A winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start in life, but instead becomes a second chance at love in this rom com!

I started out absolutely LOVING this book! It kept me cracking up, I loved the characters. Leo, our male main character, became one of my all time favorite book boyfriends! Even though he was far from perfect, he was so devoted to her! The couple’s past, since this is a second chance romance, was so real. And although, Leo made some big mistakes in the past, he grew a lot, and I still rooted for them to work everything out and get together. I loved the relationship between Miri, our woman main character, and her mother! (I actually would love to see Miri’s mother and *you know who* get a book👀) And I was also pleasantly surprised that this book had bisexual representation! The first half of this book was so funny and cute, I loved it!!

But the second half felt like a completely different book. It wasn’t cute or funny anymore. It went from our characters having all these cute moments, to just them thinking about each other, but barely interacting. They sorted through the same thoughts over and over again. His feeling like “I hate myself for hurting her, but I have to get her back.”, and her thinking “I love him, but he hurt me and I’m scared.” And though those thoughts should definitely be had in a novel like this, I don’t think they should’ve been had repeatedly for like 40% of the book. That made the last of the book drag for me.

I’ll be giving it 3.5 stars because I loved the first half of the book so much! Also, there are characters from Jodie Slaughter’s other book, Bet On It, that make appearances in this book. I haven’t read Bet On It and still read this one with no problem, so it can be read with no prior knowledge!

Thank you St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.