Josie Saint-Martin and her mother Winona have to move back to their small home town to look after the family bookstore. There Josie is reunited with Lucky,her childhood bestfriend. After five years of being separated both of them have changed,but it seems that Lucky's change was very drastic. He went fro sweet and lovely to becoming the town's bad boy and often the main subject of local rumor mill. Only,is any of it true? Or is there much more to Lucky than meets the eye.
My first Jenn Bennett book and I can already see her becoming one of my favorite and autobuy authors. This book was everything. I wouldn't be surprised if it makes my top ten books I've read this year, it was that good. I can honestly say there wasn't a single thing I didn't like. And now I want more books with these characters. I want a book about Evie, after her previous bad relationship she deserves a happy ending. I desperately want a book about Winona and Drew,with all the flashbacks. I loved these characters so much that it is very difficult to let them go. Watch me reread sometime soon.
Huge thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I truly loved it and would highly recommend.

Rating: 4.5 Stars

Josie is ready to stop living the vagabond life, and ready to start putting her plan for the future into action. One part of that plan is returning to her hometown, but therein lies the biggest challenge. It requires Josie to put up with vicious gossip about her family, and also hope, that her grandmother doesn't return home before the end of the school year, and drive her mother out of town...again. Her homecoming seems to be off to a disastrous start, until she commits a crime, and her former best friend takes the fall. Maybe she would be able to evade the Saint-Martin curse after all.

I don't think I will ever stop looking forward to a Jenn Bennett book. The story and setting might change, but she never fails to gift her readers with wonderfully flawed characters and an adorable romance.

CHASING LUCKY features a heroine, who comes from a long line of strong women, who may not be the best communicators. Her family had plenty of love, but it sometimes got lost in the secrets, half truths, and discussions they avoided having. Not only did Josie yearn for her mother to step up and be more of a parent, she also wanted to experience a "normal" family. She wanted to stay in one place, and put down roots. My heart ached for this young woman, but I also knew she could have exactly what she wanted without ever leaving Beauty.

I actually loved all the Saint-Matin women, and I appreciated the way Bennett worked in the ideas about rumors, secrets, lies, and mistakes, but what I really adored, was the relationship between Lucky and Josie.

Lucky on his own was so lovable. He was slightly wounded and very misunderstood. He was often the topic of the local rumor mill, but he never pushed back. As the story unfolded, and I learned more and more about him, my love for him grew.

I needed him and Josie to rekindle their friendship, because the bond they shared had been something special. Hearing about their past ties put a smile on my face. Their parting and growing apart was a difficult thing, for both Josie and Lucky. I was really rooting for these two to find each other again, and now that they were older, they were seeing each other as way more than friends. Some of my favorite moments in the book were the ones shared between these two. Their excursions and interactions were wonderful, and marked with the fantastic banter I have grown to expect from Bennett. She never fails to make me ship her couples, and it was a pleasure watching these two reconnect, as well as connect on a different level.

Once again, Bennett has delivered a stupendous story featuring family, friendship, and first love, which made me feel a wealth of emotions, and ultimately, left me with a huge smile on my face.

The only other Jenn Bennett book that I’ve read was Alex, Approximately and I absolutely adored that little nugget.

Now that goes to say I didn’t know what I’d get with Chasing Lucky. Would I love it or would I not? That’s the thing about new to you authors.

Here’s the thing: I didn’t love nor hate this book. To me, it was just there. Don’t get me wrong, it had some cute moments. I really love Lucky and Josie together. Their friendship turned more was very real. Their characters were dimensional and you could relate to them.

Other than that? Nothing.

The family dynamics between the Saint-Martin women was a little too much at times, because it all felt too dramatic and unnecessary. Maybe families do act and treat one another this way, but also . . . sit down and talk about things!

I did love the togetherness of Lucky’s family, though. I felt like I could go over to dinner unannounced on Sunday and they’d welcome me with open arms.

