cameos to make us smile.

Honestly, this was just exquisite and felt like coming home.

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Synopsis

Page-turning heat and hurt-comfort start on a Cornish cliffside and end at a school where not only students heal from past pain.

Do first times count if you forget them?

Rowan: I once lost a national singing contest. My consolation prize? A night I can’t remember and the tattoo on my bare bottom going viral. Six years later, I’m ready to rise like a phoenix from those shameful public ashes even if my singing days are over. Training as a music teacher is the second chance I need to prove I can be trusted to help children with their own trauma.

I can’t get distracted by falling for the wounded hero who saved me on my first day in Cornwall.

Liam: Blast damage forced me to leave the Army, and guilt keeps me running from those I hurt in the process. I don't intend to fall for a pretty stranger trapped on a cliffside, but something about Rowan makes me crave more than our one heated night together, especially when he responds like I’m the first man to ever touch his heart or body.

If he wants a second chance here in Cornwall, I’ll stay and fight until he gets one.

Featuring a musician too bruised to sing and the soldier ready to battle for him, Second Song is first in the Second Chance School series. Expect found family, a spectrum of diverse characters, and an HEA fit for angsty heroes.

This spin-off shared-world series aligns with the much-adored Learning to Love series. No prior knowledge is necessary to enjoy this standalone full-length novel.

(C/W and trauma-related T/W are located on the copyright page).

About Con Riley

CON RILEY lives on the wild and rugged Devonshire coast, with her head in the clouds and her feet in the Atlantic Ocean. Injury curtailed her enjoyment of outdoor pursuits, so writing fiction now fills her free time instead. Love, loss, and redemption shape her romance stories, and her characters are flawed in ways that make them live and breathe. When not people-watching or wrangling her own boy band of teen sons, she spends time staring at the sea from her kitchen window. If you see her, don’t disturb her—she’s probably thinking up new plots.

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