Help, I have fallen into an Alexandria Bellefleur rabbit hole and I don't want to come out. She puts something extraordinary things into her books and I can't get enough.

As expected, Alexandria has given us a well-rounded story with lovable characters and some good steamy scenes. I love a good sapphic relationship and was really happy with how this was represented in the book. I really love the second chance romance in this book, I thought it was refreshing to see this trope in a couple that is on the younger side of what you'd expect in this trope.

Some of the more millennial jokes didn't land as well as I would have wanted for myself, they aren't a deal-breaker. The miscommunication trope is hit and miss for me. I think it was navigated well for the most part, but if this is something you really dislike, maybe consider that before heading into this book.

The action of the book was really well-paced and if you are looking for a fun romance book, this is the one for you. I do recommend reading the other books in the series first, but it isn't necessarily needed.

Thank you Harper Collins Canada and NetGalley for the e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I was nervous going into this book. I loved the first book in the Written in the Stars series, but was not a fan of the second book in

Honestly this is my favorite in the Written in the Stars series. Margot has been my favorite character since book one and I love that this book focuses on her story.

My event-planning heart swelled meeting Olivia - I related to her alot being so meticulous and organized as she is. I also related to Margot when she was feeling like the fifth wheel in her friend group.

What Worked for me:
-Margot. I loved finally getting her POV on things and I laughed so much at her internal monologues
-the rest of the characters - I love this group so much and I feel like I’m part of the gang when I read these books. My friends and I love game nights as much as this crew does.


What Didn’t Work for me:
-miscommunication trope


Recommended if you like:
-second chance romance
-father/daughter stories
-weddings
-open door romance. Wayyy open. No door at all, really.
-dual POV romance
-Seattle


Thanks to Netgalley and Avon for my ARC. Count Your Lucky Stars is out now!

Well Bellefleur did it again! This book was amazing. It was steamy, funny, and heartfelt. Really all the things you want in a romance.

I loved the characters. Olivia was a little annoying at times but I mean I get it I overreact sometimes also. We all do.

Bellefleur just writes these stories so well that you pick them up and don't want to put them down. So they are a breeze to read.

I would recommend this to anyone. And I can't wait to read Bellefleur's next book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon Books for this eARC.

Margot and Olivia are childhood best friends turned lovers turned strangers turned friends again! I loved the balance between humor and seriousness but absolutely hated all the miscommunication! It was great getting glimpses of the characters from the previous books and getting to celebrate a wedding with them! Margot was my favorite character from the previous books so I loved getting to read a book just on her! I was really happy with the epilogue because it summed up everyone's story perfectly!

I think this book was my favorite of the bunch!

I really enjoyed the first two books of this series so I was excited to read this one.

This is the love story of Margot and Olivia. We saw all of Margot’s friends find love in the other books and now it’s her turn. She went to school with Olivia and had a little fling with her years ago, and they haven’t seen each other since. Unexpectedly Olivia is the wedding planner for a wedding that Margot is in. They start spending a lot of time together and unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, so she becomes Margot’s roommate. Soon the sparks fly.

I enjoyed this is one just has much as the other two books. It’s a fun second chance romance filled with spice. Margot and Olivia’s chemistry was on point and there were some comical moments between the two of them throughout the book that made me laugh and smile. I also loved having the characters from the other books make appearances throughout the book. I’m pretty sure this is the last installment of the series and I’m sad to see it end.

A huge thank you to NetGalley and the publsiher for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Avon & Harper Audio for my gifted review copy of Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur.

This series is just so gorgeous, swoonworthy, sexy & fun - I can hardly take it!! Alexandria Bellefleur is a must-read author for me.

First, the audio narration is incredible; Lauren Sweet is so fantastic! I just devoured this book. It's such an easy listen; the time flew by. A hallmark of a great audiobook for me is when I find time to make my walk longer or I actually enjoy folding laundry because the audiobook is so good. I totally folded an extra load of laundry because I couldn't wait to see what happened to these two!

