Just My Luck
Jennifer Honeybourn
Published by: Swoon Reads
Publication date: July 16th 2019
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Marty has terrible luck and she knows exactly why. While working as a housekeeper at the ritzy Grand Palms hotel in Maui, Marty made it a habit to steal small items from the guests. What better way to stick it to the rich snobs they have to clean up after? Marty knows how to turn her luck around — she just has to return all of the items she stole.
When Marty meets Will, a new guest who is staying for the summer, she does the one thing she always promised herself she’d never do — fall for an out-of-towner. But Will’s special, different from the other guests at the hotel. Maybe Marty’s luck is finally turning around.
After a string of misunderstandings and accidents threaten Will and Marty’s relationship, Marty has to find a way to fix her luck for good — or say goodbye to Will forever.
Our Review
A story about winning against Karma.
Marty works are a resort in Maui and she knows better than anyone not to get involved with the tourists—she'd only gets a heartbreak from it. But her luck in on the negative lately, and bad things keep happening to her, to the point she's lost her car, her boyfriend and her best friend is going the same direction. So it's not surprising when she falls for Will, who's in the best room with his brother for the month and for whom she now needs to act as private guide tour.
There are many positive aspects in this book, but my favorite is the description of Maui. They're smoothly inserted there, and it feels like a native is really teaching us about Hawaii as we go along. I confess I didn't know a thing of what was there so it was a real a pleasure.
I was hoping for the bad luck incidents to be more funny, but this isn't really a book I laughed that much. Marty is just too frightened and that seemed to go into me, every time something happened, I got as frustrated as she did. It was clearly impossible to laugh.
And have I mentioned how much I love the cover? That picture of the beach wouldn't have done it for me but together with everything else it made for a perfect show of what to expect of the story. Swoon Reads just gets better with each title.
As for down points, I didn't think it was the best romance. Will is a nice guy and I'd probably fall for him too, but I didn't see the sparkles. Even the meet-cute wasn't that cute in my opinion. Concomitantly, that didn't matter. This is not just a romance but also about Marty getting over herself and doing things right, that's why I loved the ending. Unfortunately, I can't go in details for obvious reasons, but as fitting as it was, I didn't think the author would actually do it.
This is another good title in Swoon Reads catalog and I was super glad I could read it.
Honest review based on an ARC provided by the blog tour and Netgalley. Many thanks to the publisher for this opportunity.
Author Bio:
Jennifer Honeybourn works in corporate communications in Vancouver, British Columbia. She’s a fan of British accents, Broadway musicals, and epic, happily-ever-after love stories. If she could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, she’d have high tea with Walt Disney, JK Rowling, and her nana. She lives with her husband, daughter and cat in a house filled with books. Wesley James Ruined My Life is her first novel.
I love the cover too I think it's unique and really beach/summery fun! Great review, Anita! This sounds right up my alley! :)
ReplyDeleteI was extremely glad I got the chance to review this book!
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