If you love reading about messy women, then you will enjoy reading this book. It's not much depth to it, but there are messy characters to enjoy. Each of the characters bring something to the table. Keep that in mind.

I really liked this story about three sisters who win a life changing amount of money in the lottery. The sisters are all in some sort of dire financial so they had the opportunity to make huge upgrades in their homes, cars, and plans. There were some parts where in my head I said “No, are you crazy? Don’t do that!,” but all of those mistakes made you love the characters more. It was an easy summer read that passed the time at the pool and on the beach just fine. Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy.

The perfect feel good book & easy read. This book was predictable but super cute and put me in such a good mood.

Thank you to Atria for a copy of Louisiana Lucky in exchange for my honest review.

I read Julie Pennell's first book last year, and after reading this one as well I would say she does a very good job at multi character stories. Each of the sisters in this book has their own side story and they all blended vey well. I will definitely pick up the next book that Pennell releases and recommend her as an author.

After years of playing the lottery with 2 tickets with random numbers and a third ticket with special numbers, the Breaux sisters actually win the big jackpot and each take home millions. The story tells how that big win changed each of their lives for the good and the bad. Some story lines were a little predictable, but overall I enjoyed each 0f the sisters stories. I loved the ending and felt like it all came full circle and was a good lesson on appreciating what you already have.

What would you do if you won the lottery?

Three sisters, Lexi, Callie, and Hanna, have a girls night every month where they play Powerball and watch to see if they win. They have grand ideas of what they'd do if they'd win even if they're pipe dreams. One night the sisters luck turns and they won the Powerball. Now their dreams can come true. As they say, be careful what you wish for...

Louisiana Lucky is a quick fiction read that could potentially be placed in the women's fiction genre. Although I found it a fast read I didn't find it to be one I'll remember for days, or years, to come. The story was fine, but there wasn't anything within in to feel memorable. A lot of the action was predictable. The sisters felt one dimensional and I wanted more from their characterizations.

Thank you to Atria Books and Netgalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

This was such a fun book to read. I loved the three sisters and enjoyed reading how the money would help each of them in different ways and also seeing them learn that money can't fix everything and realizing what's really important. Even though there was some great learning topics discussed in the book, I felt it was a great and quick summer read!

I really enjoyed this Women’s Fiction book about a trio of sisters - Lexi, Callie, and Hanna - who win the lottery. They’ve played the lottery for years - dreaming about how their lives will change if they win the money. Each sister is at different “phase” of her life - Lexi is engaged, Callie is a career driven journalist, and Hanna is a wife and mother. They each have ideas about what they’d do with the money - $204 million, but they soon realized that money doesn’t magically make life perfect. This is a book about family and about finding what makes you happy. (Spoiler: it isn’t money.) I loved getting to know the sisters, and I’d highly recommend this book.

Thanks to @NetGalley and Atria Books for my ARC!

hree sisters do what so many of us can only dream of, they win a mega millions lottery! So many things in their lives could use an upgrade; Lexi’s wedding, Callie’s career, and Hannah’s house and better schools for her kids. What a wonderful windfall. However as they all dive head in to their new lives as millionaires, they all start to wonder if they might have traded one set of problems for another.

These sisters are great characters and the touch of southern charm is just right. Of course we can see the pitfalls ahead better than these protagonists did, but it was entertaining to watch them figure out things in their own.

This book wasn't exactly unpredictable, but definitely a sweet and easy read that I think anyone could pick up and find something to identify with. It follows sisters who, after years of playing every week, win the lottery and have to call with the unmet expectations and the sudden changes that come with newfound wealth.

I enjoyed following the sisters relationships and seeing how they grew and changed, but I would have liked a bit more surprise. But that's a small complaint compared to my enjoyment of the story even still. For anyone who dreams about winning the lottery, this book does a great job of helping to untangle the question of whether or not money does in fact buy happiness.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

This was an absolutely adorable book - i loved the three sisters, all broke and in different parts of their lives. The money would help each of them in different ways! It was fun to imagine how I would spend the money myself!

This book was too cute! Such a fun, quick read about three sisters finding out that money can’t fix everything. I thought that it was fun and bubbly, making for an easy read, but still hit some great points about finding out what’s really important.

Louisiana Lucky
By Julie Pennell

What happens when your dreams of winning the lottery comes true?

This is a story about the three Breaux sisters Lexi, Callie and Hanna from a small town in Louisiana where their struggle for money can mean the answer to all their troubles or so it seems when they hit a 204 million dollar lottery jackpot.

The writing by Julie Pennell was light, engaging and truly heartwarming. She wrote wonderfully relatable characters that were fun to read about and kept me engaged throughout the book. There is always that sweet charm in the writing and why I love reading Southern Fiction so much!

