Stealing Chances (A Taking Chances Alternate Universe)
Molly McAdams
September 5, 2022
What would you do if you woke up to a different life?
Because that’s what happened to me.
Woke up in a hospital bed with my family and friends telling me everything I knew was nothing more than a coma-induced dream.
The girl I love. The baby we’re having . . . all of it ripped away.
In their place is a house I don’t recognize and a girl I’ve never seen before who’s claiming she’s my fiancée.
To everyone around me, it’s clear my mind twisted around my real life to create a false one. As weeks pass and a few crucial memories return, it’s easy to see they’re right. Now I’m terrified about what I’ll learn next.
The last thing I remember before waking up in the hospital was losing the girl I loved and breaking her heart. Even though it’s the one thing no one can connect to my real life, it’s the one thing I can feel is true.
But I’ve just started falling in love with my fiancée all over again, and I’ll do anything to keep that memory from turning into my reality
Please please read at your own risk as this is an alternate universe of Chase’s life from Taking Chances and Stealing Harper. This review will have spoilers in it for those two books and as always, you can read this as a stand-alone but my recommendation is to be ripped apart first.
Chase freakin’ Grayson is back.
I never ever thought that we would get to read about Chase again, considering everything that happened with him and Harper in Taking Chances and reading his devastating fate at the end of Stealing Harper. But y’all, when I tell you I opened Facebook and saw that Molly surprise released Stealing Chances and that it was Chase, back from the dead and living a different life than we all saw? I quite literally, in the middle of a regular conversation with my sister, yelled out “no the fuck she did not!” And immediately one clicked it.
Let me tell y’all from my perspective, Molly did not disappoint me. I know a lot of people are probably upset about this release given the way we all suffered over chapter 13, but I devoured this book and think it’s absolute perfection. If you’ve read Taking Chances, then you know the tragic way that Chase dies, which means you also sobbed your way through the ending of Stealing Harper.
When Chase wakes up disoriented and in immense pain, in a hospital bed, what he thought was the life he was so very close to leaving, is not his life at all. The girl claiming to be his fiancé is not the one from his coma-induced memories, and the one who he thought he loved? She’s married to his best friend, someone who he considers his brother. The memories he has of everyone else? They’re from that time, two years ago. The first thing he says to his sister is about her hair being different. Luckily, he remembers his friends and family, just not the woman he was planning to spend the rest of his life with.
Part of the mystery of this story is wondering what it was Chase was doing right before the accident that should have killed him. Did he cheat on the woman he’s slowly falling back in love with? Did he do the things he’s remembering piece by piece? And when the person banging on the glass in his head finally breaks it, will what he finds out wreck him to the core?
To say this is one of the books I’d recommend to anyone is not a lie. I sometimes talk to random strangers and end up handing them pieces of scrap paper with a list of my favorite authors and Molly is always on that list. Seriously, one click this book right now, but if you want the full effect that the rest of us got? Buy Taking Chances and Stealing Harper first, along with a box or five of tissues.
Molly grew up in California but now lives in the oh-so-amazing state of Texas with her husband, daughter, and fur baby. When she’s not diving into the world of her characters, some of her hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and long walks on the beach … which roughly translates to being a homebody with her hubby and dishing out movie quotes. She has a weakness for crude-humored movies and fried pickles, and loves curling up in a fluffy comforter during a thunderstorm … or under one in a bathtub if there are tornado’s. That way she can pretend they aren’t really happening.
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