Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
**3.5-stars**
When Addie embarks on a family trip to Ireland for her Aunt’s destination wedding, she couldn’t be happier to get out of town. It has been the
worst summer of her life
for dramatic reasons unknown to the reader for pretty much the entire book.
The plan is that after the wedding, Addie and her brother Ian, will travel on to Italy to visit Addie’s best friend, Lena. That’s right, Lena from Love & Gelato, the book that completely stole my heart last month.
However, things do not go exactly as planned when Addie catches Ian running away from their hotel room on the morning they are suppose to depart. Ian has other plans and none of them include Lena or Italy.
What happens next is a wild road trip through Ireland with their new friend, Rowan, in one of the biggest POS cars in the country.
While this book did have moments of cute and quirky, it also had moments that were highly annoying and bland. Ian and Addie are in a petty sibling battle pretty much for the entirety of the book that, frankly, was wearing on my last nerve.
I get it, siblings fight sometimes but good grief. I also wasn’t crazy about the format. Not knowing what Addie’s drama was all about until the very end. I would have rather known up front so that I could have at least had some sympathy for the girl. Instead I just felt like…
It had a lovely ending which bumped it up a half a star but otherwise, I was underwhelmed. I didn’t feel as connected to Addie as I did with Lena and the overall plot of Love & Gelato was much more to my personal preference than this book. Overall, I am glad I read this and I would read more books by this author but I am glad to be done with this one.
Original:Book 3 for Contemporary-A-Thon Round 4!!! I am using this to meet two of the challenges:
6. Read a book in a nontraditional format (audiobook)
7. Read a book with a picture on the spine
I really enjoyed Love & Gelato last month! Looking forward to this as well as it is set in Ireland which is basically my favorite place in the world.