And check out these tropes:
Friends to lovers then enemies, then forced proximity while planning a wedding, oops, we have to be roommates because of convenience, working together and we use to be friends, how about even more forced proximity & finally back to lovers.

All the stars for this female / female romance. This series is so wonderful, I would recommend it to all romance readers. I can totally see this series becoming a comfort reread for me. So wonderful!

Count Your Lucky stars did not really do it for me. It was cute but just not my cup of tea.

There are a couple of reasons I thought it was just okay. The first was I didn’t really like Margot much. She’s fine, but there wasn’t anything that drew me to her. I just didn’t connect much with her. I liked Olivia a little more, but she was also not someone I felt connected with.

The other issue I had, which happens a lot in second chance romance books, was that I didn’t feel like enough of a connection between the characters. The fact we are told they were high school friends seemed to be enough, but these two didn’t have a ton in common, and I would have liked to explore their relationship a little more. Perhaps if this had been written in the first person, it would have helped, I don’t know.

Overall I liked what the story was trying to do, but it fell flat for me.

Count Your Lucky Stars is the third book in Alexandria Bellefleur's Written in the Stars series - though they can really be read as standalones - and it is awesome! I'm not a frequent romance reader but I have a special place in my heart for queer romcoms and this is one of the best.

Margot and Olivia used to be best friends - and maybe something more? - until a giant misunderstanding and hurt feelings ended their friendship. Now, more than a decade later, they are quite literally thrown together and maybe, just maybe, have a second chance at love.

This book has all of the elements that you want from a romcom - bright, whimsical setting, sparkly dialogue, sweet and silly contrived scenarios and did I mention spice? DANG Y'ALL. It also passes the Bechdel test with flying colors, because female friendships - more like found family, the support and love they show each other is incredible - is celebrated in this book. But really, this book gets so many points from me because it so seamlessly incorporates queer relationships into a traditional romcom narrative. Representation is so important and I just beam thinking about the romance fans who will read this and will have the perspective changed, even just a little bit. Not to mention us queer ladies deserve to see ourselves on the page!

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Avon Books, and of course the author for access to this book in exchange for my honest review.

Second chance romance is my absolute favorite trope and I was hoping since book 1 that Margot would get a book of her own, so I knew that I was going to love this book.

The wait was definitely worth it and did not disappoint at all. Margot and Olivia are everything. They had such good chemistry together. I also loved getting to see the other characters from the previous books and catching up with them as well.

I'm so sad that this series is over but my heart is full after reading the ending. I'm happy with the way things turned out for everyone.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granted me an advance reader copy.

College, a marriage, and a divorce lead Olive landing a job as an event planner, where she ultimately is planning the wedding of Margot's close friends in Seattle. Estranged childhood friends miraculously meet again. Olive and Margot drifted apart after catching feelings for one another but never discussing it. Both have their own versions of how it went down, each blaming the other.
An apartment emergency leaves Olive with nowhere to go, so Margot offers her spare bedroom, making them roommates. Old feelings start to resurface in both of them, leading to a few steamy encounters. Still not discussing their feelings with one another causes some hiccups when Margot's friends try to play matchmaker with Olive. Jealousy rears its ugly head, outing their secret, and forcing them to come clean about their feelings.

Book 3 of the series did not disappoint.
Sexy and heartwarming, I loved this sapphic story, and can't wait to continue reading from this author.

3.5 ⭐️

I just wasn't super impressed with this one. I feel like a lot could have been done with the story, but it seemed so quick? The hate to love then friendship to love was whipping me back and forth while reading this.

I did enjoy the setting, but ultimately wished there was more conflict in this book and development of chemistry between the two main love interests. I know that they were previously friends so this is a second-chance romance, but I thought a lot more could have been done with it to develop that story and make us really fall in love with them.

