Reviewed by True
TITLE: Second Winter
AUTHOR: Sophia Soames
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 227 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 15, 2024
BLURB:
Ten years ago, Ned Anderson made the biggest mistake of his life.
Now he’s been invited to go back to Sweden for his exchange-year high school reunion. It’s a chance to reunite with all the people he once considered friends, and the invite promises a charcuterie board, open bar, all that…crap.
The biggest mistake of his life was leaving, and if he went back…
Does he even want to?
Teddy Backman has become exactly what everyone expected of him. He runs his farm the way his father once did. Gets up in the morning and gets things done. Tries to remember what’s next. Wonders why he feels so violently lonely when he’s surrounded by so many good things. The sun. The sky. The earth. The trees. All the trees.
He’s already deleted that email—the one inviting him to someone’s idea of a joke. There’s no one from back then he’s interested in talking to, let alone drinking or, God forbid, dancing with.
A high school reunion is Teddy’s idea of a nightmare, and he probably shouldn’t let anyone drag him along. He’ll only regret it.
But what’s the point of regret in the grander scale of things? It’s not like Ned Anderson’s going to turn up, is it? The guy who fled straight back to Arizona without even a last longing glance.
Second Winter is the story of something that was always there. A second chance at happiness in the last place you’d expect to find it.
This book is a standalone contemporary M/M romance with a HEA, dealing with the death of a loved one and the grief that follows. Please read with care if these topics could affect you.
REVIEW:
Ned isn’t happy, just tired, tired of life, his job, just everything. Living in Phoenix is enormously different than Sweden. It’s been ten years since he left. And here he is with a Swedish school reunion invitation in his hand. He should throw it away.
Teddy is a Landowner, a Swedish farmer, a lonely man, living in an empty house by himself, the house where his dad passed away. Teddy sits with the same invitation in his hand, he should burn it.
Ned and Teddy had something together, it goes deep, even you’d think, as an outsider, it’s just a one-time thing.
No way, it was so much more.
After the reunion Ned returning to the States, you wanna know his next step…?
He packed his belongings, called his aunt, and returned to stay.
‘Home’
It was an extraordinary experience the way they (finally) came together.
Two lonely beautiful souls, who got their shot to a warm and loving forever, my heart they were precious!
“He wasn’t a naturally cheerful man. More…careful, restrained. Grumpy? Nah. He was cute. Shy Teddy. Mine.”
“I need you to help me reclaim this place,” Utterly precious!
These two, my heart be still, they deserved the world and certainly each other!!
This was such a delicate intimate narrative, the reconnection, the grief, the struggle, the environments, the friends and family, and the tons of details, memories, and all the utterly precious moments we can enjoy made this a more than beautiful story.
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