⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 stars
I really enjoy Jenny Proctor’s writing, and honestly, I like her as a person even more, so I’m always happy to pick up one of her books. Here We Go Again wasn’t one of my favorites from her, but there was still quite a bit here that I enjoyed.
This is another romance set around the Atlanta hockey team we met in the previous book. That story focused on Carter Williamson, while this one follows his twin brother, Theo, and his high school girlfriend, Becca.
Becca is now a travel nurse who takes a contract in Atlanta with her best friend, Mia, putting her back in Theo’s orbit years after their relationship ended. Theo, meanwhile, is a professional hockey player working his way back from a hand injury. Naturally, old feelings start resurfacing.
One of my favorite parts of this book was actually Becca and Mia’s friendship. I love a female main character who is truly a girls’ girl, and Bekah is such a supportive, loving friend. I also adored the fact that Becca and Theo’s moms play pickleball together. 😂 There are lots of sweet little details like that throughout the story.
Second-chance romance can be tricky for me because the original breakup has to be something I can believe the couple can—and should—come back from. There were a few aspects of Theo and Becca’s breakup and what happened afterward that gave me pause, and I never completely got past them.
I also had some complicated feelings about the way sex and intimacy were discussed. I genuinely appreciate low-spice and closed-door romance, and I certainly don’t need explicit scenes for a relationship to feel romantic. But occasionally, books at this end of the romance spectrum can swing so far in the opposite direction that sex begins to carry an enormous amount of moral or emotional weight.
For me, some of the messaging here edged a little too close to purity-culture ideas that can equate a person’s sexuality with their worth or make physical intimacy feel like the defining measure of a relationship. That’s something I’m personally sensitive to, and it made parts of Theo and Becca’s relationship harder for me to connect with.
That said, their relationship is portrayed as very respectful, and I think plenty of readers will feel completely differently about the elements that bothered me. If you love second-chance romance, hockey romance, and sweet/closed-door love stories, this could absolutely be a winner for you.
There was a lot to like here, and while it wasn’t one of my favorite Jenny Proctor books, I’m still glad I read it—and I’ll definitely continue reading her work.
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