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A review by bisexualwentworth
Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
emotional
lighthearted
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This book really, REALLY knew its audience. It’s written for a specific group of people, and I think it’s going to appeal to that specific group very well.
I hadn’t read the first two books in the series before reading this one, so that might color my responses to it somewhat. I do plan to read them, but after interacting with the characters from the first two, I’m guessing that this will end up being my favorite of the three.
Things I love that this book had:
Second-chance romance
Friends to lovers
A very chaotic cat
Lots of bi characters
It was fun and definitely sexy and it would probably be a good end to the trilogy if I’d read the other two first.
There were also a couple scenes that genuinely made me laugh out loud, one involving the cat and one involving mayonnaise. You’ll know it when you read it.
Like I said, this book REALLY knows its audience. Unfortunately, that audience is white millennials and not really anyone else. The references to Friends and The Office, the leggings, and the all-white friend group composed mainly of feminine women really did make me wonder whether this book was REALLY written this year because it sort of felt like a sitcom from 2006 but made sapphic. And that’s fine! Just not quite my cup of tea.
(I have obviously read books that are whiter than this one, but most of them were set in rural England in the 1800s, not major US cities in the 21st century.)
Anyway, if you like sapphic romcoms and cats and you’re okay with a lot of astrology and millennial references, you will absolutely enjoy this book.
Thank you to NetGalley for giving me an eARC of this book!
I hadn’t read the first two books in the series before reading this one, so that might color my responses to it somewhat. I do plan to read them, but after interacting with the characters from the first two, I’m guessing that this will end up being my favorite of the three.
Things I love that this book had:
Second-chance romance
Friends to lovers
A very chaotic cat
Lots of bi characters
It was fun and definitely sexy and it would probably be a good end to the trilogy if I’d read the other two first.
There were also a couple scenes that genuinely made me laugh out loud, one involving the cat and one involving mayonnaise. You’ll know it when you read it.
Like I said, this book REALLY knows its audience. Unfortunately, that audience is white millennials and not really anyone else. The references to Friends and The Office, the leggings, and the all-white friend group composed mainly of feminine women really did make me wonder whether this book was REALLY written this year because it sort of felt like a sitcom from 2006 but made sapphic. And that’s fine! Just not quite my cup of tea.
(I have obviously read books that are whiter than this one, but most of them were set in rural England in the 1800s, not major US cities in the 21st century.)
Anyway, if you like sapphic romcoms and cats and you’re okay with a lot of astrology and millennial references, you will absolutely enjoy this book.
Thank you to NetGalley for giving me an eARC of this book!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
I would also like to add a content warning for references to a heart attack.