Only If You’re Lucky

I received this book for free from the publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Narrator: Karissa Vacker
Published by Macmillan Audio, Minotaur Books on January 16, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Pages: 384
Format: ARC, Audiobook
Source: Publisher
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A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.

And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.

From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal—another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.

I enjoyed this book! I was able to guess quite a few of the twists but that didn’t hinder my enjoyment. I couldn’t wait to see if my predictions were accurate or if the story would take another unexpected twist. Thankfully, I was surprised a few times throughout the story. I found this page-turner to be very entertaining.

Margot moves in with a new friend, Lucy, and her two roommates during her second year of college. She is unhappy when someone from her past moves into the fraternity house next door. Margot never liked Levi and blames him for the death of her high school best friend, Eliza. I was never quite sure which of the characters in this story and I was very eager to learn just how the events from the past were connected to what was happening in with Lucy now.

I listened to the audio and thought Karissa Vacker did an amazing job with this story. I am becoming a huge fan of this narrator’s work and this book was no exception. She did a great job with the various character voices which helped to bring the story to life. I thought that she added just the right amount of emotion to her reading which heightened the listening experience. I am certain that her performance added to my overall enjoyment of this exciting story.

I would recommend this book to others. I had a great time trying to figure out all the twists and turns in this captivating story. This is the second time that I have picked up this author’s work and look forward to reading more very soon.

I received a review copy of this book from Minotaur Books and Macmillan Audio.

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