Desperate Chances by A. Meredith Walters Review

5 Smooches

Synopsis

Sex changes everything.

And love can turn into an enemy…

Mitch Abrams, the bassist for the popular rock band Generation Rejects, has been in love with Gracie Cook for years. But Gracie, a complicated girl with a lot of baggage, was too blind to see how she felt about the man who had always stood by her.

Until one night of passion brought them closer than they had ever been before.

Feeling off balance and out of control, Gracie does the only thing a girl with self-destructive tendencies can do: end things with Mitch before they can really begin.

So Mitch moves on. With his band, his friends, and a new girlfriend.

Yet he can’t seem to forget about the girl who threw his heart away.

Gracie, who is still struggling to build a life after crashing to the bottom, finds it hard to forget about her one night with Mitch. And even as she tries to convince herself it was only sex, her heart knows differently.

But life is full of chances and desperate moments. And when Mitch and Gracie are thrown back into each other’s lives, will they seize at the opportunity to do things right?

Or will the rock star and the less than ordinary girl crash and burn?

Review

‘But I knew one thing for certain. Our friendship was over. Even worse was that the second he walked away I knew that I had lost something so much more. I had lost my heart.’

Desperate Chances is a book I have been very eagerly awaiting. The fourth book in the Bad Rep series we not only get the story of two characters I have loved since meeting them in the first book, Gracie and Mitch but we also get tidbits and wrap ups of the other three couples. While this could easily and enjoyably be read as a standalone you will find a extra layer and depth to these two characters if you have read the other three books as well.

‘I missed Gracie and Mitch. Mitch and Gracie. The two people who had been friends first and lovers later. We hadn’t always been healthy or functional, but we were an us. And that mattered more than anything else.’

Gracie is a recovering alcoholic and anorexic who up until a year ago was surviving with the help of her best friend, Mitch. One heat filled night of passion led her to question everything and ultimately push the one person who knew her best and loved her the most away. Mitch has loved Gracie since meeting her but between her recovery and learning to survive the hectic chaos of band life he had gotten placed in a friend zone. The two were as close as two friends could be but now after their one night of passion they haven’t spoken in a year and both are still just struggling to survive. Mitch has moved on and has a new girlfriend, Sophie and Gracie realized all too late that all she wants and needs in life is Mitch.

‘Gracie Cook made me feel out of control. She made me feel wild and crazy. She was the drug I couldn’t get enough of. And going cold turkey had been the only way to survive.’

 Mitch and Gracie’s story was a hard one but oh so satisfying. A friends to lovers story with so much heart and soul I found myself constantly overcome with emotion for these two while they struggled and miscommunication their way back to reconciliation. Hearts are broken and people get hurt. This is not a book where everyone gets out free from scars but the end is like a satisfying drink of water when you are parched. Still filled with the humor and quirky cast of characters we have all come to love with the series to help balance out this very emotional read , I loved every second of Desperate Chances.

“This is what it felt like to be on fire. To be consumed from the inside out.”

I am so sad to see this series end but don’t think I could have imaged a better way to wrap it all up. Gracie grabbed my heart in the first book and to see her finally get her HEA was so satisfying. The series as a whole is one I highly recommend to any New Adult lover. A. Meredith Walters is a phenomenal writer and I will forever devour anything she puts out.

~miranda

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