Second Chance on the Corner of Main by Meg Easton

Second Chance on the Corner of Main

Author: Meg Easton

Publisher: Mountain Heights Publishing

Published: October 16, 2018

ISBN13: 978-1723911873

Paperback/e-book: 185 pages

FTC FYI: I received a e-book copy from the author. All views and opinions expressed are my own.

Goodreads Summary

Meet the women business owners at Nestled Hollow! Each has been running their business while running from love. All that is about to change in this beloved small town.

Fun-loving Whitney Brennan enjoys being in the middle of every town gathering in Nestled Hollow—and writing about it all in the town paper that she owns. But she’s terrified of making any real or deep connection with anyone because she knows that if she does, they’ll end up leaving like everyone else did. Like her high school best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Eli, did on graduation night.

Eli Treanor skipped out of Nestled Hollow twelve years ago and created a new life and a thriving team-building business he thoroughly enjoys in Sacramento. When his parents beg him to come back and run the family outdoor rentals business while his dad has surgery, Eli isn’t happy about returning to the town that didn’t love him, the dad he could never please, and the girl he’d left behind all those years ago.

When Whitney and Eli are paired together to create the decorations for the Main Street Fall Market, many of their old feelings resurface, along with new fun and excitement, but it also opens past wounds. Can this couple overcome the fears that are stopping them from giving their love the second chance it deserves? 

My review

Second Chance on the Corner of Main is a sweet and enjoyable book. Eli and Whitney are fantastic, but flawed characters. Each having issues they need to work out before they could move on with past hurts and wrongs. I loved their journeys and their realizations. Whitney was needing closure about her past with Eli, and Eli needing to forgive himself. I appreciated their communication. Yes, there is the inevitable conflicts that arise, but that what makes this book even more enjoyable. Eli had issues with his dad, Whitney had a hart time letting others in from feeling abandoned. The supporting characters are also great. Brooke especially was fun. I definitely want more from her. Maybe her and Ben (Eli's friend) need to get together some how! The town of Nestled Hollow would definitely be a place I would want to visit and live. The author's descriptions of it were well done and the whole feel of the town felt like home. 

5 out of 5 stars. 

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Sky Jumpers: The Forbidden Flats by Peggy Eddleman

Sky Jumpers: The Forbidden Flats

Author: Peggy Eddleman

Publisher: Random House

Published: September 23rd, 2014

ISBN: 978-0-307-98131-8

Hardcover: 262 pages

Middle grade fiction

FTC FYI: Borrowed a copy from the library, intend to purchase my own copy.

Goodreads Summary

Escape one danger. Jump into another. . . .

Twelve-year-old Hope has always felt a little different from everyone else who lives in White Rock. She tries hard, but she doesn’t always think before she acts. She takes big risks. Sometimes her risks pay off, but sometimes they fail. Sometimes she fails.

Hope knows that the most dangerous thing about living in White Rock is that it’s so close to the deadly Bomb’s Breath—the invisible, fifteen-foot-thick band of compressed air that’s hovered over the earth since the Green Bombs of World War III. The citizens of White Rock live in fear of the Bomb’s Breath. Only Hope has figured out a 

way to go through it—and lived to tell the tale.

But when a massive tremor rips across the earth, the Bomb’s Breath begins to lower over White Rock. It’s up to Hope and her friends Brock and Aaren to make the dangerous journey far from home across the bandit-ridden Forbidden Flats to the wilds of the Rocky Mountains to obtain the one thing that may be able to stop it—before the Bomb’s Breath sinks too far and destroys them all. This time, Hope can’t fail.

My Review

White Rock is in trouble once more, Hope and her town must find a way to save the them all.

Peggy Eddleman triumphs again with this enjoyable sequel.  I found myself reading and reading, and suddenly I was half way through.  Forbidden Flats reads fast, and just like the first one, has lots of action and heart.  This time Hope finds herself on a journey to save her town once again.  They are accompanied by a stranger, who seems familiar to Hope, but she can't place it.  Hope is my hero.  This girl is amazing.  I love her willingness to try anything and the way she jumps in and helps anyone at any time.  I love books where the main lead character is a strong girl, and the Sky Jumpers series is definitely at the top of my list of favorites.

5 out of 5 stars!  Need a last minute gift?  The Sky Jumpers series is it.

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Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman -- Review/Giveaway

Sky Jumpers

Author: Peggy Eddleman

Publisher: Random House Children's

Published: September 24th, 2013

ISBN13: 9780307981271

Hardcover: 288 pages

FTC FYI: Received a Netgalley copy from the publisher

Goodreads Summary

What happens when you can’t do the one thing that matters most?

12-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town struggling to recover from the green bombs of World War III. The bombs destroyed almost everything that came before, so the skill that matters most in White Rock—sometimes it feels like the only thing that matters—is the ability to invent so that the world can regain some of what it’s lost.

But Hope is terrible at inventing and would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath—the deadly band of air that covers the crater the town lives in—than fail at yet another invention.

When bandits discover that White Rock has invented priceless antibiotics, they invade. The town must choose whether to hand over the medicine and die from disease in the coming months or to die fighting the bandits now. Hope and her friends, Aaren and Brock, might be the only ones who can escape through the Bomb’s Breath and make the dangerous trek over the snow-covered mountain to get help.

For once, inventing isn’t the answer, but the daring and risk-taking that usually gets Hope into trouble might just save them all.

My Review

Sky Jumpers is another fine example of excellent middle grade fiction, which is becoming my favorite genre to read and review.  I was immediately drawn into White Rock with Hope and her friends and family.  Hope is an amazing character.  We meet her at the top of a cliff.  Ready to jump into danger.  The Bomb's Breath is a deadly gas left over from World War III that covers the crater White Rock is in.  She has been keeping this jumping from her family, knowing her parents would be terribly upset.  The bombings left almost nothing and invention is what keeps the them all going.  Hope strength is not in inventing, but what she discovers about herself and does for her town, saves them all.

5 out of 5 stars.  Sky Jumpers is an amazing story with enjoyable characters and a very clever plot that will keep you turning pages quickly.  This book is one that you can read along with your children and enjoy it as much as they will.

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