A review by anxiousnachos
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott

lighthearted

3.0

This was a sweet and cute YA contemporary and I really appreciated the story of a girl struggling to come out of the closet in a small, country town (that’s my life!) but I also feel this book exemplified everything about why I feel I’ve been growing out of YA contemporary. All of the themes and emotional depth felt very surface level, nothing was explored in any real depth. And there were moments I felt like a real psychopath for not feeling distraught over the mother plot - not sure if this is the book’s fault or mine! I wanted deeper emotion from this, everything felt very surface level and lacked depth to me - I’ve spent the day trying to work out if it’s a problem of the book itself (and it genuinely is just lacking depth a bit?) or if it’s related to my feelings of growing out of YA contemporary. I still do not have an answer because I’m still not ready for this genre to me over so I’m still don’t want to say it’s the latter.

Content warnings: death of parent (past), grief, cheating
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