It really bothered me with the miscommunication between Lucky and Josie, and their banter back and forth was honestly the best part of the book. And there was a lot of it, since there was no real plot. Just a bunch of drama.

This is a summer romance read, just for the cutesy love and back and forth between the main characters, with some family drama and teenage antics mixed in.

3.5 Stars
Chasing Lucky started out strong for me. I really loved the whole curse thing that was going on and what it meant for Josie and her mom to move back to Beauty, Rhode Island. I do have to mention that I was thrown off pretty quickly, though. There was an unexpected time jump and I wasn't quite prepared for it. I don't know if that was the weird formatting of the ARC I received or that it felt weird in general. Once I got past that initial shock, I was back to navigating the story easily.

Josie had A LOT going on in her life. She didn't quit trust her mother. Her old best friend, Lucky, confused her with the way he kept her at a distance...until they were back to being friends. People in town judged and treated her wrong. Her cousin had boy problems. It was a lot for both Josie and me. It was so much to take in that I found myself being bogged down by it all. I honestly would have rather had less to focus on so that one or two major things could have been dealt with deeper. What I really loved about this book was Josie and Lucky. I would have rather just read about them without so much other stuff. The middle of this book just dragged for me because of all of it.

That being said, once I hit about 75% great, interesting things started happening. I loved the book from this point on. I loved where Josie's relationship with her mom went. I loved Josie and Lucky deciding friendship wasn't the only thing between them. I could have used more information about her cousin. The last 5% was the best part of the book.

Overall, I liked this book. I wish I would have loved it. It had some strong bones, it just needed a little simplifying.

This books was nice read. It had family issues, finding oneself also cute romance here and there. I have heard a lot about this author, and it was my 1st time reading a book by the author. This story was good. Worth the read.
Thank you netgalley for providing with E-Arc in exchange of an honest review.

After five years of moving from city to city, Josie Saint-Martin and her single mother Winona come back to their hometown, Beauty, in order to manage the family bookstore while Josie's grandmother is abroad. Josie's relationship with her mother is strained and the Saint-Martin women appear to be cursed to be unlucky in love, but Josie has a plan to get away from it all... if only she can finish high school in one piece.

By all accounts, I should have liked this. I'd heard good things about Jenn Bennett's books (several of them are on my TBR list), and this one had me at "family bookstore". And yet, I struggled to finish it. I kept catching myself switching to mindlessly scrolling on my phone every time I rolled my eyes at something the characters were doing, which was... often, to say the least. There wasn't really one big thing that kept me from enjoying the book. Rather, there were multiple small annoyances that kept pulling me out of it and never really allowed me to get fully immersed.

Things such as...
- The 4-month time jump between the first two chapters. I get that some set-up was required for Josie not getting the internship, which is why she needed to arrive in town before the summer started, but missing out on her first few months in Beauty was very jarring.

- Everyone knowing everyone's business in a small town was dealt with so strangely. Josie's classmates and other townies randomly strolling by and hurling insults? The rich guy randomly showing naked pictures of Josie's mom at a party? The reveal of why certain people know all the gossip? Granted, I've never been a high schooler in an American small town, but... really? It was all just so strangely unmotivated and ultimately left unexplored. I'm all for a good "small town, big secrets" trope, but it has to be done well.

- Dramatic teenagers. Yes, yes, I know it's YA, but, like... It's a summer romance book. Sure, it can have some drama, but do we really need overreactions such as: Lucky being irrationally angry/upset that Josie left town when she was 12 (as if she had a choice?). Teens freaking out about potentially having to break up in a year (you're teens. You'll break up in three months). A lot of "Don't leave meeee" whining (not romantic). That one scene where Josie almost caused a traffic accident because she needed to get out of the car Right Now instead of Literally One Minute Later. Josie's run to the Narwhal at the Flotilla (because otherwise she wouldn't be able to talk to Lucky at... literally any other point of her life, ever?).