The spice was great! Not a ton, but honestly didn't need a lot because the relationship was not as developed. I think this was a fine time, and good for readers who just want a quick sapphic romance- not too deep, but something to entertain for a little bit!

xx
-Christine

Olivia is a wedding planner assistant in Seattle. She's a recent divorcee, just moved to the big city and is trying to focus on her career and do what makes her happy for the first time in a very long time.
She is assigned a huge VIP wedding last minute and when she gets to the venue to meet the future spouses, lo and behold, the groom's best woman is Margot.

Olivia and Margot used to be best friends in highschool. During a break, they hooked up and had incredible sex for a week, but then Olivia's ex-boyfriend got back and the two best friends grew distant without ever really talking about what had happened between them.

Margot has a different recollection of that break. She felt abandoned by Olivia, never told she had feelings for her and now she finds herself offering her spare room to Olivia after Olivia's apartment gets flooded. And their cohabitation... might come with benefits and a whole pandora box of sparks and unexpressed feelings.

This was... okay? I loved, loved loved the sex scenes and there were MANY. Alexandria Bellefleur knows what she's talking about and that is uncommon, nice and refreshing to see in wlw romance books published by bigger (not indie) publishers.
I liked Olivia and her relationship with her dad but for most of the book I couldn't really stand Margot. I understand she had her issues and fears to work through and you can never be too "mature" when it comes to intense feelings but she took it to another level by refusing to say anything about what she was feeling and just acting casual with Olivia or super sweet when they were alone to only later act in public like she couldn't be bothered but was in fact super jealous and petty. Like, a man would flirt with Olivia and Margot would send Olivia texts about how she made her orgasm. That kind of borders on toxic and manipulative? It made me slightly uncomfortable.
They were both in their late thirties, so I would have expected more maturity in handling things by both women, but Margot in particular was a bit too much.

Anyways, the chemistry was there, the banter and jokes were hilarious and more than once I found myself laughing out loud. That, coupled with the good queer rep (Olivia is bi and Margot is pan) and the nice lgbt+ group of friends, made me in the end enjoy this quite a bit!

PS. I didn't read the previous books in this series and I don't think I will, since I wasn't particularly interested in the other side characters that had been main characters in the previous two books (Darcy and Elle in "Written in the stars" and Brandon and Annie in "Hang the moon") but that's okay. Both couples got their happy endings in "Count your lucky stars" and I'm satisfied.

I have been invested in this friend group from the beginning and love that Margot gets her own story and HEA. This book was fun and sweet and steamy, all the things! Alexandria Bellefleur is an auto-read author for me at this point.

Thank you to @netgally and The publisher

Count your Lucky stars

Umm.. I didn’t love this book. I don’t usually rate books lower than 3 stars. I mostly like every book I read but this one wasn’t it for me. I couldn’t finish it and dnfed it at 10%

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for the arc.

I liked the previous two books in the series well enough so figured this would also be the case for Count Your Lucky Stars. It was a nice easy read for me but nothing extraordinary. I loved the banter and the humor in the book was appreciated. However...

I strongly dislike the "miscommunication" trope especially when it's characters in their late 20s/early 30s. It comes across as extremely melodramatic and bogs down the story for me. I /do love second chance romances but not when it's been over ten years and yet somehow they happen to lock eyes and just instantly are in love again. Like, take me on the journey! I'd take that level of angst over miscommunication.

As I said, it's a nice easy read but not something I would read again.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC, in return for an honest review. While I really wanted to love this book, it just wasn’t for me. I do enjoy some spicy scenes in the context of a well written plot line but I felt like this one was more spice, less story. I totally can appreciate that this may be for others though, just not my cup of tea, and that’s totally okay! There were some cute moments, I wish the friendship backstory could have been a bit more developed, I feel like there was a lot that could have been added to that and in beginning the way it flipped between the 2 characters had me a bit confused as to who was who. Overall it was a cute story but it was a little too much spice and not enough story for me..

