Take a Chance on Me - Kaylee Baldwin

Date of Reading: 28/04/2018

Author: Kaylee Baldwin

Year of Publication: 2018

From: I Am A Reader in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

About the book:

Madelyn Stewart knows how to have fun, no matter what her ex-husband claims, but between working two jobs and taking care of her five-year-old son, opportunities for fun are few and far between. So when she is given tickets to take her son to see a live taping of the MyHeartChannel show Take a Chance, they go, even though it means she’ll have to stay up all night to turn in her latest article on time. To her shock, the daredevil star, Chance Risk, is none other than Graham Sawyer, the quiet accounting major she’d dated in college—someone she’d cowardly broken up with by note and hoped to never see again. When she makes a major mistake in her article, she has to swallow her embarrassment and reach out to Chance for an exclusive or risk losing her job. 

Chance Risk doesn’t talk to reporters. Not after the way he’s seen them destroy his brother’s marriage and career. But Take a Chance is starting to lose viewers, he’s desperate. Despite his better judgement, when Madelyn reaches out, he can’t resist the opening to figure out why she broke his heart eight years before. His only condition: she has to come to three filming locations with him and his crew to get a real sense of what the show is about. 

Swept up in adventure, they start to feel the chemistry from college rekindling. But the reason Madelyn left eight years before still looms between them. If Chance can’t convince Madelyn to take a chance on love, she’ll walk away again. This time forever. 

My Review:

       I was entranced by Baldwin's writing style from the start; honestly, I do love novels with lots of dialogues. Apart from that, this is a quick, fun clean romance that leaves you with a happy glow once finished.
        Madelyn is not a typical heroine you can easily associate with. She is fiercely independent and to me, it looked a lot like false pride. But there is no way of hating her, she is too lovely at the same time. Chance, on the other hand, is the polar opposite. He is caring, protective (but not possessive) and every girl's dream come true. Unsurprisingly, I was completely against Madelyn for breaking his heart in the past. 
        But like all other love stories, this one too ends well. Isn't that what matters the most? It is cute how they reconcile their respective stations. Oh, I almost forgot! We can't help but love Oliver, Madelyn's kid. True, this is not a movie and we can't see him for real. All the same, once we put down the book, thanks to Baldwin's writing, we feel they are all part of us.

Meet the author:

A glamorous day in the life of Kaylee Baldwin includes: chasing after her four children, checking for a new season of Serial, writing her latest book, binge-watching reality cooking shows, hanging out with her husband, and reading in every spare second she can find. She graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in English lit and currently lives in southern Arizona with her family. 

Her books include the Whitney Finalist Meg’s Melody, Hearts in Peril, a story in the Timeless Romance Anthology: California Dreamin’ which was recently translated into Norwegian, and Take a Chance on Me. You can follow her on Instagram @KayleeBaldwin1 (Courtesy: Amazon Kaylee Baldwin page)