Jenn Bennett is one of my favorite young adult authors and Chasing Lucky might be my favorite book yet by her. This book takes place in Beauty, Rhode Island which is basically Newport. Jenn's description of the setting was on point and made me feel like I was just starting a summer in Newport. Josie has just returned to the hometown she left with her mother when she was 12. She has spent the last 5 years jumping from town to town never staying in one place long. When she walks into the bookshop her and her mom will be running for the year while her Grandmother is in Nepal she comes face to face with the best friend she had left behind, Lucky.
I loved the development of both of the main characters and loved the banter between them. They had great chemistry. This book is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen who are yearning for a cute young adult romance in a small beach town complete with an adorable bookshop. I absolutely loved Lucky. Josie could annoy me at times and I didn't love that she let Lucky take the fall for her in the beginning of the book but she grew on me throughout it. Chasing Lucky was more than a young adult romance. It was about family and finding yourself and what you want while learning to be honest with one another. I devoured this book in 2 days and will definitely reread it in the future. Highly recommend!

Thanks to NetGalley for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not sure why this was abruptly archived. I had to double check the dates. I did get a chance to download it and still plan to review it on other platforms around the release date. If it comes back to Netgalley, I will resubmit my updated review.

I love Jenn Bennett's books (Alex Approximately is one of my all time favorites). This book has what you expect from a Bennett novel - characters on the brink of growing up, life lessons and love. It was well written and you can't help but love her character. I didn't connect to the past of the main character as much as some of her other work, but I think that was just me. I would still recommend any of her books, including this one to any YA contemporary romance reader.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for a chance to review this book.

I haven't read opposite attracts romance in quiet a while and this book looked pretty good. From the amazing cover and the interesting blurb , I was excited to read this book. I am quiet happy to say I loved Josie and Lucky. They had a good chemistry and understood each other even they are totally different from one another. It was really good book with good plot line, funny dialogues, engaging characters and lots of romance and a second chance at love. I loved it.
Happy reading.

Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett is a wonderful, emotional, fun, and delightful young adult contemporary romance. Josie and Lucky rekindle their friendship, when Josie and her mom move back to town. They have always been best friends, until Josie and her mom left town in the middle of the night four years earlier. Can their relationship be repaired? I love this genre, even though I am far from a young adult. There is something so innocent about first loves. I love the complicated people and situations in this book, and watching the characters grow, both the teens and adults. I found this book to be a quick read, and highly recommend this book.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Was unable to download this title before archived and will not be writing a review on it,. Super disappointed since I really wanted to read it.

I was gifted an arc of this book by NetGalley and Simon Schuster/Simon Pulse for giving me this book.

So this book is about Josie who comes back to her hometown with her mom after being gone for a long time. Her mom knows that coming to town is not the best idea but its their only idea. Her plan save up and leave for Florida. That changes when she sees an old face that she hasn't seen since she was 12.

Lucky Karras her childhood best friend and the guy who now has scars and a bad reputation. They end up at a party one night and things don't go as planned putting them in a situation and he takes complete fall for what happened.

Can she fix all the problems that has gone wrong? What will she do with her feelings that she finds she has for her now hunky best friend.

So I fell in love with this book. It was everything I wanted and after reading the book I love the cover even more. It has that sweet friendship that turns into romance. That I love. It had family drama from past and present. I did get irritated at the mom and the cousin but it was just because I thought that they were blaming a silly "curse" for all their problems. Overall it will be instantly bought when I can get my hands on a copy.

I have loved reading Jenn Bennett's book for a while now and was surprised when I started Chasing Lucky to find it took place in Rhode Island and the main character worked in a bookstore. Are you stalking my life? Once I was able to get past the fact that fictional Beauty, RI is pretty much Newport and delve into the story, I couldn't put it down. Josie and Lucky's story had me hooked with the will they won't they back and forth. The complexity of Josie's relationship with her mother was heart wrenching and you couldn't help but root for everything to work out in the end.

