Review: This is the couple I was dying to read about!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2013
Book three in the Shamrock Falls series by Kelley Vitollo, Just My Luck, is the one I've been waiting for since playboy lawyer Jace Macnamara and his introverted legal secretary, Betsy Harris were introduced in Lucky Break. While reading the sequel, The Luck of the Draw, I tore through the pages of Rowan and Breck's story, eager to analyze every interaction between Jace and Betsy to catch the slightest hint that Betsy's crush on her handsome boss would be reciprocated. The anticipation of my two favorite characters finally getting their own chance at romance made me giddy even before I started Just My Luck, and I can happily say that it was worth the wait.While I believed that it was only a matter of time before Betsy and Jace became a couple, I didn't expect that they would ultimately come together through a marriage of convenience. The arrangement of their mutually beneficial union is clinical, dispassionate, and far from romantic - not exactly the Happily Ever After that every girl fantasizes about. Somehow, though, Betsy's undisguised feelings for Jace lend an air of hope and giddiness to the unconventional proceedings.More often than not, I've wanted to slap Jace across his fictional face to get him to notice Betsy as someone aside from the quiet, reserved woman he works with, who is the complete opposite of the obviously beautiful, confident women he typically dates. The revelations about Jace and Betsy's respective pasts provide good reason for their current states of emotional detachment - Jace dealing with his issues via serial dating and Betsy coping with hers by withdrawing into herself - but the more insight I gained into their characters, the more I rooted for their happiness.What I love the most about the Shamrock Falls series is its strong sense of community. The small town and the colorful characters that inhabit it are quirky and entertaining; it's a bit like watching an episode of Gilmore Girls, except with more titillating romantic entanglements. The fierce sense of loyalty that characterizes the relationships between this group of friends is the heart of this series, and I love the continued presence of former protagonists in new books. Just My Luck is an engaging, relatively clean read, with a sweet love story between two incredibly likable characters. I'm excited to see what Kelley Vitollo does next with this series.