this was super interesting!! it was a little crazy at times but i say that in the most tender and wholesome way you can think of. it really isn’t like anything i’ve read before!!

So Lucky follows our main character Mara, who, in the span of a week, loses her wife, her relevance in the workplace, and her physical health. we follow Mara and her slow descent into madness, as well as her struggle with grieving over her relationships, her job, and her health.

So Lucky isn’t exactly a ‘fun’ book to read, (Mara goes through a lot including sudden bursts of paranoia and panic and intense self-hatred), but it was definitely an eye opening experience. there’s something in the way Nicola Griffith narrates Mara’s day to day life as a disabled young woman in such exquisite and sharp detail, that it becomes hard to put this book down, despite how aggressive Mara is as a character. she might come off that way, but she’s also just as confident, strong, hard-working, and a total boss.

the writing style blew me away!! it’s hard to find out there, but there really is a way to balance just a tiny bit of purple prose with a fantastic main character as a narrator, and the end result is totally worth it. i’ll definitely be checking out some of Nicola Griffith's other books after this!!!

this book is really short and pretty matter-of-fact, so i don’t really have much else to say about it other than it’s a fantastic read. total rec if you’re trying to push yourself out of a reading slump.