- Strange use of language/expressions. Especially the bats with vampire teeth in Josie's stomach. We get it, butterflies in one's stomach are passé, but the bats were such an icky visual... why would anyone ever? Also: every time the word 'kablam' was used.

- The "curse" was only vaguely explained ("unlucky in love, doomed to end up miserable and alone"), then used to justify... a lot of wholly unconnected things? Winona's sex life, Evie's dad being dead, Evie being in a manipulative relationship, things (not) going well with Lucky... Eventually, the curse mostly seemed to be there as a convenient way to explain a whole lot of iffy plot points, which made the curse itself all the more iffy. Mostly, though, it made me want to rewatch Practical Magic. It's been a while...

- The entire "deus ex machina" ending. How neat. How convenient.

I'll wrap this up now before it gets even more curmudgeony, but... eh. This could have been so much more.

Photographer Josie moves back to her childhood home when her grandmother and Aunt leave the family bookstore in her and her mom's care-taking. Josie hasn't stepped foot in Beauty since her mom and grandma's epic, drag-out fight, a fight she is still hazy on the details on, many years ago. Josie is hoping to keep her head down, graduate, and eventually move to LA to be with her famous photographer father, a man she barely knows. She is not prepared for the major glow-up of her former best friend or his troubled ways, but is soon drawn back in to Lucky's life.

A nice YA romance and coming of age story, but not my favorite of Bennett's work.

At this point, I think I could read Jenn Bennett's grocery list and give it 5 stars.  I can't stress how much I love her books.




What was there to like in Chasing Lucky?  Everything.  The setting, the people, the photography, the drama, and the curse.  I loved it all.




Josie and her mom left Beauty five years earlier after a fight with her grandma.  Josie had no warning and they just left.  Her best friend, Lucky, had recently been in a fire and she couldn't even see him.  They were gone.  She tried e-mailing, but he never responded.  Josie's mom moved them around a lot.  She never stayed long enough to have any friends.  Josie's mom, Winona, had a bit of a reputation.  She didn't date, but she went out late at night often.  All of the Saint-Martins had some type of reputation.  After all, their family is cursed at love.  Or at least that's how the story goes.




After her grandma decided to spend a year in Nepal, Josie and Winona came back to Beauty to run the family bookstore.  Her mom's end goal was to end up in Florida.  Josie had a big secret though.  She planned on going to LA to live with her father and hopefully do photography there.  Her dad is a famous photographer who is much older than Winona.  They had a relationship when she was 19 and in college that resulted in Josie, but nothing else.  Josie is a photographer, too.  She photographs a bit of everything, but her big thing is signs.  And she's not a fan of taking photos of people.  Josie's cousin, Evie, is staying with them in grandma's apartment and also helping out at the store.  She's in college and Josie has just finished up her junior year in high school.  They were close even though they only saw each other once a year.




Lucky Karras was known as a bad boy with a reputation.  He was also Josie's best friend when they were kids.  His family works on boats across the street from the bookstore.  Things are weird between them at first.  But Josie and Lucky start spending more and more time together after he takes the fall for something she did.  I loved Lucky.  I love all the boys in Jenn Bennett's books.  He was smart and loyal.  But he did have a massive fear of abandonment.  He was afraid to get close to Josie because she would just leave again.




Josie was a schemer, but also a bad liar.  Lucky liked to close himself off, even after Josie tried being more open and honest.  She was able to break through, but not always.  While Josie knows that Beauty is full or gossip and rumors, she still struggles with how much might be true about Lucky.  The more time they spend together, the more romantic feelings come out.  They're best friends.  Or they were.  But Josie wondered if they could be more.




There is a lot of family drama and secrets that come out.  I loved the focus and relationships with the Saint-Martin women.  Lucky's family was great and I loved how he was with animals.  There really wasn't a single thing in the book that I didn't like.




