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Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

23 reviews

leannanecdote's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness and Death of parent

abby_can_read's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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This was cute. I had a good time listening to the audiobook. I liked the main couple, Margot and Olivia. I loved Olivia's cat Cat. Cat and her antics were one of my favorite parts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

lilacspacebunny's review

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Super cute sapphic romance about two girls who have a complicated past and unresolved feelings. Written sort’ve like a fanfic, but in a way that I really enjoyed. LOTs of tasteful smut. Highly recommend for a mostly light-hearted (a few moments of high tension) slice of life focused on character and interpersonal development 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Emotional abuse

Olivia has a previously relationship that was thoroughly toxic, involving

her ex-husband

Can be a bit tough to get through, but isn’t super prevalent.

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I think I may have read too many of her books too close together, as I didn't enjoy this one as much as the others. I think it was too focused on just the two MCs, and didn't have enough of other characters and things going on outside of the relationship to me. I also just got bored about 50% through. I did like the last 20% just that 30% was boring and I had trouble paying attention to it. It was spicy enough for once! LOL. I also wish she didn't always use the same narrator for all her books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

fanboyriot's review

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Really liked this book.  The humor was good, the characters were detailed and pleasant to read, it had second-chance vibes without a heavy angst backstory, and the ending was really cute.  Just an overall nice read.

Sapphic
Light Angst
Good Humor
Second Chances
Friends to Lovers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

readingwithkaitlyn's review

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Divorce, heart attack.

kylieqrada's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5 ⭐️s. This series is great, but I think this one is my least fave of the 3. Still love the characters, and Olivia is a great addition to the friend group. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

beccaand's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent

taelights's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I was honestly such a huge fan of Written in the Stars so I was super excited to see the 3rd book in this series was another sapphic romance. 

This had so many tropes I love: childhood best friends to lovers, reunions, roommates, second chance romances. So I knew I'd probably love it and I did. 

The writing style was great, the sex scenes were very hot, and the chemistry between the characters were great! 

I will definitely be keeping an eye out for more sapphic Alexandria Bellefleur books in the future. 

 
My only warning would be for frequent mentions of past toxic hetero relationship with mentions of cheating, some emotional abuse, and other forms of toxicity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity and Medical content

Minor: Death and Death of parent

capriqueen's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I liked the character development and how their internal arcs were set up from the start, and how their issues played out in inhibiting their relationship

Felt like it dragged in places, especially at the end. Became unsympathetic to Olivia at the end. Also way too much mouth choreography. Characters are constantly nibbling their lip or biting their cheek or tongue or rolling lips together or scraping teeth against their bottom lip

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse and Infidelity