The Second Chance Hotel
A Novel
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Lose yourself in the ultimate romantic escape—where an accidental marriage, a crumbling Greek hotel, and a summer of second chances await.
Amelia Lang’s life has officially hit rock bottom. Fired from her job, estranged from her best friend, and stuck living with her overbearing mother, she books a one-way ticket to a remote Greek island—hoping to heal, hide, and figure out what’s next.
But when a wild night ends with a surprise wedding to James, a fellow hotel guest she barely knows, Amelia wakes up to the kind of trouble you can’t just run away from. Their reward? A run-down seaside hotel neither of them wants and a summer-long pact to keep the doors open for the beloved locals who depend on it.
As Amelia and James navigate impossible guests, crumbling walls, and their own tangled hearts, the boundaries between “accidental partners” and something more begin to blur. But Amelia is certain her real life is waiting back in San Francisco. Is it time for her to return home or could this be the second chance at a new life she didn’t know she wanted?
Customer Reviews
3.5stars-entertaining but slow to build
3.5 stars-THE SECOND CHANCE HOTEL by Sierra Godfrey is a contemporary, adult, story line focusing on two Americans caught up in an accidental marriage while travelling through Greece.
Told from omniscient third person perspective (Amelia) THE SECOND CHANCE HOTEL follows thirty-two year old American Amelia Lang in the aftermath of having her work sabotaged, an aggressive retaliation against her ex boyfriend, being fired from a job she didn’t love, and jumping a plane to Europe to escape the upheaval at home. Three months later, Amelia Lang arrives in Greece, to the same hotel where her parents honeymooned but a hotel that has seen much better days. Meeting one other guest, fellow American James, who was also struggling with his direction in life, resulted in an unplanned and surprise drunken wedding, and the receipt of the hotel as a wedding gift in the wake of the death of the current owner. Unable to speak or understand the language, our couple find themselves struggling with the culture, the rules and regulations of running a hotel, a determined land developer, and battling a greedy member of the hotel owner’s family but with the help of some locals, Amelia and James find success where they least expected.
THE SECOND CHANCE HOTEL reads like a cross between Mama Mia ™ and My Big Fat Greek Wedding™ with all of the craziness of a large extended family you never knew you had. The world building focuses on the marriage between Amelia and James, a marriage that James is often quick to remind Amelia is fake, a marriage that struggles with jealousy, a lack of commitment, and a definite lack of romance. The premise is entertaining but slow to build-in the early chapters there was more telling than showing; the characters are numerous, quirky and sassy; the romance is limited as the couple battle their feelings and emotions; there is one lone $ex scene near the end of the book.