I gave this 5 stars.  Thank you to the publisher for my review copy (both physical and earc through Netgalley).  I will forever request Jenn Bennett books from you. :) 




Warnings for teacher/student relationship (college age), asshole rich kids, family secrets, fire, there is some sex, toxic relationships between family members and two people dating, revenge porn (sort of, nude photo shared), teenage pregnancy, abortion, anxiety, and vandalism.

I feel Jen Bennett can do me no wrong at this point. I’ve picked out almost everything she has come out with and enjoyed every single book to the point she has become and auto buy author to me, so I was so excited to read her new upcoming release. Turns out, I really enjoyed Chasing Lucky just as much as her other books, and though it hasn’t topped my favorite book by her, it has a close spot on my list.

Something I really like about Jen Bennett’s books is that there is a nice balance between plot and romance, and usually she explores the different characters and their friendships and interactions before a romantic relationship starts, and that’s something that I really appreciate. I think, especially in this book, that some background information was needed for the reader to become attached to the characters and root for them and connect with them, and that’s something that I think she did amazingly.

The plot was actually pretty unique and interesting, and I had so much fun not only getting to know the different family relationships, but also piecing their histories as I kept reading the story. I tend to enjoy books that are set in small towns, and I feel Chasing Lucky gave me that vibe and had that small town atmosphere that I adore, so I was so happy to see that.

When it comes to the characters, I have to say that though at the beginning I was as attached to them as I expected, as I kept reading the story I started to connect with them more and more. That may have to do something with the fact that I was in a major reading slump and it took me more than it usually does to get into a novel, but nonetheless, I ended up loving them so much.

Our protagonist was actually pretty real and flawed, and made a few mistakes throughout the story and some decisions that I didn’t agree with, but I actually understood the reason why she acted a certain way or why she did the things she did, and I ended up really connecting with her. I liked her evolution throughout the novel and her interactions with the different members of her family. Usually I like a structured and caring family, but I enjoyed the author’s take and how she wove the different relationships between the family members.

I also adored the romance! The love interest was such a pure being, and I cannot express how much I love the though-guy-on-the-outside-but-is-actually-a-softie trope, and I haven’t come across many romance books that have it, so I was so pleasantly surprised, and I think she did it pretty great. They both had a very good chemistry and dynamics and I just loved how that friendship slowly turned into much more, and the way the were together.
The only thing that I wish I’d seen more is a little bit more romance, because though it was quite an important part of the novel, it was pretty slow burning and it took a while for them to be together, and it was more towards the end when that happened, so I would have loved to see more of them together.

Overall, I’m pretty sure Jen Bennett can do no wrong at this point, because I’ve loved everything she has written, and I for sure will be picking up everything that she will publish in the future. She writes such fluffy and cute contemporary romances, and I cannot wait to see what her next book is going to be.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Usually I adore anything and everything Jenn Bennett writes, but SAVING LUCKY felt like a weaker version of her usual works. While it maintains the nostalgic, carefree summer high school slice-of-life and romance aspect, I left like there was MORE that could have been done with the characters. Perhaps the fact that the end didn’t feel quite conclusive also added to this feeling. And while I don’t expect coming of age stories to be conclusive, (after all, characters have their whole lives ahead of them) I still felt like something was missing in the story. And that the details we were reading were all a part of a contemporary romance formula.

“There’s a long-held belief in my family that all the Saint-Martin women are romantically cursed. Unlucky in love, doomed to end up miserable and alone.”

The story starts when Josie arrives back to her hometown, Beauty, despite her mom’s misgivings on the small town energy. Josie sees this town as a stopping point for her actual goal, which is to go to the West coast to train under her father to learn photography. It’s always been team Josie and her mom, but Josie wants more than frequently having to switch schools, and an incomplete family. She thinks that she can pave her way if given an opportunity with her father, who she does not have a life with. Guiding her life plans is a family curse that states how the women in her fam are doomed in love. Joke’s on her, because when she moves back to Beauty, she finds her (estranged) childhood friend still there, looking hotter than ever. Let the fun begin.

