Lucky Enough
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4.5 • 180 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Lucky’s story comes full circle in the conclusion of the Lucky O’Toole Vegas Adventures.
“Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly (review of Lucky Stiff)
Home: A refuge. An escape. Where the heart is.
After a high-body count trip through Europe, Lucky O’Toole, the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over the top Strip casino, is home and searching for peace, quiet and a quick fix for a broken heart.
She should know better.
Her father is failing in his fight to regain his health after taking a bullet to the chest.
Her mother, Mona, is increasingly desperate to be “useful” which usually results in her being anything but.
Her love life is in shambles.
The DEA is after her, but not giving a hint as to why.
The NBA is in town for their All-Star break extravaganza highlighting the new rookies.
Somebody got cute and put a Bugatti on top of her hotel.
And a dead guy turns up in delivery bay seven with his skull bashed in.
Not exactly the soft reentry Lucky had hoped for. But she can handle it.
Until her father, after checking himself out of the hospital, summons Lucky for a “family” meeting. A secret from his past puts the future of the Babylon and the family in jeopardy.
And he expects Lucky to fix it.
Worse, a financier who played cat-and-mouse with Lucky around the globe, striving to leave her holding the bag, could hold the key to her saving it all.
Can she trust him?
Does she have a choice?
Find out by getting your copy of this light, funny, romantic mystery today!
AN INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH COONTS
Why did you decide to write humor?
I’m not sure I decided to add snark to the Lucky books, specifically to Lucky’s own voice, it just happened that way. When I was a kid, my mouth always got me into trouble. Finally, I’ve found a way to harness the sarcasm for the Forces of Good—or at least in a way not to anger my grandmother. And when Lucky started talking to me, she had a strong dose of sass in her.
The Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure series is hard to categorize. Is that by design?
When I set out to write Wanna Get Lucky?, I knew I wanted to write a romp through Las Vegas. I had the characters and the setting but no real understanding of narrative drive. So, I threw a young woman out of a tour helicopter into the middle of the Pirate Show and let the story unfold. A bit of murder to keep the plot moving, some wisecracking and Vegas mischief to make you laugh, and some romance to keep it interesting. A bit of a mash up, but it works.
PRAISE FOR THE LUCKY O’TOOLE VEGAS ADVENTURE SERIES
“Lucky’s story is funny, fast-paced, exuberant and brilliantly realized.” - Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Get ready to win big--with a novel that will keep you glued to the pages all the way to the end.” - Brenda Novak, New York Times & USA Today bestselling author
"More fun than a winning streak in Vegas. Lucky O’Toole is a character with brains, beauty, and a wry sense of humor. Readers will want to meet her again—and soon." - Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times bestselling author
"Deborah Coonts...entrusts the sleuthing to a brainy beauty who sees the lighter side of human folly." - New York Times Book Review
"Las Vegas is the perfect setting for this witty tale of misdirection and larger-than-life characters. Fans of J. A. Konrath's Jack Daniels series will love this." - Library Journal, starred review
“A whirlwind of a kooky crime novel, and readers will enjoy every minute of it. Coonts provides the perfect solution for readers waiting for the next Stephanie Plum book.” - Booklist
Customer Reviews
Great series
All of the books are light reads that go quickly. While you can easily pick up any book in the series and read it as a stand alone, it’s best of read in order so you can appreciate the growth that Lucky, Teddie, and Romeo have experienced as the series progresses.
While I’m sure a lot of people felt the series ended on a cliffhanger, I think it ended just right. A “ and they all lived happily ever after” type ending would be wrong for Lucky. That type of ending implies that she knows who she wants to be with and that her life will be carefree. We’ve read the series, that’s not how Lucky works. Her life is chaotic, messy, and she herself isn’t sure who she wants to be with.
If you’re looking for books with a strong female protagonist, this series will suit you. If you’re looking for a whodunnit where you cannot figure out the culprit by the halfway point, this series is for you. If you’re looking for a series with a helpless female who constantly solely relies on men to come to her rescue and/or a whodunnit that telegraphs who the bad guy is early on in the book and ends the series with a “and then they lived happily ever after”, you should probably just find a different series.
A delightful vicarious life!
Loved reading Lucky’s series...and am now suffering withdrawals.💖
Not the end...
So if this is the final book in the series it left a whole lot up in the air. This was not my favorite in the series and I hope at some future time Lucky rides again. She has grown a lot but we need to see how she thrives when she’s in charge, what will happen with the men in her life as she continues to find out who she really is...I see many other adventures she could be involved in!