Formula Chance (Race Fever #2)
Sawyer Bennett
In the second book of New York Times Bestselling Author Sawyer Bennett’s Race Fever series, she turns up the heat when a familiar name looks to shake up the world of formula racing. Buckle up for this heart stopping, second chance ride in Formula Chance. Nash Sinclair abandoned the world of formula racing after a deadly crash left him injured and on a long road to recovery, both physically and mentally. Even prior to the crash Nash was healing in another way, putting together the pieces of a broken heart. They say time heals all wounds and when Brienne Norcross, owner of the newly acquired Titans Racing team approaches him about a job, he decides it might just be time to reclaim the life he once loved. Bexley Toliver just joined the Titans’ team as their chief race strategy engineer. As a woman working in a male-centric sport, Bex is no stranger to a man’s eyes on her. Whether it’s in silent awe, not-so-silent disgust, or somewhere in between, Bexley has earned her way. But there is one set of eyes that Bex hasn’t seen in years and when Nash Sinclair walks into the conference room for a team meeting, old memories are hard to ignore. As the heat between them becomes all-consuming, they are unable to resist the temptation to fall once again. Bex and Nash’s history is…complicated. Young love that turned into the promise of forever crashed and burned long before the race that ended Nash’s career. Years apart dulled the pain of their failed union but some things aren’t meant to be forgotten, no matter how hard one tries. When the same issues that broke them apart re-emerge and spin them full-speed toward a barricade, Bex and Nash need to make a decision—hit the brakes and walk away or race forward to their happily ever after.
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4.5 stars
I’m really digging the world-building that is going into this series. While I felt the first book did a lot of heavy lifting getting readers unfamiliar with Formula Racing, somehow this book seemed to do even more. Don’t let that scare you away. The author gives enough information to fascinate me with all that goes into racing without making things dull or confusing. Seriously, I do not watch any type of racing and I’m not wanting to watch a race. Bex’s job in this book is something I never even fathomed.
This is a second-chance romance; Bex and Nash were engaged in the past and she called off the engagement over three years ago. Shortly after their breakup, Nash had a terrible accident while racing and took himself away from FI racing after his recovery. He’s still racing but hasn’t gone back up to race with the “big dogs”, so to speak. In steps Brienne Norcross, the heiress from the Pittsburgh Titans series, to offer Nash an opportunity. Little does he know his ex-fiance is working for the Titan’s racing team in a coveted position, the first female to do so.
As Nash and Bex realize they will have to learn to work together if they want to keep the opportunities that were given to them, they also feel they have to have a frank talk. There was never any discussion after the breakup and the air needs to be cleared. It’s obvious they loved each other deeply but were too immature for the relationship they were in with the place they were in life three years ago. They’ve both learned a lot and grown a lot. They quickly become each other’s biggest cheerleader, with good reason. Their positions were earned with hard work and dedication.
As much as I loved the romance between Bex and Nash, my favorite thing about this story is Bex’s struggle with being the only woman in a male-dominated field. The tightrope she has to walk to assert herself and get the men around her to listen to her is unreal…yet oh so real. For the most part, Bex handles it all like a champ, yet there are some missteps along the way that I, for one, couldn’t blame her for. She is still young and in an almost impossible situation. I love the support Nash gives and how, most of the time, he keeps himself in check knowing that his “sticking up” for Bex will only undermine her authority.
I have fallen in love with the women and men in this series. Well, other than the sexist jerks. There are so many angles still to be played and I have a feeling it’s going to be a lot of fun.
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