Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch

4/5 Stars

Going into this book I anticipated it being a lot like Love & Gelato but it wasn't and that was okay. Despite the title (which I thought was going to be about romantic love, but it turns out it was about sibling love), this was a book more about SIBLINGS. As I was reading I realized that almost every single YA book contains some sort of romance, but this was a really moving piece about the highs and lows of sibling relationships which is rare in YA books.

To pursue a romantic relationship in a book is an easy, conventional thing for writers to do traditionally, but an accurate, well-done portrayal of what sibling relationships are like is a hard thing to do considering everyone's relationship with their sibling is so different.

At first, I didn't like the fact that this book focused on the sibling relationship and tossed the romantic one aside, but the dynamic that Addie and Ian share is so universal that I couldn't help but fall in love with them. The same sort of "family first, romance last" kind of plot was in Save the Date and it was something I really enjoyed in that novel as well.

Also, who can deny any travel book, especially IRELAND!!!! This book was nowhere near perfect, it was sometimes boring, but the sibling dynamic made up for it. The romance was eh, but it wasn't really the-all-be-all of this book so it's fine.

Jenna Evans Welch has become an auto-buy author for me ever since I read Love & Gelato. Count of my review of Love & Olives.