A page turner. Haven't we all dreamed of winning the lottery ? For one family the dream comes true. Is it all it's cracked up to be... well I guess you can guess the answer to that one :) With plenty of twists and turns that will keep you wondering how it's all going to end, this is a great read.

My only reservation is that once the end arrived, I found it a little confusing. Perhaps worth another read!

Loved this book, such an emotive subject and really showed how different people react to suddenly coming into lots of money.
Lots of twists and turns, right to fhe very last chapter.
Really didn't want the book to end, which is always a good sign.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher HQ for this ARC.

My first Adele Parks novel. A teeny bit far fetched, but well plotted and possibly a cautionary tale.

Not a particularly endearing or nice cast of characters, even "good" Lexi was a bit too good to be true! But the story kept me involved and the twists and turns were very well handled. The final reveal was masterful and rather turned the whole story on its head.

Firstly I would like to thank the publisher, author and Netgalley for my free ARC.

This is a light read set in a village where neighbours have become friends and BBQs, parties and all round socialising together is a norm. Of course this kind of utopia can never last – if it can ever truly exist in the first place and the sceptic in me sees this as a total fairytale. So when Lexi and Jake our two protagonists win £18 million on the Lottery, their “friends” are determined to claim a share of it.

I’m not sure that any of the characters are relatable or if this was intentional by the author, but this is most definitely a tale of greed, envy, deceit, dishonesty and fake friendships. The author has written a story about how essentially winning or losing big doesn’t really change who you are underneath the mask you wear. If you’ve always been generous or stingey, joyful or a miserable sod, nothing is going to fundamentally change your make up. Well done Parks.

Just My Luck became a real page turner with several shocking twists. It started off quite slow for me and somewhat predictable but it definitely redeemed itself.
Well written with a good depth to each of the characters. Throughout the book I found myself stepping into their shoes thinking about what I would do in their position.

Love, money, friendship, betrayal. Adele Parks keeps you on the edge of your seat with Just My Luck. Imagine the feeling of becoming a millionaire overnight..

...but this is not your ordinary rags to riches tale, and we're taken on a journey through the best and worst of human nature. Characters and events are more than what they seem and the way each strand of the story is carefully woven together, leaves you hungry for more, and surprised time and time again right up to the very end.

Lexi and Jake's lives will never be the same.

Tense, gripping, fabulous.

Oh I really enjoyed this. We’ve all dreamt of winning the lottery but I doubt we’ve envisioned the problems it causes and the feelings that arise. Great read. Most of it I didn’t see coming, which was a pleasant chance. Highly enjoyable. I gave it a 4, rather than a 5 because I guessed the end.

A pleasant read with lots of possible outcomes that keeps you intrigued and reading throughout. Characters are all relatable

Would winning millions in the Lottery really change you??

6 friends are about to find out!

After entering the lottery as a syndicate for 15 years their numbers finally come up and the friends win almost £18 million!

However a fall out the weekend before, meant the syndicate no longer existed and Lexi and Jake get to keep the winnings for themselves..... or do they?

This wonderful book, highlights the good and bad, although mostly the bad, of winning the lottery.

Greed, envy, deception and not much joy! Money really doesn’t bring happiness!

Another wonderful read from Adele Parks, with many unexpected twists and turns that kept me guessing right to the end.

Very well written, as are all Ms Parks books. You will struggle to put this down.

I guess we all muse over what we might do if we won a lot of money on a lottery. How it would change our lives, friends and relationships. There is no way it wouldn't change how people would view you, even if you were adamant it wouldn't change you. Unless of course you gave it all away. I don't know about power corrupting but certainly money seems to in this novel by Adele Parks. The best and the worst in us is explored and nobody escapes untouched. Whilst not being overly imaginative it was an interesting read.

A story of winning the lottery must mean that all your dreams come true and days of worrying are all behind you. But this is not the case with Lexi and her friends. I found the start of this book a little slow and kind of had an inkling of the characters part in the end. Toma was my favourite character in this book with all the other characters thrown in the mix.

I normally enjoy Adele parks books but this one I got bored halfway. By the end I was skimming through to finish it. The characters were all a bit flat and the plot was meh.

