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Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
4.0

3.5 rounded up.
Lucy Sharpe is a just one of those girls that an air of mystique and a hint of danger who, when she’s friends with you, makes you feel important. This quality makes her impossible to resist when she draws Margot, a reserved college freshman, into her orbit. Margot, usually in the background, is intrigued when Lucy invites her to move into an off-campus house with Lucy and two other girls.
Margot uses this as an opportunity to try to break out of her shell following the death of her best friend, Eliza. However, the growing bond between Margot and Lucy takes a dark turn when a neighboring fraternity member is murdered, and Lucy disappears, leaving Margot in the midst of a situation she couldn’t have prepared for.

What happens when you try to reinvent yourself in college and your new friend group is a little more than you bargained for? If you enjoy suspenseful books about friendship that borderlines on obsessive and the consequences that may come with it, this is a book for you. This dual timeline book is a doozy. It had me guessing the whole way through and aspects of the ending still managed to surprise me.

Thanks to Stacy Willingham, NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for this ARC.