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witchylevy's review
5.0
Of course Merit just has to stumble upon one of the more dangerous vacations here. She's like a magnet haha. This was a very sad installment in the series, but was heartbreaking and sentimental too. I loved the resolution.
angels_gp17's review
3.0
~ 3 Lucky Break Stars ~
I enjoyed reading Lucky Break. If you are a fan of the series or just starting then you will notice that the full length books are more about the vampires where the shorts focus on CNeill’s shifters.
Merit and Ethan are trying to have a vacation together, but as all things go their life is never duel and the vacation they planed gets turned upside down. This short does not really contribute to the series, just gives you a taste of what the series is about and shows us what vampires outside of the Houses deal with. I enjoyed the secondary characters and the Marchand/Mckenzie feud plus murder mystery.
The one thing I have notice in the books and shorts is that Ethan always calls Merit by Sentinel. This is getting to me. It makes me wonder/question about their relationship. I can’t decide if they are a couple or if they are Master and Sentinel. Is it his way of putting Merit in her place? Aren’t they supposed to be more of a couple and on equal ground.. Hmmm?
As things go Lucky Break was a nice enjoyable short to read.
I enjoyed reading Lucky Break. If you are a fan of the series or just starting then you will notice that the full length books are more about the vampires where the shorts focus on CNeill’s shifters.
Merit and Ethan are trying to have a vacation together, but as all things go their life is never duel and the vacation they planed gets turned upside down. This short does not really contribute to the series, just gives you a taste of what the series is about and shows us what vampires outside of the Houses deal with. I enjoyed the secondary characters and the Marchand/Mckenzie feud plus murder mystery.
The one thing I have notice in the books and shorts is that Ethan always calls Merit by Sentinel. This is getting to me. It makes me wonder/question about their relationship. I can’t decide if they are a couple or if they are Master and Sentinel. Is it his way of putting Merit in her place? Aren’t they supposed to be more of a couple and on equal ground.. Hmmm?
As things go Lucky Break was a nice enjoyable short to read.
leabookjoy's review against another edition
4.0
French & English reviews
Une petite nouvelle sur fond de vacances pour Merit et Ethan =) J'avoue que quand j'ai vu qu'ils étaient partis dans le Colorado, ça m'a donné des envies de vacances =D
Même si l'histoire était courte, j'ai beaucoup aimé l'intrigue, très Roméo et Juliette mais tellement triste ... J'aime beaucoup la façon dont Chloe Neill traite la question des préjugés et de la discrimination ...
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A little short-story about an holiday for Merit and Ethan =) I must admit that when I saw they had gone to Colorado, I was in wanderlust =D
Even if the story was short, I really liked the plot, very Romeo and Juliet but so sad ... I love how Chloe Neill deals with the issue of prejudice and discrimination ...
Une petite nouvelle sur fond de vacances pour Merit et Ethan =) J'avoue que quand j'ai vu qu'ils étaient partis dans le Colorado, ça m'a donné des envies de vacances =D
Même si l'histoire était courte, j'ai beaucoup aimé l'intrigue, très Roméo et Juliette mais tellement triste ... J'aime beaucoup la façon dont Chloe Neill traite la question des préjugés et de la discrimination ...
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A little short-story about an holiday for Merit and Ethan =) I must admit that when I saw they had gone to Colorado, I was in wanderlust =D
Even if the story was short, I really liked the plot, very Romeo and Juliet but so sad ... I love how Chloe Neill deals with the issue of prejudice and discrimination ...
seriouslybookish's review
4.0
It was really good and pretty in-depth for a novella. As usual I really enjoyed this book and especially loved that it included more of Gabriel and Damien. I was a little bit disappointed that Boo didn't make an appearance but oh well.
angie_stl's review
5.0
4 3/4 Stars
As with every other Chicagoland book, I loved this! Maybe even more so because there were fewer of the secondary characters that we know and love, so I could just keep my mind on Ethan and Merit. In this book, Ethan and Merit decide to go on a vacation, but like always, trouble finds them. Almost as soon as they arrive at the guest house they are staying at in Colorado, their hostess shows up at the door, crying with blood on her hands. She had arrived home from the grocery store to find her husband dead on the living room floor. She explains that the shifters in the area are not happy about her mixed species marriage, she is a vampire and her husband was a shifter. Unlike in Chicago, these two groups of supernaturals are at war in this valley. It has been going on for well over a century. As they are discussing everything that has gone on, a group of shifters, led by the husband's cousin, show up to try to get revenge on the wife, because they are convinced she murdered her husband. Merit soon shows them that she doesn't back down so easily, and draws first blood, and the only blood. From there, of course their vacation goes down the drain very quickly, as they try to figure out who killed their host's husband. As usual, the book was action packed throughout. I did feel that Ms Neill was more descriptive about unimportant things, such as exactly how the guest house looked, how the house that the local vampires lived in looked, and many other inconsequential things. Of course that didn't distract me for long, because seriously, it's Ethan and Merit!!
I feel that you could read this as a stand alone, but you would be missing so many details that it probably wouldn't be worth it in the end. Take my advice and start at the beginning. It's definitely worth the time and money you'll spend on the whole series.
As with every other Chicagoland book, I loved this! Maybe even more so because there were fewer of the secondary characters that we know and love, so I could just keep my mind on Ethan and Merit. In this book, Ethan and Merit decide to go on a vacation, but like always, trouble finds them. Almost as soon as they arrive at the guest house they are staying at in Colorado, their hostess shows up at the door, crying with blood on her hands. She had arrived home from the grocery store to find her husband dead on the living room floor. She explains that the shifters in the area are not happy about her mixed species marriage, she is a vampire and her husband was a shifter. Unlike in Chicago, these two groups of supernaturals are at war in this valley. It has been going on for well over a century. As they are discussing everything that has gone on, a group of shifters, led by the husband's cousin, show up to try to get revenge on the wife, because they are convinced she murdered her husband. Merit soon shows them that she doesn't back down so easily, and draws first blood, and the only blood. From there, of course their vacation goes down the drain very quickly, as they try to figure out who killed their host's husband. As usual, the book was action packed throughout. I did feel that Ms Neill was more descriptive about unimportant things, such as exactly how the guest house looked, how the house that the local vampires lived in looked, and many other inconsequential things. Of course that didn't distract me for long, because seriously, it's Ethan and Merit!!
I feel that you could read this as a stand alone, but you would be missing so many details that it probably wouldn't be worth it in the end. Take my advice and start at the beginning. It's definitely worth the time and money you'll spend on the whole series.
wilda85's review
4.0
This was a nice little read. A little something extra for the CV fans. However, it didn't really contribute anything to the series. Ethan and Merit decide to take a vacation and end up in the midst of a hundred year war between a pack of shifters and vampires. With the help of Gabriel, Ethan and mainly Merit help solve a murder and a mystery that started the war to begin with.
It was nice and had a couple of funny moments, but I wished there had been more Methan.
It was nice and had a couple of funny moments, but I wished there had been more Methan.
mdlaclair's review
3.0
This was a nice quick read. The best way to descried the story is the vampire and werewolf version of the Hatfield and McCoy. Merit and Ethan are stuck in the middle of this fight some how. overall it was a solid short read.