This book is the standout star of its series. I honestly didn't enjoy Written In the Stars and Hang the Moon was fun but not much more, but I stuck with it to get to Margot and it was worth it. Her painful vulnerability is so relatable and makes the romance ache in the best way. Olivia's uncertainty and budding self-confidence are also heartstring-pullers and make you root even harder for them. Her relationship with her ex, too, is wildly relatable and true to life to those of us who have ever sacrificed ourselves for undeserving, emotionally abusive men and found the strength to leave and finally prioritize ourselves. This final book in the trilogy has the emotional weight and tight pacing its predecessors we're missing and makes it a fun, engaging romance.

This may have been my favorite of Alexandria Bellefleur's series. I really enjoyed the first two. This ones features Margo and another female character, and the two of them together are wonderful. I enjoy stories of lost love interests reunited. It liked seeing them overcome some relationship fears that they have and work through some baggage from the past. As well, this was steamy, but not overly so. I liked seeing the way characters like Elle, Darcy, Brandon and Annie were worked in from previous books - this series feels like an ongoing saga of friends and siblings' relationships. I hope Alexandria Bellefleur writes more books like this soon!

I was excited when I got the NetGalley approval for Count Your Lucky Stars! I really enjoyed the first two books and couldn’t wait to to see how the series wrapped up with Margot’s story. This was such a sweet, character driven, steamy romance. It was well written, and perfectly paced. I am not overly into astrology, but enjoyed reading about it, and loved that it was an ongoing theme. I have loved the unique mix of characters throughout the series. They’re relatable, well developed and I enjoyed getting a chance to catch up with them. Olivia was instantly lovable, and the perfect addition to the group. All in all, I really enjoyed reading CYLS. It was lol funny, a quick read, and a great conclusion to the series. Although… I wouldn’t be upset if Bellefleur gave us one more book. 😉😉

4/5⭐️
What I enjoyed;
💫 Childhood friends to lovers
💫 Second chance queer rom-com
💫 Astrology theme
💫 Cat

I would definitely recommend reading Count Your Lucky Stars! If you haven’t read the first two books in the Written in the Stars series, I personally would say to start from the beginning.

Thank you NetGalley, Avon Books, and Alexandria Bellefleur for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review. My review will be posted on Instagram and Goodreads.

Count Your Lucky Stars is the perfect finale to a delightful romance trilogy. Olivia and Margot gave me all the feels. There's so much pining, and flirting, and um, HELLO, it's a saphhic romance?! It was refreshing to have a sapphic book/romance that wasn't filled to the brim with tragedy.

If you love Sapphic romance, second chance romance, grumpy/sunshine romance, or friends-to-lovers romance, then this book is definitely for you!

Margot has always been the cynical, no-nonsense friend in this group and watching her go gooey for Liv was adorable. Margot is also one of the most likeable characters for me so I loved seeing her get a happily ever after instead of just being delegated to best friend.

Thanks NetGalley and Avon for this E-ARC. I cannot wait to have this on audio.

Just like the first two books in the series Count Your Lucky Stars is a funny, fast-paced romance full of pop culture references, magnetic queer characters, and a cat named Cat. The 3rd book in the series follows Margot’s love story, Elle’s friend and business partner from Written in the Stars.

Margot loves her friends, but while she isn’t in any rush to jump into a relationship, she would maybe like to stop feeling like the perpetual 5th wheel. When Brendan and Annie’s wedding venue is wrecked, and they bring in a wedding planner 3 weeks before the big day, Margot comes face to face with Olivia. Her ex best friend and teenage love she hasn’t spoken to in a decade.

Olivia and Margot’s dynamic is really interesting because even though they had a falling out they don’t seem to have any real animosity for each other. Their dialogue and mannerisms are really well written, and it does a great job showing their years of friendship.

While I don’t like miscommunication typically as a plot device it makes sense here because their issues are based on choices they made as teenagers, and an unwillingness to dredge up the past. The only part of the book that falls flat for me is the end, It feels a little abrupt, and I wish we had one or two more chapters before the epilogue.

Overall this last book really wraps up the series nicely, giving each couple their own happily ever after. You could read this as a standalone, but reading the whole series definitely enhances the story.

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This was such a cute read! The ending did feel a bit abrupt and like I wanted a bit more. Would definitely recommend though!

