Thank you Avon and Harper Voyager for sending me an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
Two Second Review
★★½☆☆ // 2.5 s t a r s
In the most basic sense, Count Your Lucky Stars is a sappy sapphic romance about two best friends who met up again years later where old memories that might or might not have been forgotten are rehashed.
The Book
Release Date: February 1, 2022
Publisher: Avon Books
Genre(s): Romance, LGBTQIA+, Contemporary
Series?: yes, this is book #4
Page Count: 384
Premise:
Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now her entire crew has found "the one" and she’s beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. The right person shouldn't complete you, they should love you the way you are. And it's cool if they make you want to be better, but they should never make you feel like you are too much or not enough exactly as you are. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant—her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything. It’s been ten years, but the moment they lock eyes, Margot’s cold, dead heart thumps in her chest.
Olivia must be hallucinating. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn’t gone exactly as planned. At almost thirty, she’s been married... and divorced. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow her dreams. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client’s Best Woman would be the one that got away.
When a series of unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room because she’s a Very Good Person. Obviously. It has nothing to do with the fact that Olivia is as beautiful as ever and the sparks between them still make Margot tingle. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. Olivia is everything she’s ever wanted, but Margot let her in once and it ended in disaster. Will history repeat itself or should she count her lucky stars that she gets a second chance with her first love?
Review
Honestly, I don't have much to say about this book. This series started off decent. Just decent. Not bad, because it was still cute, had some good plot twists. But not great. The first book was the best in that the writing was new to my brain and I thought well I can't call the first book by this author basic because that's not fair. But then the second book came and it was just so stereotypical "I used to think of you as a friend, but now I love you" trope that it was gag-worthy. Well, some points were cute enough to gag in a good way. And then there's this one. I couldn't tell you half of what happened in this, it honestly felt so fluffy.
So the characters. They were…fine. Margot is fine, I like her I guess. Olivia was kind of annoying. Honestly, I'd be happy with a book about just Brendan and Darcy.
This review is turning into a why I dislike this book so let me get into actually why. Pacing! Goodness it was a roller coaster of nothing. It felt so so fast at some points and so so slow at others. I think the progression is what truly ruined this book for me. It honestly felt like their relationship rekindled too fast, like I understand that they have history together in the past and that they literally were together, but I think if characters are going to get together so fast with only a few hiccups, what's the point of writing the book, ya know?
❝ Everyone loses their way at some point, and it’s not just because
of their mistakes or the decisions they make. It’s because they’re
horribly, wonderfully human. ❞
Honestly, that's all I can write about this, this was a whole lot of nothing but hey, I got one arc review done, only like eight more to go…
Tropes…
— friends to lovers
— friends with benefits
— actual conversations (gasp)
Read…If You Liked…
Written in the Stars (book #1 in the series + sapphic)
She Drives Me Crazy (sapphic!)
Watch…If You Liked…
The Prom (my brain is blank…)
ADD COUNT YOUR LUCKY STARS TO YOUR GOODREADS SHELF
