Review: Go Team Walker!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2013
Don't let Ms. Ashley descriptive passages put you off from reading her stories, if you do, you'll miss out on another great story.Lady Luck has rarely, if ever, favored Alexa Anne Berry (Lexie).  Born to crack addicted parents, never knowing her parents, raised by a grandparents until the age of thirteen.  Spent the rest of her formative years in the foster care system, while in foster care, Lexie is enrolled into a new school and meets Bessie, who becomes her life long BFF.  Lexie spends more time with Bessie's family than her foster families.  Bessie's family has their own issues beginning with no strong male head of household, but Ella, Bessie's mom, is strong enough to keep her family together.  Lexie forms a bond with Ronnie, Bessie's brother and Ella becomes the mother figure Lexie never had.  Ronnie has a promising future but chooses the wrong path to easy money after watching his mom struggle to put food on the table for her four kids, Lexie included.  Ella refuses to accept what Ronnie offers as Lexie also refuses to accept what Ronnie offers, but she stays in her relationship with Ronnie until he's murdered even though she's begged him to change his ways.  It's through Ronnie's association with another pimp/drug dealer, Shift, that she meets Ty.  Shift calls Lexie for a favor and that favor is to pick up Ty from a state penitentiary in southern California.  Because Lexie loved Ronnie so much, she does this favor for Shift even though anyone who knows Lexie knows that she keeps herself apart from the underbelly of Ronnie and Shift's world - Lexie's bad luck was loving a man gone wrong.Tyrell Walker (Ty) was incarcerated for five years for a crime he never committed in the state he's never been to, California.  He's a native of Carnal, a town with bigoted police chief, Arnie Fuller (who appears in Sweet Dreams) with a force of dirty cops with the exception of officer Frank Dolinski and detective Chace Keaton, who gives off a different impression you'll find out in this story.  To say Ty is completely remote emotionally would be an understatement when he comes out to meet Lexie.  Ty is on a mission of revenge that includes clearing his name and making those who made him suffer, pay.  The secondary characters, Julius Champion, Ty's friend and fellow ex-con with connections as well as Angel Pena, a Dallas detective who knew of Ronnie's dealings as well as a soft spot for Lexie who set the wheels of justice in motion for Ty.  Tate Jackson (Sweet Dreams), a close friend of Ty who never turned his back on Ty, provides emotional and well as moral support to Ty and Lexie when they hit a rough patch.  Throughout Lady Luck, it's Tate as well as rest of Ty's close friends (Wood, Maggie, Pop, Stella, Krystal, Laurie, Jim-Billy, Deke all from Sweet Dreams), who provide the support to help keep Ty from going off the rails.  Ty being bi-racial (black father, Irving and white mother, Reece) didn't have it easy growing up, his father, an alcoholic and a mother with no maternal instincts other than to ask for money as Ty grew older and was able to work.  Ty is a bit coarse, rude and crude but if you were raised knowing nothing else, it shouldn't be a surprise.Ty and Lexie are a bit younger that Tate and Laurie (36 and 34), but their story just as riveting as Tate and Laurie's in Sweet Dreams.  In Lady Luck, you'll find out how deep the corruption in Carnal's police department runs and how it ties in with race hate crimes perpetrated by its own police chief, going back before Ty was born.  It's heartbreaking at times, sweet other times as Lexie and Ty learn about one another not realizing how deep they were into one another from the beginning because of their own obstacles to a life lived well.  Lexie is sweet and sexy through and through who's  bit naive, who begins to build a home life for Ty, that softens the edges of Ty's life.As I always look forward to losing myself for a few days in Ms. Ashley's stories, if this is you as a reader, don't pass up Lady Luck.  It starts off a bit slow but by 27% into the story, Lady Luck will take you on one wild ride.  Sorry for such a long review but Lady Luck packs in a lot of emotion.