Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)
Alexandria Bellefleur
Following Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur pens another steamy queer rom-com about former best friends who might be each other's second chance at love… Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now her entire crew has found "the one" and she’s beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant—her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything. It’s been ten years, but the moment they lock eyes, Margot’s cold, dead heart thumps in her chest. Olivia must be hallucinating. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn’t gone exactly as planned. At almost thirty, she’s been married... and divorced. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow her dreams. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client’s Best Woman would be the one that got away. When a series of unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room because she’s a Very Good Person. Obviously. It has nothing to do with the fact that Olivia is as beautiful as ever and the sparks between them still make Margot tingle. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. Olivia is everything she’s ever wanted, but Margot let her in once and it ended in disaster. Will history repeat itself or should she count her lucky stars that she gets a second chance with her first love?
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0I am so sad that I have finished this trilogy, I absolutely love the characters and am sad to see them go. These books were quick perfect reads with the best amount of spice. I loved that even though each book focused on a different main character and their spicey romps we still got information about the past main characters and how their lives were going and major updates. These are the happy endings I love to read about. I will for sure be picking up every other book that Alexandria Bellefleur releases. Chefs kiss!
0I don’t know why I keep reading these. I don’t really like them. What’s wrong with me? Why am I 100% going to read the author’s next book?
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Count Your Lucky Stars is the third (and presumably final?) installment in the Written in the Stars romance series, finally bringing love to the practical, occasionally grumpy, Margot. Love in the form of a second chance and former best friend, Olivia, to be precise. The tropes are good, the steamy scenes are well-written, but it's all the other stuff in between - you know, the plot and characterization - that just don't land for me. This has been true of the two previous books in this series as well, to be honest, and frankly I liked a lot of things about Margot and Olivia's story more than the two previous (and one of the things I liked least about Hang the Moon is one of the problems in Count Your Lucky Stars, too - too much Brendon, who is, I'm sorry, annoying). But there's just so much...filler. So many extraneous details, that don't communicate much to me about who these people are and what they're feeling or dealing with, that just seems like extra words. It's an extremely skimmable book for this reason, which isn't great - I want to savor spending time with characters in a romance novel, not speed through their unnecessary fidgeting and repetitive chatter.
If you liked the first two in this series, Count Your Lucky Stars will be a hit, and Margot & Olivia have more chemistry than the couples in the first two books. They also have slightly more compelling personalities in their own right, and I do appreciate the way their own respective personal issues (fear of abandonment! need to sacrifice one's own happiness to take care of others! etc) played out and clashed in the story. I just wish it was trimmed down considerably (not that much...happens...for so many words), and that the third act conflict didn't feel so forced and coincidence-heavy.
Thank you to the publisher for the advance review copy that I took nearly a year to read, I'm so sorry everyone.
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