A review by justjacq
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

Oof... I really loved the premise of this book, but just never connected with it. I almost didn't finish it! I would definitely recommend reading the physical book if you give it a go, because the narrator for the audio book was painfully slow. Sometimes the gaps between sentences were so long I thought something happened to my audio - I ended up listening to it at 1.5x the speed, which is wayyy faster than my norm. The writing felt cliché and dramatic. I also felt like the first and second halves were completely different stories - the love story of the main character kind of takes away from the rest of the book, and it was a love a first sight kind of thing, which I never like. Plussss, a random ghost storyline in the last quarter of the story!? Oy. I just never got into it. I'm sure it didn't help that I've read some other similar stories that I really liked, so this one went through a more rigorous comparison in my mind.