Book Review: The Second Home by Christina Clancy

Release Date: June 2, 2020

Rating: 5/5

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this early in exchange for an honest review.

**Please be aware before reading this book that there are triggers for rape and suicide.**

The Second Home presents as your typical summer contemporary. Family death, children are tasked with selling the beach home but they had a falling out. In reality, this book is much more than that.

It takes us through the loss of parents and the aftermath of what happens when a family is torn apart. We get multiple perspectives from all three siblings through a multi-year timeline. We start in present day, where Ann has taken on the task of selling the beach house while her sister Poppy, is selling their family home in Minnesota. We are then taken back to 1999; the year the family adopted Michael and the summer that everything changed. By the end of the book it feels like you've lived a lifetime with this family. You experience their highs and lows, their heartbreak and loss.

I highly recommend that everyone pick up this book when it is released, as it's a story that has so much heart and love, and it really makes you a part of the family.