Jessica Devlin is devastated when her fiancée calls off the engagement. Well, after she finds him in bed with another woman. To mend her broken heart, she whisks away from her hometown of Orlando to England, where she is the maid of honor at her cousin’s wedding. Jessica also needs a much needed break from working non-stop at O Tart magazine, where she works as a beauty editor but is trying to move up on the totem pole. A two week vacation to a foreign land sounds like just what she needs for her broken heart and over worked mind.
But once she lands in England and meets up with the family, she runs into the dashing Nick Mondinello. Jessica has a past with Nick from the last time she visited England, and finds the attraction to him is still there. But Nick happens to be a playboy extraordinaire, and also seems to be taken. Can Jessica get over her crush on him? And will two weeks away from her job crush her dreams of a promotion? Or can Jessica finally be considered one of the lucky ones?
While I did enjoy reading Lucky Girl by Cate Lord, there were a few aspects of the book that I didn’t love. First, it seemed that Jessica needed a man in her life. There really wasn’t much other plot than her trying to figure out how to go about catching Nick. That was unsettling to me. A second would be that halfway through the book, readers (and Jessica) are still to believe that he has a girlfriend. So why Jessica acts like Nick already belongs to her and makes him feel terrible for dancing with said girlfriend was pretty baffling. I actually started to dislike Jessica during this time, because she was acting like she didn’t care Nick was with another woman- she was going to get him. As I continued reading, I was eventually able to warm up to Jessica and her complicated crush on Nick, and the rest of the book turned out to be quite enjoyable. It was fun to read about a beauty editor and the assignments and articles that Jessica has for her position at O Tart magazine. Overall, I would recommend this book, but be warned that the first half might be hard to get through.
[Rating: 3.5]