This was my first time reading a book by Alexandria Bellefleur, and with how much I enjoyed Count Your Lucky Stars, I will definitely be coming back for more. Not only did this book have some of my favourite tropes in romance (second chance romance, forced proximity), it just felt right. The chemistry was apparent, and I couldn’t have asked for a better HEA to wrap it all up. Really my only issue was that it felt as if some supporting characters fell a little flat at times, though that may be because this is the only book I’ve read in the Written in the Stars trilogy.
Like any good romance book, my absolute favourite part of this was the romance. The chemistry, the yearning, those moments when the characters almost go for it and don’t, and then when they finally do. But even further, I loved how even though the main relationship was sapphic, there was never a point where the characters were having to deal with any homophobia. There were some very subtle undertones of the way the pressures to conform to a heterosexual relationship can affect a sapphic couple, but it was never a main point of the story. And I’m glad for it. Margot and Olivia’s obstacles have nothing to do with that, and it was nice to enjoy a sapphic romance without having to constantly worry about the homophobic trauma that could be inflicted upon the characters.
Second, I really did enjoy the character development within this book. Margot and Olivia are a great example of a couple that’s fairly different from one another but still work together really well. Despite their differences, there’s never some ugly moment in which one of the characters is almost insinuating that because they’re more or less feminine, or some other trait, they’re better than the other. There are some communication issues, but they’re understandable when you realise that a. both the characters were teenagers when it originally happened, and b. no one wants to rehash every detail of a painful experience after eleven years of being apart.
Ultimately, I really enjoyed this book. There were moments I worried that the HEA was coming too soon, but Bellefleur beautifully weaved together all these character’s stories, and past relationships into one beautiful romance. COUNT YOUR LUCKY STARS was hard to put down, but wholly satisfying when I finally turned to that last page, and I couldn’t recommend more.

"I'm pretty sure a part of me has been waiting for you for eleven years."

I dub Alexandria Bellefleur the queen of romantic comedy. This book had spice, witty banter, and the emotional heartbeat. This was a delightful read that left me feeling ooey and gooey. I was swooning over Margot and Liv's love declarations. Tropes include second chance romance, sunshine & grumpy, jealously, and a vibrator scene involving a cat!

I love the way that Bellefleur crafts her characters. I deeply related to Margot. She is one of my all-time favorite characters. I love her whit and banter with her friends. Margot's strength and vulnerability were showcased through talking about her fears. It was an emotional journey for Margot, and I loved loved reading about it. I did find the 3rd act to be slightly frustrating. But, the ending wrapped up the story so beautifully. I hope she writes more books in this world.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Eleven years ago, Margot and Olivia were inseparable. Now, it's been over a decade since they last spoke, until Olivia is enlisted to plan Margot's best friend's wedding. Before they know it, they're living together and growing close again, but are they destined to end this time too?

Alexandria Bellefleur has become one of my must-read authors, and this book just cements that. Every book in the Written in the Stars series has been just as good as the one before, all easily earning 5* ratings. Count Your Lucky Stars provides the same funny and heartfelt banter, the same lovable characters, an assortment of everyone's favorite tropes, all wrapped up in a perfectly bingeable package. I feel like I'm constantly on the hunt for great sapphic romances, and I know Bellefleur will never let me down.

My favorite part about this book is how easy it is to relate to both Olivia and Margot. It's something Bellefleur does incredibly well--somehow every character is relatable, easy to see yourself in and easy to root for. The way Margot's feelings about being the last single person in her friend group are portrayed felt so real and natural to me--how even when you know it's irrational, even when you don't particularly want a serious relationship, it's hard not to feel like you're getting left behind. She's such a strong character throughout both this book and the previous two, and I loved getting to see her vulnerabilities. Olivia was a new character, but no less lovable. My heart broke for her, and I cheered for her with every step forward.

Count Your Lucky Stars will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, but it goes so much deeper than that. Reading this--binging it, really--my emotions ran the whole gambit. I laughed, I cried, I had to take a break because I was getting almost TOO invested. The epilogue made me sob happy tears, and the spice made me sweat. Margot and Olivia's romance was just so wonderful, and all the crumbs from the other two couples were endearing. I just loved everything about this book, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

I absolutely adored Olivia. She is literally like sugar and spice and then Margot is black coffee but these two somehow work so well together. I really enjoyed getting to see a more vulnerable side to Margot because she's known to be a straight shooter and now she's getting all flustered with her words every time she is around Olivia. The romance can be frustrating at times because both Margot and Olivia struggle with communicating how they feel because they fear that it might push the other away. But there is no denying the chemistry between these two! I would probably say that Count Your Lucky Stars is the sexiest book in this series and it's all due to Margot's dirty talking skills.

Margot and Olivia – two, inseparable best friends for the longest time. That is, until they have a hot Spring Break fling while Olivia was on a break from her boyfriend and she decides to reunite with him when he gets back into town.

Margot, heartbroken that Olivia would go back to Brad, doesn’t fight for their relationship and fades away from Olivia through college and their twenties. Olivia, unsure about where she stands with Margot, falls back into what she’s always known – she can’t afford to pay for an expensive college, Brad wants to be with her, and she ultimately makes the safe, logical choice.

