Book Summary
Main character Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s wedding, hoping she can take her mind off the one thing she did that left her heartbroken and sad—and threatens her very future. Enters her brother, Ian, who is defiantly not about to let her forget, and his constant provoking leads to arguments and even a fight between these two siblings. Miserable, Addie can’t wait to visit her best friend in Italy and leave things including her brother and her problems behind. So Addie is surprised when she discovers an unusual guidebook titled Ireland for the Heartbroken, hidden in the shelves of the dusty hotel library. With this she’s able to finally escape her anxious mind and Ian’s criticism. And then their travel plans change within milliseconds. And suddenly Addie finds herself on a tour of the Emerald Isle, trapped in the smallest vehicle known to man with Ian and his cute, Irish friend Rowan. As the three of them journey over breathtaking green hills, past many castles, and through a number of fairy-tale like forests, Addie has high hopes that her guidebook will heal not only her broken heart, but also her shattered relationship with her brother. If they don’t get completely lost along the way.
Review
Love and Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
This book is a sequel to Love and Gelato which is a book that is in my top 5 of the best books I’ve read. So you can imagine my joy when realizing there’s sequel to it and so I had super high hopes that this book would be just as great or better than the first. I am happy to report that it lived up to my standards!! I love how in this book they focus on a character who was mentioned in the first book but wasn’t really that important, and in this book we get to hear more about her side and her story. It’s really interesting to me when authors decide to start the first chapter with a climax of sorts and then explains that as it goes. I feel like the best part of the book is that one it’s set in Ireland and two there is a hint at a love interest the whole time but they end up becoming great friends and helping each other heal instead. This made the main character independent and didn’t make her rely on a boy. I believe this book would be great to read to remind you that others can help you through hard times even when you feel alone!
Author
Jenna has wrote three books and her first book was on the YALSA’s Teen’s Top title in 2017, it was a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction, and a selection for the Texas Lone Star Reading List in 2017. She is also a NYT Best Selling Author.