Only If You’re Lucky Book Review

Only If You’re Lucky

by Stacy Willingham

Publisher: Minotaur Books
Ginasbookreport Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Mystery / Psychological Thriller 
Read This If You Love: A Flicker in the Dark / All the Dangerous Things

“If you knew you could get away with murder, would you do it?”

When Margot heads into her second year of college, she is still struggling to start a new chapter of her life. She desperately needs a new beginning that helps her cope with the death of her best friend. When mesmerizing and mysterious Lucy befriends her, it sets off a series of events that no one anticipated. Well, maybe almost no one? We all have multiple sides to us…some just happen to be deadlier than others. 

This, imho, is the best of Willingham’s books. It kept me completely enthralled and fit into the murder, mayhem, and mystery box. It’s a great binge read for a stormy or dark night. Willingham (via Margot) describes in the following quote what a good book can do, and it definitely applies to Only If You’re Lucky:

“That’s the beauty of fiction, of words: when your life becomes too boring, too bland, too hard or depressing or chaotic or calm, they allow you to simply float away and inhabit another, try it on for size.”