After an intriguing premise, Just My Luck left me disappointed. Although it is well-written and reads easily, it became quite dull after the first few chapters and didn’t really improve. Cliche characters, predictable twists and the ending that completely contradicts everything in story beforehand... I must admit that I skimmed through the last quarter as I just wanted to be done with it. This is definitely one of my least favourite Adele Parks’ books.

A group of friends do the lottery every week then their numbers come up!
Lots of unexpected twists and turns.
This book was interesting and gripping

OMG this book should have been about a dream future after winning a huge amount on the lottery. It is so far from this. The events that unfold would make you want to turn back the clock to your life before your win. So many twists and turns. I could never of predicted the ending. You must read it.

Not very often I give 5 star reviews, but this was a brilliant read, great story, great charecters, very twity and turny with a good twist at the end, all tied up brilliant, loved it

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I really like this author and although I enjoyed this book I personally did not think it was one of her best. I found the characters quite annoying.

Lexi and Jake have a tradition with their friends of playing the lottery every Saturday. 15 years of nothing until the week after the two other couples pull out and Lexi and Jake win £18 million. How will it change their lives and their friendships.
I thought this was starting off as a fun read but it soon started twisting and turning. Told from Lexi and her daughter’s point of view this story had me making lots of guesses about where it was going.
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

A group of friends who have played the lottery for fifteen years have a falling out and the next week they win the lottery. Lexi who bought the ticket maintains that the other two couples had left the syndicate but they disagree and want their share.
A story of greed, envy and dishonesty with quite a few twists and turns.
Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Elaine Winterdale took the fall for the landlord. Aged 37, she got a suspended sentence because a faulty gas boiler had caused the deaths of 29-year-old Reveka Albu and her 2-year-old son Benke. Toma Albu, husband and father, had found them when he returned home.

Lexi Greenwood and her husband Jake had done the lottery, using the same numbers, for fifteen years with their friends Jennifer and Fred Heathcote and Carla and Patrick Pearson. It wasn't really that they expected to win, but it was tradition. On three Saturday nights each month, they'd meet in each other's houses, in rotation, and have meal and Jake would break the news that they hadn't won. Again. And so it might have continued until that Saturday night when Patrick lost his temper and he, Carla, Jennifer and Fred ganged up on the Greenwoods and said that they weren't going to do the lottery any more. Fifteen years' friendship seemed to be at an end.

Lexi felt the loss viscerally. It wasn't just the Saturday night meals, but Jennifer and Carla were her best friends. Carla and Patrick's daughter, Megan, was her daughter, Emily's best friend and Emily was dating Jennifer and Fred's son, Ridley. She knew that the other two couples were in a different league, financially - Jake had never really found a job that he could settle to - and they didn't live in the same, posh village. What hurt Lexi most was that the other couples had insinuated that doing the lottery was common, for losers.

Lexi bought a ticket the following week, but on the Saturday the other two couples cried off the meal. And the numbers came up. Lexi and Jake had won £17,870,896. Jake's the spender: there's a flash car outside the house within hours and shopping sprees to buy stuff the family didn't even really need. So much for the idea of not wanting publicity, then. Lexi's not in tune with all this - she'd always been careful with money. She'd always had to be that person and I don't really know how to stop.

The Heathcotes and the Pearsons weren't going to give up on the money easily and not everyone was going to be delighted for the Greenwoods' good fortune. And there's something Emily hasn't got around to telling her parents yet.

Oh, l loved this book. I didn't quite read it in one sitting but it wasn't for want of trying. I fell for Lexi straight away: even as a big-time lottery winner she still wants to go on working at the Citizen's Advice Bureau until the publicity makes it impossible. It was there that she'd met a homeless man - Toma Albu - who wanted help in tracing the man who had really been responsible for the deaths of his wife and child and her heart breaks for him.

Lexi's special, but all the characters come off the page well. Somehow Adele Parks makes the combination of the three couples work when they don't really have all that much in common - that's a real skill - and she produces some twists at the end which I wasn't expecting. It's a cracker of a book and I can't wait to read what she writes next. I'd like to thank the publishers for letting The Bookbag have a review copy.

I decided to read Just My Luck because I'd really enjoyed Lies Lies Lies in 2019. If Just My Luck appeals to you then you'll enjoy Lies Lies Lies.