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A review by oashackelford
Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
4.0
Addie had a horrible thing happen to her this summer, and she would rather not talk about it thank you very much! Unfortunately for her, her brother Ian found out about it, and now he won't stop bugging her to tell her mom. It has cause a lot of fighting between them. So much so that now their mom is saying that if they even fight once on their trip to Florence they are both off of their school sports teams. Addie resolves to get along with Ian while they are on their trip, that is until Ian tells her he was never planning on going to Italy in the first place. Now Addie must find a way to stay with Ian on his trip around Ireland and prevent their mom from finding out.
I really like this Love and series, but I did think that this one was the weakest of the three books. The constant fighting at the beginning of the book, while accurate to sibling relationships, got old extremely fast and I pushed through only because I had already read the other two books and I figured it would get good at some point. Once again Welch has done a good job at taking a nuanced view of the argument that they are having and none of the characters is doing something without a good reason. Each character has a motivation that explains their actions and they all make sense. I do like that because it makes the characters seem more realistic. I think that sometimes in teen books authors get away with the characters having a big blow up disagreement over a minor miscommunication and they overuse it, but Welch doesn't do this and her characters don't really miscommunicate. I think it is really refreshing and is a big reason why her books are so loved.
I did really enjoy this book once it got past the petty fighting stage and into their relationships a little bit. I do wish that Rowan's character was a little bit more fleshed out, but I thought that he was a good addition to the siblings because he helps balance them out.
I really like this Love and series, but I did think that this one was the weakest of the three books. The constant fighting at the beginning of the book, while accurate to sibling relationships, got old extremely fast and I pushed through only because I had already read the other two books and I figured it would get good at some point. Once again Welch has done a good job at taking a nuanced view of the argument that they are having and none of the characters is doing something without a good reason. Each character has a motivation that explains their actions and they all make sense. I do like that because it makes the characters seem more realistic. I think that sometimes in teen books authors get away with the characters having a big blow up disagreement over a minor miscommunication and they overuse it, but Welch doesn't do this and her characters don't really miscommunicate. I think it is really refreshing and is a big reason why her books are so loved.
I did really enjoy this book once it got past the petty fighting stage and into their relationships a little bit. I do wish that Rowan's character was a little bit more fleshed out, but I thought that he was a good addition to the siblings because he helps balance them out.