Friday, August 28, 2009

Good Luck

by Whitney Gaskell

On the worst day of her life - she is fired from her job and finds her boyfriend cheating on her in her bed - Lucy Parker buys a lottery ticket. When she wins a multi-million dollar jackpot, she soon finds out that all that money can't buy her out of her mess of a life. In fact, it creates more problems - who can she trust and who is she really? Lucy escapes to her friend's house in Palm Beach to hide out and escape the media frenzy, while she puzzles out the answers to those questions.

This book was a quick read and very engaging. The characters are real and complex. The question of "What would you do if you won the lottery?" is asked and answered in a way that made me think. Winning a bunch of money doesn't solve everything. You still have your friends, your family and your past to deal with. And who can you trust? Who still likes you for your and who wants a handout? Lucy is ill-equipped to deal with all these questions, but finds that she must find the answers quickly. And when she meets two men who know nothing of her and her past, what will happen when they find out who she really is? Or when she finds out who they really are? Overall, a fun book. I have read another book by this author before, "Mommy Tracked" and would check out some more of her books.

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