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A review by azahller
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Mark is currently going through the hardest year life has ever dealt him. In order to reasonably keep his reporting job, he must interview the new hotshot shortstop for the Robins. Mark is not a sports reporter and has no interest in making this obnoxious man look good. Eddie was just traded without warning to the Robins resulting in him making an ass of himself on national television and then topping it off with the worst batting slump anyone has ever seen. To make it worse, his manager now wants him to meet weekly with a reporter. How could anyone possibly think this is a good idea?
I fell in love with these characters so incredibly quickly. The perspective changes really gave so much insight into their characters: what they truly mean, how they are perceived, etc. I really appreciated how queerness both was and was not a conflict in this book. I don't love to read books where queer characters have to constantly suffer for being queer but it does feel odd sometimes to root a book in a time period and then ignore the general attitude toward queer people during that time. This book found a good balance of acknowledging, but still allowing the characters to have plotlines and conflicts that didn't really harp on the issue. I was very happy with how everything turned out for them.
Grief is a very strong theme in this book as if life after tragedy/misfortune. Because of this, I would advise any reader to check the trigger warning ahead of time as I could not imagine how terrible it would feel being caught off-guard by such an incredibly sensitive subject.
This is for the baseball fans, the romance fans, and anyone interested in reading about happily ever after following tragedy.
I fell in love with these characters so incredibly quickly. The perspective changes really gave so much insight into their characters: what they truly mean, how they are perceived, etc. I really appreciated how queerness both was and was not a conflict in this book. I don't love to read books where queer characters have to constantly suffer for being queer but it does feel odd sometimes to root a book in a time period and then ignore the general attitude toward queer people during that time. This book found a good balance of acknowledging, but still allowing the characters to have plotlines and conflicts that didn't really harp on the issue. I was very happy with how everything turned out for them.
Grief is a very strong theme in this book as if life after tragedy/misfortune. Because of this, I would advise any reader to check the trigger warning ahead of time as I could not imagine how terrible it would feel being caught off-guard by such an incredibly sensitive subject.
This is for the baseball fans, the romance fans, and anyone interested in reading about happily ever after following tragedy.