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Count Your Lucky Stars
by Alexandria Bellefleur
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book understood the assignment. A spiky, grouchy girl is a total softy for the sunshine girl? Best friends to lovers to ex best friends to lovers again? Pacific Northwest vibes for days? Yes, yes, yes.
Margot Cooper and Olivia Grant used to be best friends in high school. Close enough that the line between 'friend' and 'girlfriend' was pretty much transparent. But Olivia had a boyfriend, and Margot stuffed her feelings deep down, convinced that having Olivia as a best friend was better than not having her at all. But, during an 'off' session in Olivia's on-again-off-again relationship with Brad, something happened. Margot and Olivia were suddenly Margot-and-Olivia! Until Brad came back, anyway.
Eleven years later, Olivia Grant works for a prominent event-planning service. When she takes on planning a wedding for a high profile client, she's in for a huge surprise. His Best Woman? Margot Cooper, beautiful as ever, and conveniently roommate-less when Olivia's apartment suffers irreparable water damage.
There is so much about this rom-com to love. I'm such a sucker for tropes. "And they were roommates!" Literally! Bellefleur knows her tropes and how to work them.
Also, the steam! I don't normally go for spicy romances, but reading this in public had me hiding my face. ❤️🔥
This little novel was super fun to read. I ate through it like a box of Girl Scout Cookies and didn't want to put it down (so I didn't. I finished this at 1 a.m. with work the next morning and I have no regrets). Stylistically, I felt like the writing could be better. Bellefleur relied on a few key phrases too much for my tastes–lots of "tongue darting" and bottom lip wetting. All of the characters sounded a bit samey in dialogue, especially the side characters, and there were several instances where a character internally narrated their reasonings for doing/thinking something and then proceeded to divulge that info in dialogue to another character verbatim, which felt repetitive.
Still, I would recommend this to anyone looking for a spicy sapphic read!
Margot Cooper and Olivia Grant used to be best friends in high school. Close enough that the line between 'friend' and 'girlfriend' was pretty much transparent. But Olivia had a boyfriend, and Margot stuffed her feelings deep down, convinced that having Olivia as a best friend was better than not having her at all. But, during an 'off' session in Olivia's on-again-off-again relationship with Brad, something happened. Margot and Olivia were suddenly Margot-and-Olivia! Until Brad came back, anyway.
Eleven years later, Olivia Grant works for a prominent event-planning service. When she takes on planning a wedding for a high profile client, she's in for a huge surprise. His Best Woman? Margot Cooper, beautiful as ever, and conveniently roommate-less when Olivia's apartment suffers irreparable water damage.
There is so much about this rom-com to love. I'm such a sucker for tropes. "And they were roommates!" Literally! Bellefleur knows her tropes and how to work them.
Also, the steam! I don't normally go for spicy romances, but reading this in public had me hiding my face. ❤️🔥
This little novel was super fun to read. I ate through it like a box of Girl Scout Cookies and didn't want to put it down (so I didn't. I finished this at 1 a.m. with work the next morning and I have no regrets). Stylistically, I felt like the writing could be better. Bellefleur relied on a few key phrases too much for my tastes–lots of "tongue darting" and bottom lip wetting. All of the characters sounded a bit samey in dialogue, especially the side characters, and there were several instances where a character internally narrated their reasonings for doing/thinking something and then proceeded to divulge that info in dialogue to another character verbatim, which felt repetitive.
Still, I would recommend this to anyone looking for a spicy sapphic read!