This book was just what I needed. After a stressful week at work, I wanted to sit down and read while listening to the storm outside. I was able to read this book in one sitting. Let me tell you...I devoured it. Such a heartwarming story about healing after losing a loved one. I was expecting story where I am sobbing uncontrollably at the end. However, this is a story where I am smiling and laughing and simply enjoying a great story. There is little effort that is needed from the reader, which is not a bad thing. I am now going to search out books similar to this type of reading experience because I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

⭐⭐⭐7 rounded up
I read [book: Five Feet Apart] and totally enjoyed it. It was written by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis.
Goodreads has a nice note from author Rachael Lippincott.
She states ~ that this is her “solo debut”
and she cannot wait for us to meet
Emily and Blake in the town of Huckabee.
Emily is going in her senior and is missing her mom who died three years ago.
Blake is new to town and becomes friend. Emily’s dad is going to sell the house when Emily finds her mother’s bucket list that she created the summer before her senior year.
Blake suggests that Emily complete that list and he will help her!
1. Get a tattoo.
2. Get over my fear of heights.
3. Go on a Picnic.
4. Try New food.
5. Get out of Huckabee.
6. Sleep under the stars.
7. Go on the Huckabee Lake Trip.
8. Skinny-dip in Huckabee Pool after hours.
9. Buy a book in another language.
10. Steal an apple from the First Tree at Snyder’s Orchard
11. Find a four-leaf clover.
12. Kiss JC.

Emily and Blake have a summer’s adventure with this list. Will Emily complete it?

Emily comes up with her own list:
1. Tell Blake How I feel.
2. Go to a St. Vincent concert.
3. Take a trip to NYC
4. Go on a college road trip.
5. Make kulolo.
6. Go to prom.
7. East meat loaf at Hank’s.
8. Make a plan for life after high school.
9. Go to all of Blake’s soccer games.
10. Spend a week at Aunt Lisa’s beach house.
11. Plan a Senior Skip Day adventure.
12. (You knew this was going to be on the list!) Kiss BC.


I enjoyed this story and yep! I also feel ‘Lucky’.

Additionally I always enjoy reading the “Acknowledgements. Thank you Rachael Lippincott!

Want to thank NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing for this eGalley. This file has been made available to me before publication in an early form for professional review purposes only.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for June 1, 2021

Lovely even if it is a little predictable story about dealing with grief! Loved the writing and characters a lot.

This book was received as an ARC from Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I could not help but smile throughout this book. I loved the sentiment behind the book and the message it sends with Emily and the loss of her mom to cancer. In these difficult times, we need a book that teaches us to overcome adversity and still honor their loved ones. In Emily's case, she met Blake, found her mother's bucket list and decided together that they are going to complete every task in her honor. Throughout the entire book, I could not stop smiling and have my heart be warmed. This book will be perfect for a summer reading list and a future battle book and the strong message the book sends is inspiring to many readers.

We will consider adding this title to our YA collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

While her best friend is off at camp, and her ex-boyfriend and the rest of her friends have shunned her after a junior prom incident, Emily Clark must figure out how she’s going to spend her summer besides working in the bakery and avoiding Matt. But when her dads best friend moves back to town with his daughter, her summer plans change. As Emily navigates a new friendship with Blake and moving from her childhood home, the girls uncover a hidden bucket list of Emily’s moms. Her senior summer, she had a list to accomplish. While her and Blake tackle the list, Emily finds herself again. A bit predictable, but fun and easy. Get ready for an invincible summer!

The Lucky List offers a heartfelt, insightful look at grief and the stages that young adults may go through. Emily's story demonstrates how one can honor losing a loved one while working through the grieving process. It is also a story of coming into one’s self. By completing the list Emily finds, she discovers who she is and where she belongs in this world. Emily's friendship with Blake is a path to learning how to navigate difficult emotions and new relationships. I absolutely recommend this book to anyone struggling with similar life experiences. It is a pleasure to read through laughter and tears.

While I thoroughly enjoyed Five Feet Apart, I think The Lucky List is more relatable to the majority of teens. Thank you to Rachel Lippincott for writing such a beautiful book!

This is a story about Emily who's mom passed away three years ago. It's her last summer before senior year and with her best friend away for the summer and a breakup with her boyfriend, she is feeling out of place. She then meets Blake and they spend the summer trying to complete her moms old summer bucket list from when she was in college. This is Rachael's first solo book and while I loved her previous collaborative books i loved this one just as much (maybe more!!). A great coming of age novel that I know so many people will love!

After trying to read Rachael Lippincott's other books and finding them boring, this one really stuck with me.

I think to start, this felt fresh. Several of the author's other books felt like grabs at John Green titles, but this one really felt new.

I fell in love with Emily and her relationships in this. The characters all felt so connected and their relationships felt so, so real. The emotional journey of Emily in this is also where this book stands out.

Overall, very much enjoyed this.

I was unable to get my copy to pull up.i tried several times. The description of the books sound really good and I will pick up a copy when it comes out.

4 out of 5 stars. Thank you to NetGalley for a digital arc, in exchange for my honest review.

