My Review - Twisted Luck - By Julie Solorio

Sometimes I keep myself in a little box in my obsessive love of the types of books I read. Twisted Luck is outside my box and I absolutely loved it. I laughed out loud while reading and sent excerpts as texts to friends to show them how funny something in the book was. I definitely recommend this book and I am sure you will love the dynamic of this group of characters.

I love Kaitlyn!! She is ridiculous and has a tendency to land herself in socially awkward landmines. Not only is this hilarious to read, but for me, I can totally relate since I seem to love to put my ‘awkward’ foot in my ‘act before I think’ mouth. Kaitlyn isn’t riddled with secrets and drama; she’s just a scatter brained, often socially inept girl, who can make me laugh like no other. Her inner monologues and gift of finding herself in the craziest of situations; wondering how did I get here and which wrong step did I take are literary gold.

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I wasn’t even able to make eye contact with these morons until my second cup of coffee and until I was about half way into my Moons Over My Hammy. Then for some reason I couldn’t remember why I hated them all so much to begin with, which made them all break out into hysterics all over again.

The group of characters in this book is the perfect fictional little family. Hailey is the peanut butter to Kaitlyn’s jelly and the Thelma to her Louise, a hilarious duo for your reading pleasure. Marge is a train wreck. She is a disaster that you can’t and don’t want to look away from. Her crazy antics have you doubling over in laughter. Throw Cole and Matt in the mix and you get swoon worthy boyfriends to love, to round out this phenomenal group of characters.

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I woke up feeling hot and claustrophobic. I realized that Cole was basically pinning me under him with a leg over my lap and an arm over my chest. When I read books in which this happened to the main character it was always written as cute or sexy, and the girls usually basked in the delightful sensation of being pinned under their lover. That was total bullshit. I was sweating so much I was sure our skin was going to create a sucking sound when he finally pried himself off of me. His leg was pushing my bladder down in the most unfortunate way, and I was pretty sure that wet feeling in my ear was my own damn drool. Suffice it to say, nothing about this moment was cute or sexy.

I LOVE this passage. From my point of view I feel Julie Solorio was paying homage to the dirty books we love, while making note of the non-fictional reality of the things we read in a humors manner.

The end of the novel takes a little bit of a twist, deviating from the light story line and humor. Kaitlyn learns that life can be scary and not all rainbows and sunshine; telling the story of a young girl learning to navigate life once things are not the sheltered world it was previously. This demonstrated the transformation of a young girl finding out the world can be a dark place but she needs to find a way to continue living.

Julie Solorio writes beautifully in this novel, bringing humor and a story of friendship, crazy antics, and the transformation of a girl dealing with the dark in the world. I am beyond glad I was gifted this book and highly recommend it to all of you reading this. Check it out; I don’t believe you will be disappointed. You will laugh, relate, and wish you had a friendship like Kaitlyn and Hailey’s, a crazy neighbor like Marge, and boys to drool over like Cole and Matt.

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