The story takes place the summer before Josie’s senior year. While she tries to have fun and enjoy her life, gossip and drama catches up to her. Before she knows what’s going on, her childhood friend Lucky is taking the blame for something she did, and this brings them closer together, despite not having resolution with their childhood conflict. Either way, Josie starts thinking more about her future and then power of the small but strong family that she has now. There’s definitely a lot of family emotions that Josie and the women have to resolve, and that’s the heart of the book. I loved Josie’s friendship with her cousin, as well as her mother. The women of Saint-Martin may be ‘cursed,’ but that brings them ever together.

Josie’s character was a good balance for a girl coming into her life. She’s resilient in taking an internship with her father, but worried about how her mother would react. She cares for her mother deeply, but she’s wanting more out of LIFE. And that really resonated with me, I also enjoyed the sweet, light romance with Lucky, who HAS a very huge, wild. Greek family that welcomed Josie into their arms. While he has a dark and brooding energy, he’s very sweet and caring and supportive of Josie, despite the hole she ends up digging for herself. I thought they had a great dynamic together.

Overall, FINDING LUCKY was a sweet and lovely YA contemporary. But it didn’t particularly stand out from Bennett’s other books, which is a small disappointment. Although most conflicts were resolved, I finished the last page feeling bereft. I definitely liked Josie’s story, but at the end of the day I won’t really remember it.

The following German review will be published on sites like amazon.de.

Schöne Geschichte mit Charakteren, die mir teils zu besonders waren

Bücher von Jean Bennett haben mir in der Vergangenheit teils richtig gut gefallen, daher war ich guter Dinge, dass dies auch auf "Chasing Lucky" zutreffen würde.

Die Geschichte spielt in einem kleinen Ort, Josie ist mit ihrer Mutter gerade dorthin zurückgezogen, sie hat den Großteil ihrer Kindheit dort verbracht. In dem Ort angekommen trifft sie auf bekannte Gesichter. Auch auf das von Lucky, mit dem sie früher eine tiefe Freundschaft verbunden hat.

Was folgt ist eine intensive Zeit mit den beiden, es war faszinierend mehr über die beiden im Jetzt, aber auch in der Vergangenheit zu lernen. Nicht jede Entwicklung in der Geschichte war für mich perfekt, aber insgesamt hat alles gut gepasst.

Neben den beiden Hauptcharakteren gibt es einige interessante Nebencharaktere, so z.B. Josies Mutter, mit deren Besonderheiten ich aber gehadert habe. Im Englischen nennt man so jemanden wie sie wahrscheinlich "quirky", ich musste ja eher an nervig denken. Gegen Ende des Buches kam ich mit Josies Mutter als Figur besser zurecht, wirklich warm geworden bin ich mit ihr aber nicht.

Trotzdem hatte ich insgesamt eine unterhaltsame Leseerfahrung mit dem Buch, dafür gibt es glatte vier Sterne.

This is my 2nd Jenn Bennett novel, the first being Alex, Approximately. What I remember about the former book and this one - they both had beautiful covers and an interesting premise. What I had not recalled - that the previous book was slow-moving, and this one felt quite the same.

That's not to say that the writing wasn't good, because it is. The story of Josie and Lucky just did not hold my interest until I was about 3/4 of the way through. I may have mentioned, I have trouble putting books in the DNF pile but if I did - this one might reside there.

So we arrive at 3 stars - the writing is good, the story is - fine - but the attempts at tension and mystery just fell a bit flat for me and I was not rushing to find out what happens next.

Thank you to Netgalley for this preview!

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Another great story from one of my favourite YA authors!

Josie Saint-Martin and Lucky Karras were inseparable as children, but Josie's mother and overbearing grandmother have a huge argument, and the next five years are spent traveling from one town to the other as her mother finds work as a books store manager. Josie is miserable, always on the move, and she misses Lucky. How will he ever forgive her for leaving him shortly after he was so badly injured in a house fire? Did she think she had abandoned him in his hour of need?

