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Liesl's avatar

I adore second chance! It's one of my favorite tropes. I love seeing how characters learn from the mistakes and difficult experiences of their past to create something unbreakable. If done right, the ending feels so right and earned.

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Regina Black's avatar

Yes! This is everything I love about it too.

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Natalie Kikić's avatar

I love second chance romances. One of my favorite examples is the movie Last Night, which I think wasn't very popular, but it definitely stuck with me. Also love Past Lives!

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Regina Black's avatar

Is it the movie with Keira Knightley? Past Lives is an objectively perfect film.

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Natalie Kikić's avatar

Yes!

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Natalie Kikić's avatar

Also the movie Conversations with Other Women!

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Regina Black's avatar

I haven't seen this one! Putting it on my list!

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Taj McCoy's avatar

My absolutely fave, as you know! It’s that hope in the face of all that has transpired that gets me every time. 🥰

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Regina Black's avatar

Every time!

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Dede Stewart's avatar

I love a second chance romance so bad!! You articulated this so so well! I actually didn’t used to like it before, but I read before I let go by Kennedy Ryan and I fell in love with it for all the reasons you said 🤍loved this post!

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Regina Black's avatar

Kennedy set the standard with that book. I plan on doing a newsletter about marriage in romance, and will definitely be dissecting that one.

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DL White-Romantic Fiction's avatar

I also love a second chance romance!

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Regina Black's avatar

It’s such a top tier trope!

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Megan Clark's avatar

I love second chance so much!

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Regina Black's avatar

It’s my all time favorite ❤️

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Megan Clark's avatar

Me too! I have to make my brain come up with other plots. 😂

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