I received an advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review

A sweet love story, nothing too heavy, about a misunderstood bad boy and his best friend who just happens to the daughter of the town wild child. This one tics a lot of dysfunctional boxes and just smacks a teensy bit of Gilmore Girls but the sweetness keeps it fresh. 3.5 rounded up

This was a cute book and a quick read. It was interesting to see the small-town dynamics play out. I did keep waiting for something big to happen, but for me the story seemed to carry on at an even pace. Still a nice book for a rainy afternoon.

Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a carefree contemporary read that’s also a little deeper. Jenn Bennett is one of my all time favorite authors and this book did not disappoint. Love everything about it from the characters to her writing style to the story itself. Definitely check this one out.

Such a cute novel. I quickly fell in love with Josie and her story. It was adorable and predictable but it was the perfect book for me to quickly read.

Saint Martin girls have been cursed for the love. They can never get the love of their life. And Beauty is a town where feminism and modern age is still just a word. Josie Saint Martin was twelve when she left the Beauty with her mom in the middle of the night after a big fight between her grandmother and her mother.. Since then they have changed many homes and many towns. But after five years Josie and her mom are back on Beauty and to the curse too. But Josie has a way out. She has a plan to exit all of this drama.

But what happens when an ex-friend now turned bad boy takes the blame of an accident which actually happened because of Josie. Will their friendship rekindle? Will the cliche come true a bad boy and a good girl love story? Or the escape plan is too important for Josie?

Review-

Frankly speaking I didn't had high hopes from this book. I thought it will be one of those high school drama, prank, bad boy loves good girl kind of story. But Boy Oh Boy!!!! I was so wrong. This book is nothing like it at all.

The emotions are so raw in this book. Mother daughter relationship, being an adult when you are still too young, being guilty of something which could have happened and a longing for a family, these are the situations which these book tackles beautifully. You connect with each and every emotion of Josie.

Plot and characters of the book are very realistic. These are the people whom you actually encounter in your daily life. This makes the book more connected and interesting.

I love the writing of the book. It just flows naturally. At no place it seems too much or too less. Author has maintained a perfect pace of the book. Even the ending was very heart touching and not cliche at all.

This book shows a beautiful bond of a mother and daughter. And sometimes you really have to put the wall down and be honest with your loved ones because even the most terrible situations can be solved by just communicating.

I recommend it to everyone who wants to read a good emotional book with a background of a gorgeous city of Beauty.

Disappeared before I could review it. I don't request books unless I have the time to review them, so it's disappointing that they changed the archive date by three months with no warning. I just checked today at lunch to make sure the archive date was in May, and blocked off time in my calendar to review before March.

I downloaded this yesterday and before I could read it, it was archived. So, I have no opinion, but I am very excited to eventually read this book.

I.LOVE,IT.SO.MUCH.
I cannot help myself. I keep dancing, my heart is singing, I’m head over heels for these sweetest characters, hooking story-telling, love at first side charm of Beauty. This book makes you feel like you just recently chased your lucky stars and makes your heart pound faster.

Winona and Josie have no idea when they take their first steps to their hometown they’d left five years ago, they just entered to the highway to hell. Even I could hear AC/DC’s blaring lyrics as a threat. They came to take over Josie’s grandmother’s bookstore. The very same grandmother, her mother had a terrible fight and made them leave the town in the middle of the night. Josie still regrets to leave the place without saying goodbye her boy, her only real friend Lucky Karras who just survived from the terrifying fire accident.

And guess what, as soon as they enter the bookstore, Josie bumps into him. But his friend has completely changed, giving her deadly glares, not talking to him, turned into a bad boy, trouble maker, loner, outsider.
Josie resents her hostility and the worst part is the entire town people, her new school friends keep whispering behind her. She wants a new life, clean slate and getting away from her impulsive, unpredictable, eccentric mother who prefers to hide behind her emotional walls. ( Her flirty, dysfunctional relationships with men reminded me of Gillian Anderson’s character at “Sex Education” but if this book adapted into a movie my candidate to play her is absolutely Winona Ryder!)

