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A review by thebookberrie
The Good Luck Charm by Helena Hunting
1.0
I don't know if I have the words to express how much I HATED this book but I will try.
The Good Luck Charm is about a woman named Lilah who is shocked to learn that Ethan, her first love and the man that left her to focus on his hockey career is back in town. Ethan thinks they can pick up where they left off but Lilah isn't the same person she was back then.
I really complain about how much I hate male POVs in romance novels every time but for real, I fucking hate them. This dude is SO NASTY and never has a thought about Lilah that isn't "I want to be inside her hot body soooo bad right now ughgfuhhg". If that wasn't enough to make me want to barf, I was listening to this book on audio and the smut was ridiculously graphic and just.kept.going.on. It seriously went from one sex scene to another in the next chapter and I just?? You serious?? Maybe it wouldn't have grossed me out as much if I had read it myself but on audiobook it felt like it lasted for 20 mins each time and I wanted to scream. I don't want to sound like some pearl-clutching old nun but it was all seriously unnecessary and downright cursed.
If smut keeps happening so much compared to actual emotional development (and literally anything else) I just get hella bored. Also like... ma'am this is the McDonald's drive thru can you stop having sex in public? There was a scene where they were doing it in a car in the woods and some cop came up and Ethan got all pissy??? Why did you both not get arrested I literally hate you.
I'm never going to care about endless smut and I'm sure not going to care if I don't even like the relationship and saying I don't like this relationship would be to put it mildly. I don't really like second chance romances and this one was awful. Ethan was an asshole and I can't think of anything about him besides how fucking horny and entitled he was. I swear to god even at 95% he was STILL going off about how much he wanted to screw Leliah. And then of course smut was still happening because what even happened in this book besides smut? Annoying romance, talk of sports, blah blah; there was nothing to this damn book.
Just no, absolute no. There was nothing in here I was even close to liking and I don't see myself reading from this author again. Which is honestly hilarious because the last book I've tried to read by her, [b:Meet Cute|41063454|Meet Cute|Helena Hunting|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1536852275l/41063454._SY75_.jpg|64134997], I dropped so fast that I never even added it to GR. Should have dropped this one too.
The Good Luck Charm is about a woman named Lilah who is shocked to learn that Ethan, her first love and the man that left her to focus on his hockey career is back in town. Ethan thinks they can pick up where they left off but Lilah isn't the same person she was back then.
I really complain about how much I hate male POVs in romance novels every time but for real, I fucking hate them. This dude is SO NASTY and never has a thought about Lilah that isn't "I want to be inside her hot body soooo bad right now ughgfuhhg". If that wasn't enough to make me want to barf, I was listening to this book on audio and the smut was ridiculously graphic and just.kept.going.on. It seriously went from one sex scene to another in the next chapter and I just?? You serious?? Maybe it wouldn't have grossed me out as much if I had read it myself but on audiobook it felt like it lasted for 20 mins each time and I wanted to scream. I don't want to sound like some pearl-clutching old nun but it was all seriously unnecessary and downright cursed.
If smut keeps happening so much compared to actual emotional development (and literally anything else) I just get hella bored. Also like... ma'am this is the McDonald's drive thru can you stop having sex in public? There was a scene where they were doing it in a car in the woods and some cop came up and Ethan got all pissy??? Why did you both not get arrested I literally hate you.
I'm never going to care about endless smut and I'm sure not going to care if I don't even like the relationship and saying I don't like this relationship would be to put it mildly. I don't really like second chance romances and this one was awful. Ethan was an asshole and I can't think of anything about him besides how fucking horny and entitled he was. I swear to god even at 95% he was STILL going off about how much he wanted to screw Leliah. And then of course smut was still happening because what even happened in this book besides smut? Annoying romance, talk of sports, blah blah; there was nothing to this damn book.
Just no, absolute no. There was nothing in here I was even close to liking and I don't see myself reading from this author again. Which is honestly hilarious because the last book I've tried to read by her, [b:Meet Cute|41063454|Meet Cute|Helena Hunting|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1536852275l/41063454._SY75_.jpg|64134997], I dropped so fast that I never even added it to GR. Should have dropped this one too.