Reviewed by Racheal
TITLE: Second Helpings
AUTHOR: Brandon Witts
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 110 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 8, 2020
BLURB:
After escaping to New York City and building a successful career, food blogger Isaac Reynolds returns to his small Ozark hometown for his twenty-year high school reunion. But old ghosts and a charged family history surrounding his mixed-race identity emerge to threaten the emotional safety that time and distance once provided.
Grant Atkins never expected his long-lost love to make an appearance at the reunion—or to step foot in their hometown, for that matter—not after two decades in the big city. But the flames Isaac inspired in Grant have yet to cool, and while part of Grant wants to shove the past aside and live for the moment, the other part screams out a warning that the risk might shatter his heart and the peace he has finally found.
As Isaac explores the memories and flavors of childhood, he realizes what his soul has been craving all this time… And a second chance might be just within Grant’s reach.
(This novella contains 23,000 words and three recipes.)
REVIEW:
Author Brandon Witt is definitely a writer of a variety of genres that I love to read. From angst, friends to lovers, tear of joys to tears of sorrow. To the trails of injustices to cheers of triumph. Regardless, if the stories are novellas or full lengths, I am always left feeling impacted by his stories.
That is exactly, how I felt after reading Second Helpings. A powerful story of two men coming together 20 years later. One determined to show the small town full of small minded people just what he had made of himself. That their racist comments, snickers behind his back, meant nothing to him. That when he left this town 20 years ago he left them behind. He made a name for himself. Isaac Reynolds is back and at his high school reunion, not the same skinny black kid but not grown and built man. Nothing has changed not the music or the food.
Grant Atkins had always liked Isaac Reynolds, so seeing him at the reunion was finally his chance but nerves and insert foot was just his luck when he first approached Isaac. The chemistry was off the charts from the moment these two character’s connected and it was fascinating how compatible they were from the start.
Both men have changed so much from when they were boys, and as men they connect again and although, they definitely come from different culture worlds and ways of living what neither can deny is that soul bond they feel when they are together.
With Grant’s country cooking and Isaac’s New York swag these two will have you swooning in a New York minute!
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