Name: Just My Luck
ISBN: 9780008284701

Adele Parks

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER! What if winning means losing everything? ‘A gripping story of greed, lies and dark family secrets’ Lisa Jewell ‘Utterly engrossing and brilliant’ Lucy Foley ‘Addictive, provocative... brilliantly crafted’ TM Logan

Just My Luck

It was supposed to be the lottery win they'd always dreamed of... For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends. Over drinks, dinner parties and summer barbecues, the three couples have discussed the important stuff--kids, marriages, careers--and they've laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything. But then the unthinkable happens. There's a rift in the group. Someone is caught in a lie. And soon after, six numbers come up that change everything forever. Lexi and Jake have a ticket worth millions. And their friends are determined to claim a share. #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks returns with a riveting look at the dark side of wealth in this gripping tale of friendship, money, betrayal and good luck gone bad...

Caitlin Dignan

Overall I enjoyed it. I liked all the mix of relationships and the themes of greed. It had a bit of a random ending and I'm not sure I'd read it again but it's an easy read

Megan Leprich

Unfortunately I think this will be the last Adele Parks book I read. I used to enjoy her writing and now I find myself slogging through her books just to get to the end.

Lexi and Jake have been playing the lottery with a group of friends for fifteen years, failing to win anything of substantial value. Then shockingly Lexie and Jake win the lottery, worth 18 million pounds. While they’re planning on how to spend their windfall of money, their friends are demanding that part of the money rightly belongs to them. The group of friends is not going to go lightly and things take a dark, twisty turn.

I was very intrigued by the premise of this story but it was slow for a majority of the book. It had some crazy plot twists but not enough of a build up to those twists for me to really be surprised by them. 

As far as the characters, the husband Jake annoyed me the most out of everyone. I understand being excited because you won the lottery and now have all of that money at your disposal but I feel like the author portrayed him as the stereotypical mid-life crisis guy that’s going out and buying the crazy cars and blowing money everywhere. 


*Many thanks to Mira Books for the complimentary copy for my review*

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