Josie is heartily sick of the constant moving from town to town. Her mother seems restless and rootless, until one day Josie's Mom agrees to head back to their New England town of Beauty to take over the family bookstore while Gran and her aunt go to Nepal.

Josie and Lucky have a rocky road ahead of them before they can get past the misunderstandings and hurt feelings that Winona's abrupt departure left behind. Josie is an amateur photographer and Lucky wants to be a metallurgist, taking scrap metal and turning it into art or useful objects. Their "art" bridges the gap and helps them find a way back to each other.

I loved Lucky's devotion to Josie. He did everything he could to keep her in Beauty. That scene on the bird sanctuary island was so darned sweet!

In the author's acknowledgement at the end of the story, Jenn Bennett confessed that this story had to be rewritten several times. I began to wonder what had been left out or changed. Personally, I wished that the sub-plot involving Winona (Josie's mother) and her relationship with her high school boyfriend, Drew, had been more fleshed out. It would have been an excellent side story. Drew and Winona's parents had interfered with their plans to marry right after graduating high school. They were going to move to Florida and live next to the beach. But both sets of parents put a stop to their elopement. Drew was shipped off to join the Navy, and Winona went to college - to be seduced by her photography professor and promptly dumped when she fell pregnant. In retrospect, their parents' interference hadn't brought much happiness to either Drew or Winona. I was always so intrigued when Josie uncovered any information about that ill-fated love affair. A true Romeo and Juliet story. I hope her editor didn't nix that story line. I am still wondering how things turned out for Winona and Drew!

I love Jenn Bennett's quirky style and her very human, very fallible character. Josie's inner dialogues were often hilarious, and so true to life. So while I know that Jenn Bennett said she found this one a hard story to finish, I, for one, am glad she did. I loved Josie and Lucky: two very sweet young teens on the cusp of adulthood, so very much in love with one another! This time, there was not as much parental interference!

3.5 stars I really wish I would have written a review for this when my thoughts were more fresh, but I was excited to be reading again so I just kept picking up books. I really liked this one, just not as much as any other Jenn Bennett books. It has the perfect cover to go with the story and a really tantalizing narrative... but the writing is painfully subpar. The "drama" is pretty stretched to add more length to the book, and there's a lot of telling but not showing with some of the aspects. Like the mother-grandmother relationship, the toxic aspects of the small town, etc. BUT the romance is literally AMAZING and I would 10/10 read this just for the romance!! It blew me to smithereens and left me weak in the knees.

3.25/5 Stars

Jenn Bennett is definitely one of my favourite contemporary authors, but I was a bit disappointed with this new novel of hers. I truly felt like something was missing in this book and in my opinion there were just a lot of miscommunication and unnecessary drama which is something I don't particularly enjoy.
On a more positive note, I really liked Lucky as a character. I think he was the one who made me want to really read the story and see what happened next. Also, the family dynamics among the Saint Martin's family were very realistic and definitely added something new and original to the main storyline.
Overall, it was a cute read, but I did expect more from it.

*Spoiler free*

I adore Jenn Bennett's contemporaries. She writes such adorable, fluffy, cheesy, and just downright amazing stories. And I was very, very much looking forward to reading her new one. The only things I really knew about it was that it included making mistakes, a brief stint in a jail cell, and a supposed bad boy. And that's all I really needed to know. Trigger warnings: mild stalking, men being gross

I am absolutely adding this one to my list of "amazing Jenn Bennett books". It might include pretty much all of them, but it still greatly deserves its spot there.

I loved Josie with a passion. She's misguided, had a bad sense of humor, and a budding photographer. She's looking for things in the wrong places and learning things the hard way, and it was great to follow her through that. She is also so tired and so over the gossip of her town and the drama that worms its way into her life. I loved seeing a character just being emotionally exhausted. I felt like she truly understood what it's like to want heave a great sigh all the time. It was fantastic.