During the summer before her senior year of high school, Emily is not on speaking terms with Matt, her long-term boyfriend (or the rest of their friend group). After she inexplicably broke his heart at the Junior Prom, she can't explain why she did what she did - which makes it difficult for her to ask for his forgiveness, and return to the way things were. With her best friend out-of-reach for most of the summer, and her dad selling their house to pay off her late-mom's medical bills, she has no one to lean on - until Blake, the daughter of an old family friend, moves to town. With Blake by her side, Emily has someone to confide in, and finds she is able to grow more into herself. She thinks she can finally return to the adventurous person she was before her mother's death, and resolve her issues with Matt. But first, she will need to discover if that is what will truly make her happy with herself.

CW - grief, loss of mother to cancer. Positive representation of the need for self-acceptance. I would especially recommend this book to those who are questioning their sexual identity.

Trigger warning: grief, loss of parent

It is the summer, and Emily is recovering from her junior year. She lost her boyfriend and some of her friends. Her best friend Kiera is away at camp, and Emily is looking for friendship. Her dad's best friend moves back to town, and his daughter, Blake, is with him. Blake and Emily hit it off quickly.

Emily is moving houses with her dad because the medical debt from the cancer treatments have made it impossible to keep their house. She and Blake are organizing her late mother's closet, and they find a bucket list from her mom's high school days--particularly the summer after her junior year. Emily takes the list and decides to mark off the items her own way. Blake and Emily embark on a journey to make that happen.

Emily learns a lot about herself, friendship, and love. She is forced to look inside herself and think about her mother after 3 years of burying her grief and responses to her mother.

The story is a fast read and a nice coming of age story, but there wasn't that made it stand out from other YA romance stories. I was disappointed by the lack of representation in this book. There is LGBTQIA+ representation, but the characters are majority white, suburban, middle class kids. The story line felt pretty predictable, but overall it was a decent read. I would give this one 3.5 stars.

A lovely but predictable story of a 17-year-old in a small town whose mother died three years earlier. The question is, will she be true to her mother’s last wishes for her, or true to herself?

The author skillfully describes the emotions of a young woman at a doubly-complicated turning point in her life. If a few genuine surprises had been included in the story, it could’ve earned five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The Lucky List is a beautiful debut solo novel by Rachael Lippincott. You will smile and laugh, and you will bawl like a baby. Lippincott paints a picture with her words making it easy to get lost in the story. It's easy to fall in love with the characters and find yourself rooting for them all. The story is raw, honest, and relatable, following the main character, Emily, through her summer of self discovery before her senior year in high school.

Thank you to #NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review of #TheLuckyList by #RachaelLippincott I thoroughly enjoyed it!

This book surprised me in many ways and had things I didn’t expect, but came to love. I found myself reading it slowly, and crying at many parts when it would discuss her relationship with her mom and her feelings of loss. My mom is my best friend and I’m fairly certain that I would have responded the same way as Emily in this situation.

I loved Blake’s character and their friendship. While I felt it was a little obvious how things would end up - I also thought Em was going to stick with what she thought her mom wanted for her.

This was a great story of friendship, love, loss and discovering who you are and who you’re meant to be. I really enjoyed it!

I really enjoyed this new book from Lippincott. I enjoyed her others, and this one hits just right. A little sad, a little hopeful, and a perfect summer read.

**3.5 Stars

The main character, Emily, is dealing with the death of her mother to cancer. Because of the financial strain it puts on her father, they are forced to move out of Emily’s childhood home, a home ingrained with memories of her mother. The reader is introduced to Emily’s dilemma; her on and off again romance with her boyfriend Matt. When Emily kisses another guy at the junior prom, her friend group is torn, and she is seen by some of her “friends” as a social pariah. It isn’t until Blake, her dad’s best friend’s daughter, moves to town from Hawaii that things change. Emily finds much-needed friendship and more with Blake, but she has to put aside what’s expected of her and do what makes her happy.

When she finds her mom’s bucket list from high school, she decides to pursue her mother’s high school footsteps. This includes finding a four-leaf clover, getting a tattoo, eating a new food, etc. The quest leads Emily closer to Blake and closer to the truth about herself. Perfect for fans of From You to Me by K.A. Holt. The Lucky List is a fast, interesting read that will keep young readers engaged.

This book felt repetitive to her previous ones with the "must complete X number of items before death" piece, except this time it was about the mom rather than the main character. I unfortunately got bored seeing the same themes and DNF at 40%. This may also have to do with the fact that I didnt find the main character compelling on her own.

I would give this perfect summer read 3.5 stars. Cute YA story about a soon to be high school senior's summer. She is dealing with her mom's death and drama with her family. The story goes into her figuring out her life and relationships. You could definitely guess the ending early on, but it was still a decent feel good read.

The main character struggles with who she is after the death of her mother. . The characters were interesting and the story was well paced--a quick, enjoyable read.

I liked the book. I just didn’t love it as much as Five Feet Apart which was 4 stars to me.

The Lucky List was a good YA. It was fast paced, well written book. I enjoyed the plot, I think Emily was just a bit to dramatic for me. I know she was trying to discover who she is and who she likes, she misses her mom and she doesn’t have the best relationship with her dad. I understand she is going through a lot, but at times she was very whiny. I liked Blake, I felt she was more well rounded character. She knew who she was and what she wanted. She was such a great constant in Emily’s life.
The ending was great. I’m glad things worked out between the characters and the HEA was well deserved.
The cover is beautiful. It fits the book perfectly.