{"id":11808,"date":"2021-04-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11808"},"modified":"2021-04-03T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:54:38","slug":"c-for-chasing-lucky-choices-second-chances-by-jenn-bennett-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11808","title":{"rendered":"C for CHASING LUCKY & choices & second chances, by Jenn Bennett (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Moving, again.
Mom’s secrets, of course.
People don’t change\u2026 or do they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josie dreads going back to Mom’s Rhode Island hometown where the Saint-Martin women’s “unlucky in love” curse is well-known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But someone has to run the family bookstore while her aunt and grandmother are trekking in Nepal, so here they are for the historic coastal town’s summer tourist rush and run-ins with old friends and adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich families like Adrian’s sail their fancy boats<\/a> and working families like Lucky’s fix them up – no love lost between the golden ones and the year-round residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That goldens’ party with her cousin was a mistake – turning down drunken Adrian’s advances makes 17-year-old Josie a target for the rich kids’ ridicule all summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When did the aspiring photographer’s childhood best friend Lucky turn into the town bad boy?
Why does he help her out of a sticky situation with the police?
What’s the truth about that scandalous picture suddenly making the rounds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully her long-gone famous photographer father will get back in touch and help Josie escape this tiny town and go to art school<\/a> on the West Coast\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A romantic boat ride, a sudden storm, vandalism, long-buried secrets unleashed in this tangled love story.
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Chasing Lucky \/ Jenn Bennett. Simon Pulse, 2020. [author site]<\/a> [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moving, again.Mom’s secrets, of course.People don’t change\u2026 or do they? Josie dreads going back to Mom’s Rhode Island hometown where the Saint-Martin women’s “unlucky in love” curse is well-known. But someone has to run the family bookstore while her aunt and grandmother are trekking in Nepal, so here they are for the historic coastal town’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10,90,22,4,20,5,16,18,44,185,39,49,184,274,15,336,21,73,35,6,8],"class_list":["post-11808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-photography","tag-relationships","tag-rhode-island","tag-self-image","tag-summer","tag-surprises","tag-travel","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11838,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions\/11838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}