I received an e-arc of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

5/5 stars

There is just something about this series that always gets me in so many different ways and this book was no exception. I literally laughed out loud a couple of times while reading this and also teared up towards the end.

This book was super sweet and a great addition to the series. It's nice that even though I know nothing about Astrology I can still understand and appreciate this series. This book did have fewer of the random categories at the beginning of chapters to pair up your Astrology sign to something which I was slightly sad about as I do think it's a fun addition to the story.

I think that Alexandria Bellefleur does an amazing job with characterization and always gives me enough to understand where they are all coming from and to be able to relate in some way. Of our two main characters I'm probably more of an Olivia myself, always trying to help people sometimes even when I shouldn't but I also understand Margot as well and can see some of myself in her as well.

Margot and Olivia had a bit of a complicated relationship in the past going from best friends to lovers to not speaking at all due to some miscommunication. Now 11 years later Olivia ends up thrust back into Margots life as the wedding planner for Brendon and Annie's upcoming wedding. Then to make matters worse Olivia is in sudden need of a new place to live and Margot is still searching for a roommate. A second chance for love could be coming for them but will they both get out of their own ways and allow them to be happy or will they be their own downfall?

If there were to be more books in this series I would definitely pick them up even though I don't know who they would even feature. Either way this book has solidified Alexandria Bellefleur as a favorite author and an auto buy author.

Ahhh, I love this series so much!
Margot and Olivia were such a cute couple and I really liked their dynamic. Having all the characters from the previous books is such a treat! I will say that my favorite of the series will always be the first, Written in the Stars, but this is a close second!

Super LGBTQA friendly and adorable.

Yes I know I’m very late on finishing this one. I really wanted to love it, but it felt slow and I found myself skimming toward the end.

Margot and Olivia were best friends growing up, but that all changed one week in senior year. The two spent their spring break in pure bliss— finally they were together. But then things fell apart. Olivia got back together with her boyfriend Brad and changed her plans for college.

Ten years go by and they meet again. Olivia, fresh off her divorce with Brad, is now a wedding planner in Seattle. Margot is feeling like a fifth wheel in her friend group— especially since her friends have found their . While touring a venue for her friends’ upcoming wedding, in walks Olivia. After a series of unfortunate events, Olivia is now Margot’s new roommate. Do they ignore the past or reopen old wounds?

I wish there was more pining and “will they, won’t they?” I would’ve loved another 20% of the book with tension and them walking on egg shells around each other. It felt like all the hurt they suffered from the decade prior was ignored and a good portion of the book suffered from the “miscommunication trope”. Also, I did not feel the chemistry between them —other than physically. I love how the book revisited their past, but I wish there had been MORE of that. Also other than the occasional mention of them knowing that the other likes x, it did not feel like they really knew each other. I wanted more of development with their relationship. Finally, the book dragged from 60-80% and caused me to skim.

Why you might like it:
•sapphic romance
•childhood best friends to lovers to strangers to lovers
•mutual pining
•steamy
•second chance romance

Margot's best friends are getting married, and her other best friends recently got engaged. But she doesn't envy them for being in a relationship since she is perfectly happy with hookups. But while touring wedding venues with her friends she bumps into her old best friend (and old flame) Olivia. Olivia will be planning Annie and Brendon's wedding. Margot and Olivia haven't seen each other since high school, when a week of passion led them to grow apart and choose different paths. After a series of messes the two end up living together and the passion they once shared is still undeniable. They rekindle their friendship and it slowly turns into something more. But Olivia's ex keeps calling, her Dad is always on her mind and she is trying her hardest to plan a perfect wedding so she can finally get a promotion at work. All these obstacles lead to both woman to question if their relationship will last.

This was a great third and final book in the Written in the Stars trilogy. I loved that the epilogue was a perfect little summary of the three couples that I grew to love over the trilogy. I did really enjoy Olivia and Margot's story and it was a great friends to lovers romance. It did take longer for me to read than I expected because although the story was great it took me some time to really get into it.