Lucky in love

This is my least favorite Kasie West book so far. Don't get me wrong I didn't hate it but I didn't love it as much as the other two books I have read by her. This is about a teen whose family is struggling with money and then she wins the lottery and there is of course a romance. I loved how the main character was flawed and how she learns some hard lessons throughout the book and grows from them. I feel like every ones reactions to Maddie winning the lottery was over the top. I think they were all realistic but to me it was overdone. My issue and what made me not enjoy it as much is that the romance took a backseat to the whole winning the lottery of it all. I would have enjoyed it a lot more had there been a lot more of the romance because that was my favorite part. 

2.5
The romance was really cute but there were a few things that really bothered me that I felt were not really addressed by the end.

This book is definitely a 3 star read. I liked the plot pacing and everything that happened. How it involved the zoo was amazing since I also love animals. The writing is amazing as usual with Kasie West. But the characters were so annoying. Like all of them except the love interest I found annoying, mean, of rude. The main character was stupid when I know she really wasn't. Her family was a pain but very much involved. Her friends were also just horrible. I'm a very character driven person and these characters were just pure annoyance. But I did relate to the main character in the sense she worries too much about her future. Also I felt like a lot of things were too convenient in this book. Even though I did have a lot of problems it is a 2 1/2 to 3 star read. I enjoy a lot of it but didn't enjoy a lot of it.

1.5/5 stars

“Sometimes regardless of what we want, reality takes over.”

The Great Reading Slump of 2017™

devestating

#Confirmed:

Emi is the worst and she refuses to listen to any of you.

so

Shrugs

Her brother eats her cereal that for some reason she only eats on her birthday. Her parents take her to a restaurant and can't even afford the bill. And to top it all off, her BFFs for life stood her up.

•Rents a yacht she can throw a stereotypical high school party on
•Gives a million to each of her douchbag family members
•WHich he brother gambles it all off
•which wasn't a shocker at all
•Buys a $70,000 car
•$70,000!
•SHE'S 18 YEARS OLD
•I've been in a high school parking lot. No 18 year old is a good enough driver for a $70,000 car
•Buys super expensive pizza
•Gives $500,000 of it away to a family memeber SHE HAS NEVER MET BEFORE to invest into real estate
•Which is a scam
•Again, shocker
•Spends a lot of it at Ikea
•WHich I actually understand. Ikea is cool
•Other stupid stuff, i started blocking it all out at this point

GET A FUCKIGN FINANCIAL ADVISOR

AND WHEN THAT FINANCIAL ADVISOR AT THE END OF THE BOOK IS LIKE, "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THIS MONEY WHEN YOU DIE"

mADDY STARTS TALKING ABOUT THIS ANTEATER

AND HOW SHE WANTS TO GIVE MOENY TO THE ANTEATER

I just can't

I can't

EXCEPT HE KNEW. LIKE WHAT A JERK. All he had to do was be like, "hey congrats on winning all that moolah now let's go clean up poop together."

Buddy read w/ Scrill whom I abondened and finished this book days before her. Sorry.

I really wanted to like this. I love the trope–lottery winner–but halfway through I couldn't take any more. We begin with a girl so desperate to get a scholarship that all she does is study, thus setting up her social outcast status. She spouts random trivia and is clearly a bright young woman, but she wins the lottery and becomes TSTL. I get that lottery winners make bad choices, but I just can't reconcile Maddie's actions after winning with the girl I met at the beginning of the story. Maybe that was Ms. West's point, but I just didn't buy it–so much that I couldn't get past it. So this is DNF for me.

That said, loved the audiobook narrator. It's just the story that didn't work for me.