Only if You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Thriller, Suspense, Fiction
Minotaur Books | January 16th, 2024
4/5 Stars
Margot recently lost her best friend and now she’s going to the college they were supposed to go to together. She spends most of her first year coped up in her room instead of partying or doing any of the typical college things.
At the end of the year, ‘it’ girl Lucy invites Margot to move in with her and two others into an off campus apartment owned by the fraternity next door. Not wanting to go home for the summer, Margot accepts and moves in with them. She soon finds out that someone from her past is joining the fraternity and she is not happy.
As the summer goes on and the new semester starts things begin to change for Margot. She starts coming out of her shell more and gets really close with the girls, especially Lucy. Weird stuff starts happening and Margot starts questioning everything.
This book threw me to say the least. There were multiple times where I thought I knew what was going on but then BAM plot twist. This story was so well written. The characters were amazing – each playing the part needed to in order to make you think you knew the answers when you really had no idea until the very end. I could not put this book down. The story is written in a before and after format which I tend to enjoy because I’m always trying to figure out when the timelines will meet and if I have all the information yet.
This book is definitely worth the read if you’re into who-done-it, unpredictable plot, dual timeline type stories. I read another book by this author last year and really enjoyed it so I had high hopes for this one and was not disappointed.
Thank you, NetGalley and Minotaur Books for this arc in return for an honest review.
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