Good Luck

This is a wonderful book and really makes you think. I enjoyed it very much.

Once again, a great book from Whitney Gaskell. It made me want to jump inside the book and be a part of the story. She has a knack for making her characters so real. The saddest part is when one of her books ends and I have to wait another year for a new one.

Good Luck by Whitney Gaskell Lucy Parker is having the worst day ever. First, she is fired from her teaching job because of false accusations from a male student. Then she comes home to find her boyfriend Elliot in bed with another woman. She spends the rest of her day sulking in her PJs. The next day, Lucy checks her lottery ticket to find that she won a 64 million dollar jackpot. However, she also finds dozens of reporters and TV crews on her front lawn, wanting to interview the disgraced former teacher. Lucy makes her escape and claims her money, but now, with no job and no boyfriend, she doesn't know what to do. Good Luck is a fun chick-lit novel with lots of laughs and some serious soul searching parts as well. It is somewhat predictable, but the story is fun and the ending wraps it up well. For fans of Sophie Kinsella and Janet Evanovich.

Lucy Parker thought this day couldn't get any worse. After losing her job as a high school teacher due to allegations of an affair with student, her put upon car breaks downs, and she arrives home early to find her fiance in bed with another woman. When she wakes up the next morning, she discovers that she holds the winning lottery ticket worth $87 million. She'd prefer to keep the whole thing quiet, but a reporter out for a torrid story breaks the silence and her life his torn upside down, particularly when the ugly allegations about her job come to light and she is dubbed the "lottery seductress" by the press. People start coming out of the woodwork and she doesn't know who to trust. At the insistence of college pal Hayden, she heads to Palm Beach and changes her appearance to live down the infamy of her newfound fame. Back on the dating scene, she soon discovers that you have to be careful who you trust and that appearances and pre-conceptions can be deceiving. Gaskell's lottery drama was such a fun story. The writing is so engaging that I read it in a single day. Interweaving secondary characters like proud best friend Maisie, two potential suitors, and a horrid bridezilla sister into the story, Gaskell makes it more than a one note plot. © Tracy Vest, December 2008

I loved this book! I started it on Sunday and couldn't put it down until I finished it. I thought it was a fun, entertaining story and I wanted to keep reading about Lucy Parker. What starts out as her worst day (being fired) turns out to be her best day (winning the lottery). She heads to Palm Beach with an old friend to escape it all. The many unforseen events are both heartful and funny which makes this a fun read. I've read Whitney Gaskell's other books (also good), but this one is my favorite. I look forward to reading her future books.