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Bad Luck Club by Denise Grover Swank, Angela Casella
4.0
The Bad Luck Club is the fourth book in the Asheville Brewing series, and I have only read Getting Lucky (third book) before now. I can honestly say you can come into this series midway and catch up. I know we saw the epic fall of Lee in Getting Lucky, and now he's scraping his life back together. I will give the author's this; they didn't sugar coat Lee's path; he needed significant attitude adjustments and working on undoing a lifetime of mental abuse from Prescott Buchanan. This abuse is evident in every one of the Buchanans we've met, and they are healing as a family.
At the same time, Blue has been in much the same boat as Lee, but she's been trying to change with her new life in Asheville. Her path of doing this is by joining the Bad Luck Club, headed by Bear and his son Cal. The members are a motley crew of individuals who are stuck in bad luck mode for various reasons. Blue wants Lee to come to try to bring him back into balance. So we genuinely have two people who the negative forces have programmed in their lives and are trying to change. Their story is filled with their attraction (which is hot), verbal missteps (particularly Lee), and many fears on both their parts.
This book left me in tears several times at what both of these characters had to go through; I will say it's not physical abuse; however, the power of words and being manipulated by a parent is just sad. But the other side of the coin is how Lee and Blue find each other and are their road together. I am looking forward to more from these authors and their stories in Asheville and even more about Buchanan Brewery. #buchananisback
At the same time, Blue has been in much the same boat as Lee, but she's been trying to change with her new life in Asheville. Her path of doing this is by joining the Bad Luck Club, headed by Bear and his son Cal. The members are a motley crew of individuals who are stuck in bad luck mode for various reasons. Blue wants Lee to come to try to bring him back into balance. So we genuinely have two people who the negative forces have programmed in their lives and are trying to change. Their story is filled with their attraction (which is hot), verbal missteps (particularly Lee), and many fears on both their parts.
This book left me in tears several times at what both of these characters had to go through; I will say it's not physical abuse; however, the power of words and being manipulated by a parent is just sad. But the other side of the coin is how Lee and Blue find each other and are their road together. I am looking forward to more from these authors and their stories in Asheville and even more about Buchanan Brewery. #buchananisback