I highly recommend this book if you enjoy southern women's fiction that is light and heartwarming, do not miss this book!

I love a good story about people who win the lottery (hello Luck series by Kate Claiborne) but on like page two the main characters' ages were noted, the oldest one was 29 and I felt like this wasn’t going to be for me.

Louisiana Lucky by Julie Pennell was a fun, quick read and made for the perfect weekend, relaxing escape into a book. This book appealed to me because I really like stories based in family relationships & this book is a fun romp through sister connections. It focuses on the story of three sisters who win the lottery (what a fun concept!) and the changes that come to their lives and the results of those changes. It is a fun book!
Thank you to NetGalley for the complimentary copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

As the reader, I really enjoyed the idea of the story but in the beginning it is obvious what will happen as the three main characters win the lottery which took some of the entertainment value away. Then I did nor really enjoy how all three decided to be frivolous and make poor choice after poor choice which eventually leads them back to where they were. This story was different and I would say that I liked it.

Does winning the lottery bring happiness or more headaches? As Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “Money buys everything, except morality and citizens.”

In this novel, we follow 3 sisters who won the lottery. Each chapter is about one of the sisters and their ups and downs brought by this new wealth.

Verdict : Money does help realizing dreams, but relationships cannot be bought. A light read ! Perfect to relax.

Louisiana Lucky is a light and easy read by Julie Pennell. Three sisters win the lottery and as alternating narrators, they begin to plot and plan for how they will improve their lives with this money (think private schools, dream vacations, and a lavish wedding). They all adore their parents and plan to improve theirs lives, too.

The book is a fun read, with humor and family relations, and it really makes you ponder the question...Can money bring you happiness?

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A story of happiness, luck, fitting in and finding your own way. All of these things found within the great state of Louisiana, my home sweet home.

This was a super fast and easy read, I completely enjoyed this one! Winning the lotto is everyone’s dream right? We all think money is the answer, but is it really? I know for my husband and I, were always throwing ideas out about what we would do if we won. In this novel, three sisters find out what money can and what it can’t do. I really loved the bits of Louisiana culture thrown in, eating gumbo with potato salad (yes 2 starches in one meal haha!), the New Orleans references, everything. It was fun, it was sad but, it was ultimately a great read that I highly recommend!

Special thanks to the author, Atria books and NetGalley for allowing me access to read the advanced readers copy. I really flew through this read, I’d categorize it as a perfect beachy or weekend read.

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I just finished LOUISIANA LUCKY and it was just the delightfully fun distraction I needed as I finish my final week of summer school! The Breaux sisters are so cute, but also thoughtful and relatable, and I didn’t want my time with them to end. ⁣
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You know the phrase “more money, more problems”? Well, I’m not spoiling anything when I say that the Breaux sisters experience this on an extreme level, rather unexpectedly, and the way in which they handle this situation is what makes their story one to remember. ⁣

Hanna, Callie and Lexi Breaux grew up learning about hard work, saving your pennies and tons of love. Even now that they are older and Hannah is married with two children, they’ve stayed close with family Sundays, girls’ nights and plenty of contact. They do have a ‘tradition’ that is just their own – each girls’ night they buy three lotto tickets, two randomized numbers and one with numbers that are personal. It took years, but finally they won and split over 200 million.

What follows is the tale as each tries to ‘improve’ their lives, while discovering that more money does truly mean more problems – and just how can they have ‘it all’, and not lose themselves in the process. Aside from helping their parents, the girls made dramatic changes to their own lives: perhaps some they had dreamed of, but nothing was that simple. Hanna always wanted her children to go to the elite school in town: but while the children were thriving, she was floundering with the cliques and judgment from the parents, always feeling insecure and chasing that acceptance that came so easily to her in every situation before. Lexi, working as a hairdresser and struggling to make ends meet while her fiancé is finishing veterinary school is planning a simple wedding laden with meaningful moments for them both- and is derailed with her need to have her mother-in-law and her country-club set find her amazing and worthy. Callie an investigative reporter for the town’s flagging newspaper hasn’t really looked further than the next story, except to wonder about the ‘zings’ from her co-worker finds that being flattered and courted by the local news anchor may open the world to new possibilities.

This was such a wonderful and fun story: while the girls lost their perspectives on what was truly important, the one constant was their reliance on one another and the way that the ‘common sense’ they had been raised with and experienced in their lives up to that point did finally take hold as several ‘disastrous in the moment’ events happened to show them what truly was important. Family, joy and coming together while chasing your dreams- the most realistic ones, is what matters. Full of laughter, tears and some lovely writing – this is a story to put a smile on your face.

I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.

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