Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.
And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It's a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she's been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered... and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.
From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal—another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.
Only If You're Lucky was yet another Stacy Willingham novel full of twists and turns. Margot appeared to be a naive young woman with tragedy in her past, and that is what she was, mostly. I felt bad for her getting involved with Lucy who just seemed like a manipulative person from the beginning. I wasn't wrong about either, mostly.
Final thoughts - This one was a slow burn with lots of flashbacks. It may have slowed down the pace a bit, but it was worth it in the end.
- Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
- Pages: 375
- Publisher: Minotaur Books
- Publication Date: 1/16/2024
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