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Only If You're Lucky

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Only If You're Lucky

Written by: Stacy Willingham
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
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"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job.... Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator."—Booklist on All the Dangerous Things

A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.

And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.

From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal—another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

©2024 Stacy Willingham (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
Crime Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller Fiction South Carolina
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What the critics say

“Willingham offers taut storytelling and a heroine with compelling vulnerability.” (Booklist)

"Willingham is a writer to watch.” (Publishers Weekly)

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No real surprise

Just ok, no twist really. Normally 5 Star this author. Prefer her other books, but still worth a read.

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Every thought is heavily detailed

I found this book a slog to get through. I kept waiting for it to pick up and get on with the story but it didn't. Every thought of the main character was heavily detailed to the point it felt like an exercise in a university course. The storyline never got the chance to pick up and run as I just kept listening to thoughts being overly detailed.

Narration: This is a personal one. I did not like the narrator. Too nasally and I felt like I was listening to someone narrate and not being able to get lost in the story. Again that is just personal preference.

Had I read the reviews I probably would not have chosen this book but I was in a rush and the premise looked interesting.

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