Hello and happy Sunday. If you’ve been following me for a while now, then you’ve probably noticed that I do most of my reading when I’m on vacation, which I think happens to most readers, so it’s not really a great discovery. I am currently on spring break and will be until the end of March, and usually when I’m on vacation it takes me between one and two days to finish a book, which means that you’ll be getting consistent reviews throughout the following week, or this week, if you’re one of those people who believes weeks start on Sunday.

Yesterday, I finished reading Lucky in Love by Kasie West, and I was excited because this review is also going to be a part of the Do they hold up? challenge that I started a while back. For some reason, however, back then I did not add Lucky in Love to the list of Kasie West’s titles I hadn’t read and it felt wrong just sneaking it in there almost a year after publishing the original post.

In this novel we follow Maddie, who is an overachiever at school and who feels the need to be in control of everything, including her parents’ marriage and her older brothers’ emotional stability. We all know someone like that, and if we don’t, we probably are that someone. This situation gets magnified when Maddie wins the lottery after buying a ticket on her eighteenth birthday and becoming a multimillionaire. The only person who still treats her like a human and not an ATM is Seth, whom she works with at the zoo.

I think you can tell by the synopsis that the stakes in this book are much higher than in other Kasie West novels. I could be wrong, but I also think this is the first novel I’ve read from this author in which the characters are over eighteen years old, which needed to happen for the plot to make sense. Now, ageing up her characters a bit didn’t do anything in terms of what they did; like in all of the Kasie West books I’ve read so far, all we got was a hug and a kiss.

It was all in all, still an entertaining book, although it’s perhaps the first one from this author in which I wasn’t totally satisfied with the ending and would’ve appreciated an epilogue, considering the characters were seniors and were going to study in different cities. All I’m saying is, it would be awesome to have a “where are they now”? situation, or even to have these characters appear in other novels, like Rainbow Rowell enjoys doing.