Fast forward just over ten years. Olivia’s an event coordinator, and Margot is an app developer. They delightfully, blusteringly stumble into each other as Margot’s best friend is getting married and Olivia is running the event. Olivia’s apartment floods, and oh no! It looks like Margot better offer her guest bedroom. Because, you know, she’s a good friend. (Goodness – I am a sucker for forced proximity is all I’m saying)

They are off to the races, both with their feelings, their fallout over relationship statuses, and their steamy make out (and you know, ahem, and more) sessions. Not having read the first two of this series, I know I missed some relationship updates (and quite possibly, why there was a wedding for Olivia to event plan in the first place). That said, it did not detract from the story one iota. Olivia and Margot’s chemistry was electric, but their emotional honesty and willingness to work through their issues is what kept me glued.

I would happily recommend this book (sunshine and a loveable curmudgeon? Friends to lovers?! Emotional honesty?!). It was all excellent, and now I’m racing backwards to read the other titles!

This book was absolutely adorable and really helped me read when i didn’t have the time and was in a little bit of a slump. it’s technically the third book in the written in the stars series but can be read as a stand-alone. it’s a second chance, childhood friends to lovers romance and it’s so so good!

I adored the characters and I loved seeing the relationship between Margot and Olivia develop through the book. I also loved seeing the couples from the previous books and seeing where they’ve come and how they’ve grown and how their friendships have grown. the angst and tension between Margot and Olivia was palpable and I could not stop reading, I needed to know what they were thinking and how they were feeling and I wanted to just keep reading it. it was adorable and I would definitely recommend it. it had me smiling and laughing and a little bit hurting (third act conflict). it made me feel all the things and it was one of the first books I read for myself during school! definitely check it out if you’ve read the first two books.

Old best friends.. who might have had the worst break up after spending a week of being more than friends meet 11 years later and this just might be their second chance at love/ Margot Cooper and Olivia Grant have been best friends since forever, and one week during high school they realize the just might be more than just friends. A week of romance, sex, and just happiness all comes crashing down when Olivia’s ex boyfriend comes back and she gets back together with him, thus ending the friendship/potential relationship between the Margot and her. 11 years later, Olivia is divorced from Brad and working on her wedding planning career.... and she just happens to be Ben’s wedding planner, and Ben just happens to be Margot’s best friend. After finding out that her apartment is flooded she needs a place to stay... and Margot offers her her apartment. Now the two of them have to navigate old pain, their feelings still being there, and what they’re going to do now. Margot and Olivia will soon have to face their old history and what actually happened that week before their friendship ended and what it means for them going forth and if they can resist the sexual tension between the two of them. This is the third book in the series but can be read as a standalone ( though I would 100% recommend the other two books too!) we get fun cameos of the other couples. I loved Margot and Olivia. They were two people who have loved each other since forever but after a major misunderstanding neither knows what to do about their feelings for the other in fear of rejection or hurt. Margot cares for Olivia but is afraid Olivia will leave her again and that she won’t really mean anything to her. Olivia is in love with Margot but can’t understand her and doesn’t know if what they have between them is as special to Margot as it is to her. This one was definitely a steamy read ( I think it might be more so than the other two) but the romance was just as sweet and cute. I do adore long time yearning romance between two people who have history and oh boy do these two ladies have history. I would highly recommend this!

*Thanks Netgalley and Avon and Harper Voyager, Avon for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for access to the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Margot and Olivia are ex-best friends (and something more) that bump into each other 10 years later for a wedding they’re both involved in. And when Olivia needs a place to stay, Margot offers her spare room. Will this be their second chance?

I really enjoyed this read. Both Margot and Olivia are wonderful, complex women earnestly making their way through the world. Tension-building was A+, and I loved hopping between Margot and Olivia’s perspectives. And the whole cast of characters was great - I actually haven’t read the first two books but now they’re on my TBR!

5⭐️

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I am *obsessseddd* with this series. Annie and Brendon were my fave couple but Margot and Olivia had that second chance romance that we all CRAVE. I can’t stop recommending this to my friends, family, neighbors, random people at Starbucks…it’s the perfect ending to the series and makes me love Seattle even more. PLUS THE SPICE. It’s perfect. Not too much, not too little, it’s just right and it is HOT.

I just finished the arc for Count Your Lucky Stars and I absolutely loved it! I’ve really liked Margot since the first book and grew to love her more in this one. I related to her a lot. Reading about her struggles with love and the feeling she was losing her friends because they were all paired up struck close to home. I really enjoyed Olivia’s character as well. I can also relate to putting others needs before my own sometimes. I think they have a lot of chemistry and the spice was 🥵 I think this is probably the spiciest of the three books and that’s ok with me. Haha. Five stars for sure!

