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A review by abrittlebee
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
3.0
Despite a few minor problems, my overall assessment of The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis is that it is a fun outlaw story with some really well thought out fantasy elements. It had almost everything I wanted, and even a bit extra; sisterhood, angry women, rebellion, and one amazing girl gang.
I absolutely adored the fact that this fantasy world felt like a Western. You had elements of magic with the raveners and the favors. Yet, the entire novel is filled with isolated frontier landscapes, mines, stagecoaches, and dust bowls. Moreover, Westerns are generally more masculine focused, so seeing that genre used to highlight feminine empowerment and friendship was really awesome.
As for the characters, I actually really liked all of them and enjoyed learning about their personal journeys how they had ended up enslaved at the Welcome House. My only real complaint is that no one had any significant character arc. I naturally expected at least one, but all of the girls were pretty much the same at the start of the novel as they were at the end.
I also couldn’t help but notice that convenient plot devices were littered all over this narrative. Need a guide to get you through the ghost infested outskirts? A super secretive one deadset on helping shows up just in the nick of time to save everyone. Need to rob a bank, but don’t know the safe combination? Maybe this bit of trash we stole off that one guy has it written on there! I wish that the plot had been better planned out to the point where these McGuffins weren’t necessary.
Would I recommend The Good Luck Girls? Probably. It was still a very entertaining read.
I absolutely adored the fact that this fantasy world felt like a Western. You had elements of magic with the raveners and the favors. Yet, the entire novel is filled with isolated frontier landscapes, mines, stagecoaches, and dust bowls. Moreover, Westerns are generally more masculine focused, so seeing that genre used to highlight feminine empowerment and friendship was really awesome.
As for the characters, I actually really liked all of them and enjoyed learning about their personal journeys how they had ended up enslaved at the Welcome House. My only real complaint is that no one had any significant character arc. I naturally expected at least one, but all of the girls were pretty much the same at the start of the novel as they were at the end.
I also couldn’t help but notice that convenient plot devices were littered all over this narrative. Need a guide to get you through the ghost infested outskirts? A super secretive one deadset on helping shows up just in the nick of time to save everyone. Need to rob a bank, but don’t know the safe combination? Maybe this bit of trash we stole off that one guy has it written on there! I wish that the plot had been better planned out to the point where these McGuffins weren’t necessary.
Would I recommend The Good Luck Girls? Probably. It was still a very entertaining read.