This book was my first by Opal Carew and I truly enjoyed it. The plot was a bit on the faster side but it had been a very welcomed steaming hot ride. April has been shy all her life and because of her past,  she wants just one....to be loved and cared for. When she thought she´s found her HEA and finally could get married, she has caught him cheating on their wedding date. Not only was the wedding off but because of his big ego, he left her humiliated and with a load of debt. Right at the worst moment of her life Quinn - her college sweetheart walks into the mess and takes over her debts. She has never expected to see him again after things were left, yet here he was being her hero. They made an arrangement...she would be his for the next month. What she hasn´t expected was to get into ménage à trois and fall in love with Quinn and his best friend. But because of her past, she wants to stay independent and doesn´t want to be seen as a golddigger. Can all of them meet their expectations and build trust again?

I really enjoyed this book. I would love to read a book strictly about their past together as well. Having snippets is nice but The full story would be a good one. Moving a past relationship with two people to a menage is always s a tricky thing to do since the 2 people have that history and that connection. But I think that Austin was a good buffer between the two. It would have been a great twist if Austin and Quinn were in a relationship together and never thought about adding a female till April came along. Always love Opal's writing and will always be a fan of hers!

This was my first erotic romance I have read and I loved it! I thought it had a nice story to it and wasn't over the top. I would read from this author again.

Good for a quick, dirty read. The author throws everything she can at Riana/April (I read an April version) to ensure she has no option available besides Quinn and Austin. I hope the plot and formatting issues are resolved by the time the book goes to press.
I received an ARC from Netgalley and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

Stroke of Luck is my first book by Opal Carew. We meet April, whose fiance has left her at the altar and with an astronomical hotel bill. By luck, her ex-boyfriend and now multi-millionaire passes her by in the hallway, and April's luck changes. Totally realistic, right?
This is not a bad story, but I was hoping for something with a little more character development and variety. The characters are two dimensional, and I think both April and Quinn could have had a lot more depth, which would have made the story and their reunion and sex much more meaningful. The sex scenes were pretty hot but quite repetitive, even in vocabulary - I think even these could have been used to develop the characters, their feelings, and their changing relationship. I try to keep my expectations lower when reading erotica, so this one isn't bad, but it isn't amazing. I did love the Vegas setting.
2.5 stars rounded up to 3.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC is exchange for honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

2 stars

I've seen Opal Carew's name around for ages but I had never picked up one of her titles for myself. I saw this come up on NetGalley and thought it looked like a sexy summer read. It certainly was a sexy read, there is no doubt about that. But sadly, it was little more than that. I found it to be filled with tropes and April the lead character was spineless, aimless and helpless. She lacked any sort of personality at all. It started to really bother me that she had no friends, no family and was at the whims of every male character she came across. I could have really enjoyed this story more if the character was able to stand up for herself and pull herself out of a back situation. The novel was aptly named because she really did get all of her breaks in life due to a stroke of luck.

I requested this one because I had heard really great things about Opal Carew's books in the past, but this unfortunately didn't really do it for me. I didn't like the writing style OR the characters.

Wow! Just wow! This book has it all....drama, angst, a little revenge, love and sex! Lots of hot hot sex! Ms. Carew keeps us entertained and engaged.

I have read and loved Opal Carew in the past, but this one just didn't work for me. I'm hoping that my biggest problem is just a formatting error in this ARC version that will be corrected before hitting shelves. There were [chapter and section] breaks in places that seemed odd, then about half way through the book, there started being no breaks where the should have been. As far as the story goes, I just found that things weren't believable, even for fiction. The feelings of the characters, the reasons they did or reacted to certain events, the time flow of the story, they all just didn't work for me.

Stroke of Luck
By: Opal Carew
2.8 / 5.0

This book was mainly just dialogue. It was a book full of passion and lust, but that’s about it. There was no character building or feeling any kind of emotions for the characters. It was just all about their physical attraction to one another. The focus on just their lust for each other made the characters seem a little sex obsessed. It had a lot of potential to show the inside look of a throple (three person couple). Half way through the reading I realized I didn’t care about the characters and that if it didn’t pan out for them then oh well.
I didn’t like the constant page breaks that I thought weren’t needed. The whole book could have been in the third person with no page breaks. There was no need to have her point of view (but still in third person) and then his point of view (in the third person) and then back to hers in the span of a few pages. The book, also, made it seem like everything was happening in the span of a few days, but a little over a month had passed. I would have enjoyed the book more if it had added more depth to the characters and their backstory.


Author’s Site: https://opalcarew.com/

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This review will appear on my blog on December 1, 2020.

I think I wanted to like this more than I did. But still it was a fun quick read with great characters and just the right amount of drama.

The story centers around a woman who is in Las Vegas and cancelled the wedding because of her fiances fooling around with a maid.
She is humiliated by her fiance for cancelling the wedding and then runs into her former boyfriend Quinn and his partner Austin.


The overall structure of the novel is very lame. The characters are uninterested. And the sex is nothing to make one aroused.

I'm not usually a reader of erotica but I figured I'd branch out a bit. Overall this was pretty satisfying though definitely some of the usual flowery descriptions of body parts that get old very quickly. But it was fun and an interesting plot line in between all the sex.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC, I'm not usually a fan of erotica, but requested the book for the cover and description and for a bit of a change to my usual reads.
this had a good and believable story line, many sex scenes, good chemistry between characters
Enjoyed the read as the relationship between characters developed
April was supposed to be married, she caught her fiancee (making love) to another woman on the day before their wedding day, obviously she calls off the wedding and now he wants everything back, leaving her with nothing. She runs into an old boyfriend and things heat up from there.
A good read if you are looking for some hot sex scenes

This book is extremely steamy; I hadn't read this author before, so I didn't know that it would be one MFM sex scene after another. The early story line is interesting and engaging... you want to know how April will survive. Unfortunately, the answer is cliche and unbelievable (with a flat-out reference to Pretty Woman). The characters don't really grow through the novel and seemed rather flat. The author does try to give them depth with a shared backstory and an inauspicious start to life for our female protagonist, but there is so much character development that could have been explored. If you are looking for something hot and heavy without strings attached, this is a quick and satisfying read -- a one night stand for the reader. However, like another reviewer, I was skimming the sex scenes near the end. Too much sex without substance for me.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions above are my own.

Stoke of Luck is fast paced and deliciously sexy, with an engaging story-line and sensuous characters. If you love insta EVERYTHING then this book is for you, I received an advanced copy of this book and am enthusiastically leaving an honest review.

IA quick and steamy read with a simple story. The gorgeous cover created certain expectations and they were definitely answered. I'm not sure I liked the characters that much, but there was a plot to provide the backbone to all the hot (and I mean hot!) scenes. I will definitely try another book by this author.

This book has all the heat you’d expect from Opal Carew. If you’re looking for a steamy threesome read look no further. My only issue was there were several parts of the plot line that didn’t feel very plausible and the breaks in the text didn’t make much sense to the flow of the story since they didn’t really signify change in character perspective.

This book didn't do it for me. The characters were not people I wanted to devote a lot of time to and I found them maddening and annoying.

Hot Hot Hot!!! What a steamy story. There is actually a story too. But let's be honest. I read it for the steamy bits. Oh baby, those steamy bits.