A review by honey_coated_chapters
Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham

slow-paced

2.0

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𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 2/5
𝑵𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔: 384
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆: thriller/suspense 
𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔: 
•female friendships   
•alternating timeline (before/after)  
𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆: watching Riverdale unironically and really jiving with the fact that it’s hard to keep up with because so much is happening while the plot is actually not progressing. 
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I was really excited to get into this, but it was so boring and I’ll say that off the bat. I was enjoying the setting – college, mean girls, underage drinking. it had all the ingredients for a solid thriller but unfortunately, it fell flat. it took me forever to finish, and felt like a chore to pick up. We follow Margot as our main character, and her tone of voice is so bland and monotone that it was hard to get behind. The side characters, her other friends, Sloane and Nicole seemed so interesting, but we didn’t hear anything from them since we were stuck with just Margot’s POV. She was obsessive, and a lot of the story was repetitive. Nothing happened until the last 30ish pages and even then I couldn’t care less. It read more like a family drama. It lacked tension and suspense, and it wasn’t compelling. I like Stacey’s other books, so this hurts a bit, the writing was good, but the story was really lacking for me.
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