Count Your Lucky Stars is the third book in Alexandria Bellefleur's Written in the Stars series. The book releases on February 1st, 2022.  I absolutely loved Written in the Stars and was thrilled to see Margot get her own story. This is a very satisfying read for fans of the series.

Margot Cooper finds herself the proverbial fifth wheel in her friend group. Her best friend Elle is happily coupled with Darcy and Brendon, Darcy's brother is engaged to Annie. She feels like they are all attending a party that she isn't invited to. It's not like she would hate a relationship, it's just not in the stars for her. She's better with casual, feelings are highly overrated. As if the universe is conspiring against her even more, Brendon's wedding planner turns out to be Olivia Grant. The Olivia Grant who was once her best friend and who she spent the best week of her life sexing up all over Olivia's childhood home.

Her friends are oblivious as to her past with Olivia and think they're just old friends. So, when Olivia gets a call from her neighbor telling her she has to get out of her apartment due to flooding, they don't understand why Margot doesn't quickly offer up her place. She has a spare bedroom and Olivia's an old friend, right?  Margot feels the pressure and caves and the next thing she knows Olivia is moving in with her stuff and her cat, aptly named Cat. It doesn't take long for that old spark to return. But the past isn't easy for either of them to forgot. Will they be able to overcome their history to join the rest of the group in happy coupledom?

Since Written in the Stars I have been in love with Margot. Ok, truth alert, I skipped the second book because even though I love Brendon and Annie straight romances aren't my jam. Margot is the perfect balance of sarcasm and goodness. I may go so far as to say she reminds me of myself. Her week with Olivia was perfect until she choose to give Olivia an out and didn't express to her the depth of her feelings. That led to Olivia thinking it meant nothing to Margot and was just a week of fun. She then got back with her high school boyfriend, attended a different school than her and Margot were going to attend together and married said boyfriend.

It's easy to see how high school students would have communication issues. Olivia spent ten years in a marriage that never satisfied her because it's what she thought she was expected to do. Olivia is a people pleaser, even though her father pointed out how unhappy she seemed, she stayed in a marriage that didn't fulfill her. When she finally found the courage to leave she focused on making her career a success.  Margot and Olivia always belonged together but didn't have the courage to make themselves vulnerable. Years went by with neither finding the happiness they had experienced with each other.

I genuinely adore this book. These characters are fantastic. Olivia is the perfect ray of sunshine to go with Margot's snark and Darcy, Elle, Brendon and Annie are like old friends you haven't seen for a while but can jump right back in and feel comfortable with again. This book has humor. A cat attacks a vibrator. That right there should sell you on it. But it's also mighty hot!  Like blushing if you're reading it in public hot!  Alexandria Bellefleur has written another wonderful book. If you loved Written in the Stars, you won't want to miss this one!

Count Your Lucky Stars is my new favorite romance! Margot is determined to be a ray of sunshine for Annie and Brendan's wedding as the Best Woman. When her old classmate Olivia becomes the wedding planner for the quickly approaching wedding, both Olivia and Margot are taken back to their brief college romance. Olivia’s apartment abruptly floods….and then they are roommates once again. As they work together to pull off a magical wedding, they’re forced to re-examine what went wrong and address the spark between them.

Olivia and Margot have incredible chemistry. Their scenes together are steamy and charged with tension, making it impossible to look away. When they became roommates, I had to laugh because I knew shenanigans were incoming! This book was laugh-out-loud hilarious, with lots of witty banter. While there are many comedic moments, there is a deep and tender aspect to this book as well. Both Margot and Olivia need to work on their boundaries- to learn how to let someone in and how to cut out toxic people respectively.

On some level, everyone will be able to relate to the question of “what if this had played out differently?” that Olivia and Margot discover. Their story is such a warm, beautifully sapphic romance that it will be difficult for readers to put down. Margot identifies as pan and Olivia identifies as bi. I enjoyed Margot in previous books and loved getting to see more of her! It was wonderful to see cameos from Annie and Brendan, as well as Darcy and Elle. Count Your Lucky Stars might be my favorite book yet in the series! It gave me a serious book hangover. I’ll be eagerly awaiting whatever Alexandria Bellefleur writes next.

I loved Count Your Lucky Stars and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys second chance romance, mutual pining, and excellent sapphic romance. Count Your Lucky Stars releases February 1, 2022. Thank you to Alexandria Bellefleur, Avon & Harper Voyager, and Netgalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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I enjoyed the first two books in this trilogy and to be honest, Margot was one of my favorite character so I was eager to read her story. The initial plot was great - tension building, old friends reconnecting, etc. However as the book progressed it lost my attention. The plot lines became weak and I found the character development abruptly ended. I was hoping for something more.