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You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

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the_vegan_bookworm's review

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emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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pgt's review

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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yulia's review against another edition

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hopeful sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A perfectly good romance, but it was a bit of a miss for me. It felt a bit flat, there was no suspense or conflict that didn't resolve very fast. 
I really liked the characters though, they had very distinct and interesting personalities. 
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alwaysshure's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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samchase112's review

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hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Oh, this was just lovely! Sad, hopeful, and tender, it felt like a warm sweater and a mug of tea, and the perfect distraction from everything going on in the world America right now. I should mention that I LOVE BASEBALL — and not only did this book capture that world so well, but I also felt like I was living in 20th century New York City, surrounded by queer and straight people just trying their best to get by. And as a fellow emotionally-closed-off semi-academic, Mark's character hit quite close to home. GODS this was really good, and will soon be joining my growing collection of books on grief. Beautiful and comforting, this might be my favorite thing Cat Sebastian has ever done.
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maggiefae's review against another edition

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emotional funny medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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carla20's review

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emotional funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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jazhandz's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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rondasue27's review

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emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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nere's review

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lighthearted
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

11 november 2024
for “we could be so good” I feel like I had a more immediate sense throughout the book of who the characters were. I understood their motivations, their internal conflicts I sympathized with them.

I think “you should be so lucky” takes a little bit longer to get there. which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. but it does mean that it takes longer to sell me on the romance since I’m not as invested in the characters.
eddie
, in particular, was a particularly hard sell for me. he’s framed from the jump as a “himbo with a heart of gold” which is generally an easily loveable character for me (see: stranger things steve harrington and 911 evan buckley) but they’re also really easy to get wrong. he, unfortunately, tips a little bit into the wrong column even if only because ik cat sebastian is capable of better.

something that is captured so compellingly in this is
grieving your partner when no one knows you’re grieving your partner
. its such a specific type of heartbreaking thats unique to queer experience. theres also something so tender in recognizing that in someone else like george does to mark insofar as kind of tipping a hat to their shared experience as
widowers
. and the cherry mariscino part when
mark suddenly breaks down in the kitchen after not having cried for months
. that feels very real

petition for cat sebastian to get better titles though. what the hell is “you should be so lucky” and “we could be so good” i can’t even think of how those phrases even relate to the STORY. 

the cat sebastian books that i’ve read so far are always full of so much heart you can almost forgive it for its wrongdoings.

“Maybe Mark is wrong. Maybe this swing will slip away from Eddie, or maybe it will settle into something just above marginal, something good enough but never great. He knows better than to count on good things lasting. But when he watches Eddie—when he sees that stern set of his jaw, and when Eddie flashes a grin toward the bleachers—Mark thinks he’s seeing something that’s for keeps.”
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