Second Destiny,The older generation broke them apart, the younger generation reunites them, Gloria Silk
Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
Genre: General fiction (adult) , Romance

I thought this sounded interesting, conflict of religions, conflict of career v relationship, and then Lia's daughter falls in love with Devraj' nephew Sanjay, and its the race/religion issue all over again. 

Times change though and Lia's daughter Danielle is determined to stand up for her love. She's the same age as Lia was when she fell in love with Devraj, but very different in strength, outlook, confidence.
Lia's brought her up sure of her own worth, whereas she was only of value to her family for the marriage she could make, not herself, her art, just a woman to be married off to the right man, the one the family chose, not the one she loved.
Its kind of easy to say she should have been stronger, but if you aren't brought up to express your own feelings, push for your own way, know your own value then its hard to go against family pressure. 
Lia's a grown woman now though and she frustrated me, she's still faffing about, not sure of what she wants and I just didn't see what reasons she had to push Devraj away as she did. She's still in love with him, she can have her newly fledged career and him, but she seems to think its an either/or situation, and I don't see where that comes from. 

I loved Danielle and Sanjay - very much in love, very determined to stay together. They have a real maturity about them that they'll need, given the families opposition. Danielle's dad is a typical misogynistic guy, men have all the answers, women are there for men's convenience. He only pays lip service to his religion too - sadly there's many like that, outwardly devoted to whatever religion, while actually ignoring all the tenants of it. 
Gabe, Danielle's younger brother was a great kid and felt very real, I liked his parts in the story. 

Devraj, I understood his bitterness at Lia, but didn't see where this antagonistic view of Danielle was coming from. He seemed the last person to me to object, if his nephew was happy, but at first he was so determined to split them up - then he does a complete turnaround, and that just didn't feel real, didn't sit right with me. 

The story itself is a mix of Danielle and Sanjay, Lia and Devraj, and plods along gently, but without any real plots IMO. I felt it was filling pages much of the time rather than telling a story. I didn't feel the drama, didn't feel the situations were real, and that coloured my whole view of the romance(s).
The slightly clunky addition to the title sums up the way the novel felt to me, potentially great but for me too dated and bland, a lot like reading a 70's M&B novel - millions of readers love them, and I'm happy for them, but they're not for me. 
 
Stars: Two and a half, sounded really interesting, there were a few good bits but mostly too bland for me. 

ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers

I couldn't bring myself to like either character. In my mind, there is a reason they didn't work out in the beginning and neither of them grew up!

Gloria Silk did a good job of setting the stage for this love story. Lia and Devraj are madly in love as teenagers. However their different cultures and the elders of their family break them
apart. Fast forward 19 years and they are thrown together again by Danielle and Sanjay a couple in the midst of their own love story. The couple had their share of ups and downs. In the end love triumphed
I received an advance reader copy from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

I liked the idea of reading about a different culture to the genre I usually read.
I like second chance romance but I found Devraj and Lia frustrating.
She is stubborn and doesn't want to give up her independence but he is not listening to some of the things she says also.
I actually thought they may have been better off living without each other.