Helpful Score: 2
When Lucy wins the lottery, her life, which was already turned upside down, gets turned sideways. Her best friend resents her because not only is she knee deep in debt, but she was the one who told Lucy about the $87 million jackpot. Her sister, already a bridezilla, thinks the money should be used to fund a platinum wedding. And Lucy's possibly gearing up for a legal battle. How does she deal? By escaping to Palm Beach to hide out among the other millionaires.
To start off, you should know that this book is not a romance. It's got a romantic subplot - kind of - but it's definitely a story about Lucy and her lottery winnings and nothing else.
That said, however, this was a completely enjoyable book. I liked Lucy and I thought that the situation she found herself in was completely believable. Having never won anything worth more than $10 myself, I don't have any experience with the type of troubles a windfall can bring but I thought Gaskell deftly (and from what I can tell, accurately) portrayed the changes in the balance of relationships money can cause. Everyone in Lucy's life is affected by her winnings, some even more so than she is. I really enjoyed Gaskell's use of humor to balance some of the earth-shattering things that were happening to Lucy.
This wasn't the first Whitney Gaskell book I've read, and it certainly won't be the last either.
To start off, you should know that this book is not a romance. It's got a romantic subplot - kind of - but it's definitely a story about Lucy and her lottery winnings and nothing else.
That said, however, this was a completely enjoyable book. I liked Lucy and I thought that the situation she found herself in was completely believable. Having never won anything worth more than $10 myself, I don't have any experience with the type of troubles a windfall can bring but I thought Gaskell deftly (and from what I can tell, accurately) portrayed the changes in the balance of relationships money can cause. Everyone in Lucy's life is affected by her winnings, some even more so than she is. I really enjoyed Gaskell's use of humor to balance some of the earth-shattering things that were happening to Lucy.
This wasn't the first Whitney Gaskell book I've read, and it certainly won't be the last either.
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