She wants to concentrate her photographing, patching things up with her father who is also famous photographer, moving to LA for becoming his apprentice. So she has a plan, only a year to endure in this gossipy hell and then one way ticket to the West Coast! But…. When she decides to join a house party with her cousin and bumps into Lucky one more time… Let’s say the night turns into a nightmare and Josie finds herself reconnected with Lucky AGAIN! And she owes him so big, this time!

As soon as Josie rediscovers her best friend, she finds herself to question her own life, realities and her dreams. She finally realizes that she missed her friend and Lucky is someone more than a friend for her. But does chasing Lucky mean she lose her luck for her future dreams and make things worse for two of them? As like William Faulkner said: “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore!”

OVERALL: Story-telling-mesmerizing, captivating, 5 million “awwwww” and 4 billion sighs worthy!

Characters: Sweet, lovely, heart melting.

Pacing: Unputdownable, you never want it end sooner.

Ending: Satisfying, puts an ear to ear smile on your face and warms your heart.

RESULT: Of course five swoony, soft, sweet, romantic, emotional stars.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Simon&Schuster/ Simon Pulse to share this amazing book on the NetGalley website so entire book lovers can enjoy this ARC COPY!

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this in advance.

Romance, a bookshop, small harbour town! What more can you hope??

Josie Saint-Martin is a budding photographer who has moved from town to town for the past five years with her mother. Now they are back at their hometown Beauty to run their family bookshop, but Josie's plan is to get out of there and move to the opposite coast. She runs into Lucky Karras, town's bad boy and her former best friend. But when trouble comes along and Lucky covers for Josie, she is confused as to why. They start to get to know each other again and find out that some things have changed, but maybe change isn't always the worst thing.

Chasing Lucky is a wonderful book about love, family and truth. I love how the communication has a big part in this book and it shows the importance of it to us all. It is unusual for me to like both main characters this much but I really did. I find Lucky and Josie amazing, sarcastic, funny and lovable. I found depth in them and their story took me away right from the start.

Best parts include humor, deep conversations, true friendship and family. I find that this book offers a lot of points, communicate with the people you care about and listen to them. I truly recommend this to all who love romance but want little bit more than that from a book. Chasing Lucky offers a story with many levels, and I loved it.

4.5 stars

If you're looking for amazing young adult romance 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 is book for you!
I love Lucky and Josie, one of my favorite young adult couples and you can't never go wrong with childhood best friends and one moved away, and now when they back, they are turned into enemies to friends to lovers with a lot of angst.
Their banter is so much fun and heartfelt plus they have so much passion for their art I just devoured it.
Jenn writing is so addicting and well crafted I seriously could read about these two forever.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘵𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸!

Rating: 4/5

Thanks NetGalley for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

Having read all of the author's previous YA contemporary books and loving two of them - the other two not so much - my expectations for this one were high and I'm so glad to say that I was not disappointed. This was exactly the kind of book I was expecting from the author.

This one is about Josie, who is returning to her hometown with her mother, after jumping from city to city for years. Only that when she left town all those years ago, she also left a best friend: Lucky, who was going through some tough time and now that she's back, he's changed quite a bit. Plus, we also have all the problematic issues regarding her mother and all other family members.

First of all, let me just say that I read this one in basically 24 hours! It's not so unusual for me, but still, not all the books I read are this compelling. The author's writing is extremely gripping and every time I finished a chapter, I just couldn't help but jumping to the next one.

I love how the relationship evolved between Josie and Lucky. I love the trope best friends to enemies to lovers and that's exactly what we have here, and let me tell you: it's so well done. I love their dialogue, their chemistry and how they understood each other.

The personal development of Josie is also very well done. All of her goals - she wants to be a professional photographer -, her relationship with her mother and absent father and also the other women in her family. There's drama, humor and I just loved all of them. Of course it wasn't perfect, since the characters had certain attitudes which annoyed me very much, but it didn't spoil the book at all.

I highly recommend if you like this trope and heart-warming YA contemporary books :)