Lucky was amazing. Seriously amazing. The definition of hard on the outside, soft on the inside. I would have liked to delve more into his character and learn more about him on a deeper level, but I still loved him a whole lot. He has a cat tattooed on his hand and he rides a vintage motorcycle that he built himself. He's sarcastic, kind, and values teeth grating honesty. Just, a seriously amazing character.

I also really loved the town this book is set in! I usually don't comment on the setting in contemporary books and I usually don't love small towns in contemporaries. But this one found a special place in my heart. It's quiet, quirky, and weird. Yes, it does have a flourishing gossip vine and a lot of the people suck, but I felt like it had an underlying niceness to it. Really, I loved seeing it through Josie's eyes and how she discovered all the weird, quirky, and good parts of it.

Bennett has a knack for talking about hard, complicated emotions. That's not different in this book. Josie makes mistakes, she believes the wrong things, and she has trouble communicating. It's messy, but she tries. Lucky, Josie, and Josie's mom all struggle with putting up an invisible wall, and that's something I related to so much. Josie and Lucky learn to be honest with each other and to bring that invisible wall down.

There's also a lot of talking about guilt, and trying to figure out how to handle it. There's no correct answer and sometimes you just have to muddle along. Plus, hilarious schemes were hatched to try and help the person and return said help.

Josie also has a really complicated relationship with her mom, but I really loved how it played out. It was messy and it was complicated, and sometimes hurtful things were said. But they are both learning and they are both willing to try.

I also really loved Evie, Josie's cousin! She was a side character, but I felt like she added so much flare to the book. It was great.

The romantic relationship was fantastic. Like, really, really fantastic. Best friends-to-enemies-to-lovers. And those two dorks and those nos. There were two no scenes and let me tell you, they were wonderful. This relationship is just so full of emotion and so well done. I love them so much.

There was also a lot of boats in this book. While I might not love the beach a bunch, I did like these boats. Plus, Josie tries to overcome seasickness and that was amazing.

I also loved that Josie was a photographer! Lucky also works with metal! I just thought it was cool!

All in all, this was a beyond fantastic Jenn Bennett book. It was hilarious, adorable, emotionally messy, and just all around amazing.

Jenn Bennett's books always seem to get me out of a slump! I love each of her titles and how they transport me to such cute unique settings

4.75 stars

JENN!! I cannot even tell you how much I adore this book. It was seriously everything. I always want more story when I get to the end of your books, because I don't want to leave that world.

Also can we talk about Lucky Karras?! 😍

"Book people are good people." - I so have to agree with this. This book community has brought so many good people into my life. Forever grateful for it.

Jenn Bennett has become one of my favorite YA authors. Imagine my giddiness when I was able to read an advanced copy of her upcoming book. And Chasing Lucky did not disappoint. Loved the characters! They were so many layers to who they were. They were slowly unraveled as the book progressed. I even liked the secondary characters. Although I will admit there did seem to be something missing that would help me understand cousin Evie's relationship with Adrien. I would have liked to know more about them. I loved the storyline. There was never a dull moment. The writing was excellent. I found myself rereading lines just to think about the words a little more. Loved the swoon factor. The slow build up leading to what you know is coming. The banter was divine. The only thing I found disappointing was that once I was done I realized now I have to wait even longer for her next book since this one hasn't actually come out yet. #advancedreaderproblems

***Advanced copy obtained from Simon and Schuster via Netgalley***

It's taken me some time to write this review because I am an absolute Jenn Bennett fangirl. And, if you love Jenn Bennett, this is absolutely a book you should read. However, this isn't the strongest book in her arsenal, in my opinion, I'm afraid.

The Saint-Martin women believe that they are cursed when they come to love. And, it's downhill from there. When Josie finds her way back to her hometown she finds that her childhood friend Lucky has changed into the town "bad boy."

This book has so much potential, but it just dragged for me a bit and had some problematic story lines. That said, it's definitely worth a read, just not my favorite of Bennett's.

Many thanks to NetGalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.