A review by brokenrecord
Best of Luck by Kate Clayborn

4.0

This was really good! I think I liked it maybe just slightly more than the first one, but slightly less than the second one. But the whole series is so great, it's hard to rank them. I liked Greer and Alex a lot, and the issues they had to work through. Alex panic attacks were interesting, and helped make him a bit more sympathetic than how he came off in the first book (even though I did like him there, too). I loved that he started going to a therapist right from the start, and it was made very clear that Greer wasn't "fixing" him (even if she did help), and it wasn't that he needed one issue solved or anything, like… humans are complex, and he's working on the panic attacks and making progress, but everything can't be solved overnight. And he does come to be able to handle calming himself down from a panic attack on his own, which is big. I really enjoyed everything to do with that.

I liked Greer and Alex together a lot, they were super sweet, and I was glad it was Alex who came to the realization that he could stay in one location and be okay, and that he WANTED to stay, and didn't want to leave Greer and loved her, rather than her getting her hopes up and him leaving and disappointing her. I liked that she ended up being more hesitant in the end because of his job and his inability to stay in one place.

I also really liked Kit and Alex here, and how she's come to like… get what he needs and not push him too much. And the Zoe/Greer dynamic was especially great considering Kit was off for at least half the book on her honeymoon, and Greer wouldn't feel super comfortable telling her everything about Alex anyways. I liked how pushy Zoe was about the two of them and highlighting how Greer was just making excuses. And I liked how Alex helped Greer with the photography. And Greer's family!!! They were really lovely, if a bit overbearing/suffocating. Basically, this book was really good, and I'm eager to read more by Kate Clayborn in the future.