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 :)