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A review by s_kasko
Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett
4.5
Chasing Lucky is pretty much everything I like best about YA romance (and about Jenn Bennett's books). A messy (but not annoying) heroine, a damaged love interest with a heart of gold, a quirky, memorable setting. It's swoony and complicated and messy in the way that most things involving seventeen year olds are.
One of the things I appreciated most about Chasing Lucky is that the characters managed to be messy and blinded by their own beliefs/issues/etc without being annoying. It's a fine line to walk, but the characters in Chasing Lucky, particularly Josie, manage it really well. It never felt like Josie was being willfully ignorant as to why the people around her behaved as they did, which I really appreciated. It also made the moments when their motivations came untangled much more satisfying for me as a reader, because I was figuring it out alongside Josie instead of wondering why it had taken her so long.
Lucky is also such an adorable love interest. I will admit that, in the beginning, he drifted a bit far over the line between bad boy with a heart of gold and actual ass, but he fully redeemed himself by the end of the book. Plus, his whole loud, boisterous, loving family was such a joy to see in the book - and a nice counterbalance to Josie's family. (I would have liked to know what his...fascination, I guess, with things that are traditionally bad luck was about, though.)
4.5/5
One of the things I appreciated most about Chasing Lucky is that the characters managed to be messy and blinded by their own beliefs/issues/etc without being annoying. It's a fine line to walk, but the characters in Chasing Lucky, particularly Josie, manage it really well. It never felt like Josie was being willfully ignorant as to why the people around her behaved as they did, which I really appreciated. It also made the moments when their motivations came untangled much more satisfying for me as a reader, because I was figuring it out alongside Josie instead of wondering why it had taken her so long.
Lucky is also such an adorable love interest. I will admit that, in the beginning, he drifted a bit far over the line between bad boy with a heart of gold and actual ass, but he fully redeemed himself by the end of the book. Plus, his whole loud, boisterous, loving family was such a joy to see in the book - and a nice counterbalance to Josie's family. (I would have liked to know what his...fascination, I guess, with things that are traditionally bad luck was about, though.)
4.5/5