Second Chance Boyfriend: A Novel (One Week Girlfriend, #2)

by Monica Murphy

From breakout author Monica Murphy comes the exhilarating conclusion to Drew and Fable’s story—the star-crossed young romance that began in One Week Girlfriend.
 
Lost. Everything in my life can be summed up by that one sickening word. My football coach blames me for our season-ending losses. So does the rest of the team. I wasted two whole months drowning in my own despair, like a complete loser. And I lost my girlfriend—Fable Maguire, the only girl who ever mattered—because I was afraid that being with me would only hurt her.
 
But now I realize that I’m the one who’s truly lost without her. And even though she acts like she’s moved on and everything’s fine, I know she still thinks about me just as much as I think about her. I know her too well. She’s so damn vulnerable, all I want to do is be there to help her . . . to hold her . . . to love her.
 
I just need her to give me one more chance. We may be lost without each other, but together, we’re destined to find a love that lasts forever.

• ISBN10: 0804176795
• ISBN13: 9780804176798
• Publish Date: 5 November 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780804176798

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

And the story continues.

This book picks up two months after Drew left Fable. Their worlds collide again, and both of them realize how much they need the other. BUT that is not where this story ends. There is a lot of other stuff going on. Stuff that indirectly impacts Fable and Drew's relationship -- Fable's past, Drew's past, Drew's insane step-mother, Fable's emotionally unstable mom -- all of these things got in the way of their relationship the first time. In this book, lots of stuff involving all those things and people occur and the two of them face all their problems head-on and begin to deal with them and heal.

I liked this book. We really got a better look at Fable and her strength and character, which was only touched upon in book 1. We also get to see what a hopeless romantic Drew is and how both Drew and Fable are so ingrained in the other's life. Love them together!!

[Leah]

When I read Monica Murphy’s novel One Week Girlfriend I was blown away – I loved it so much! It was a wonderful enjoyable novel and I adored the relationship between Fable and Drew even if it was meant to be fake. I felt they were destined to meet, and despite all their issues I really did root for the pair of them because they definitely deserved a chance at happiness. So it was fair to say that as soon as I’d finished the book I would go and download the second one Second Chance Girlfriend.

Second Chance Girlfriend picks up a little way after One Week Girlfriend, we find out from Fable that Drew hasn’t been in touch, and we find out from Drew that he’s trying to sort his life out, and has even gone to see a therapist. When Fable gets a new job at The District, the last thing she expects is for Drew to show his face but she’s not overly surprised. The two fall back into a relationship, but are they both ready to take on everything the other person needs from them?

If I’m going to be totally honest, I felt like Second Chance Boyfriend was filler. I didn’t feel there was really a plot to the novel other than Drew and Fable taking their clothes off a lot. I would personally have just added this novel to the first and used it that way because there was no real plot, except for Fable and Drews relationship. I enjoyed the novel for what it was, but I just wanted more from it I suppose. There was a bit near the end where Adele returned but anything that ever features Adele is always quite farfetched.

Overall I liked the novel, I think it would have worked better as an add on to the first book, or a novella, but it wraps up Fable and Drew’s story and I liked that because the first novel did not do that. I still love the characters, flawed and all. They’re really easy to love because they are so flawed and you do just want to see them happy so I was quite glad of the ending. I’m looking forward to see what the third book offers, and I love that Monica plans to give Owen his own story at some point – I’d totally be up for reading that, as even at 14, Owen is fascinating.

[Cocktails and Books]

4.5 Stars

I was lucky enough to be able to go from SEVEN DAY GIRLFRIEND right into this one. It definitely helped because I was still emotionally charged after finishing SDG and was able to get the emotional closure I needed after the crap these two had to deal with.

SECOND CHANCE GIRLFRIEND picks up a few months after the end of SDG. Drew and Fable are both trying to get their lives back on track. For Fable, that means getting a new job and finding a better place for her brother and herself. For Drew, it's counseling and focusing on learning how to move forward. But for both of them, finding a better place and moving forward means learning how to support each other through the good and the bad.

This was an exceptionally hard read, because the depth of what Drew went through and just how sick Step Mommy Dearest was comes out. But then there is Fable's "relationship" with her mother and just how little the woman cares for either of her children. You go from one extreme to another with both sets of parents and it makes you wonder just how Fable or Drew manage to get out of bed everyday.

But what I loved most about this story was how Drew and Fable learned how to lean on each other. They'd never had anyone they could share all the bad stuff with, so it took a bit for both of them to figure out just how to do it. But when they did, they found the two of them together were so much stronger and could deal with just about anything that came their way.

I loved, loved, loved this series, but especially this book. Monica Murphy is now on my must read list.