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Review Blitz: The Long Way Found (Calder Ridge #1) by CJ Chambers


THE LONG WAY FOUND
CJ Chambers
Release Date: August 13

Buy Link:
https://a.co/d/0aTMyuBM
Available in KU

Why you need to #ONECLICK this book...
🔥Second Chance
🔥Small Town
🔥Retired Military MMC
🔥Steamy MM Romance
🔥Return to Hometown
🔥First Loves


Blurb
Two decades ago, Jack Garrison boarded a plane for West Point and left Luke Calder behind.

Luke stopped waiting. Eventually.

Now, as he approaches forty, Luke has built a life he loves in Calder Ridge, the Colorado mountain town he's always called home. The past is finally where it belongs.

Then Jack comes back.

After a decorated Army career, a failed marriage, and a lifetime spent wondering about the boy he left behind, Jack plans only a brief stop.

Everything changes when he sees Luke again. Confident. Stronger. Somehow even more handsome than Jack remembered.

Their attraction flares to life again, but desire is the easy part. Heartache and distrust don't disappear overnight. What happens when the boys who lost each other grow into men who finally have a chance to get it right?

Some first loves fade into the past. But some are worth taking the long way to find again.

MY REVIEW

The last person Luke expected to walk into his gym is Jack, his high school sweetheart, who left him over 20 years ago and never came back. He figures Jack isn't going to stick around, and really has no plans on a sweet reunion. But just maybe Jack is tired of the life he left Luke for, and wants a second chance. Will Luke give him that second chance?


Luke and Jack's second chance is sweet. I admit to not really connecting to Jack, but I really like Luke, his sweet nature and his maturity. Second chance stories to be successful in my eyes must have characters that not only really work for their second chance, but deserve that chance. I think Luke was the one who did the most work and wanted it the most, Jack maybe not so much. I don't like that he ghosted Luke for so long and yet those 20 years not much detail was given about them or if that time was spent doing things that were worthy of him leaving Luke for. So though I can't say I connected to Jack, Luke makes up for him, and the story itself is sweet and low angst.


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