The Luckiest by Mila McWarren

25446714Title: The Luckiest
Series: N/A
Author: Mila McWarren
Genre: New Adult Romance
Length: Novel (256 pages)
Publisher: Interlude Press (July 7th 2015)
Heat Level: Mild
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥2.5 Hearts
Blurb: When New York-based memoirist Aaron Wilkinson gathers with his high school friends to marry off two of their own, he is forced to spend a week with Nik, the boy who broke his heart.

As they settle into the Texas beach house where the nuptials will be performed, Nik quickly makes his intentions clear: he wants Aaron back. “He’s coming hard, baby,” a friend warns, setting the tone for a week of transition where Aaron and Nik must decide if they are playing for keeps.

ISBN: 9781941530399

Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/Luckiest-Mila-McWarren-ebook/dp/B010FZF13U

Reviewer: Tams

Review: Aaron Wilkinson has spent the last several years trying to get past his break-up with Nik, his high school sweetheart. The two run in the same circle of friends and have found a way to co-exist around each other, but there are still feelings there, under the surface.

Aaron is in pain and he’s angry over having his heart broken by Nik, but most of all he’s angry at himself for still loving the guy. Nik, well Nik just wants to find his way back into Aaron’s life. But Aaron doesn’t trust that Nik won’t turn around and break his heart again.

Stuck in a rural lake house for two weeks while they plan their best friend’s wedding, Aaron and Nik are forced to face each other and the pain of the past. After the wedding bells ring and the toasts are made, will Nik and Aaron go back to New York together? Or go their separate ways?

There were things I really liked about this book, but I had a lot of issues as well. Aaron narrates the story and to say he’s a bit neurotic is an understatement. The story jumps in time a lot. From high school back to the present, then a couple of years back to a secret online blog Aaron writes, back to the present, back to high school, back to the blog and so on.

I had whiplash and sadly, I couldn’t always keep up. At one point I thought something was happening present day but it was actually another high school memory, I was very confused.

The characters rambled a lot as well. This book could have been written as a novella with about half of the conversations cut or shortened, the struggles the two ML were having with getting back together explored in more detail and this probably would have been a 4-5 star read.

Now, what I enjoyed. The relationship between Aaron and Nik, how they balanced each other out. They are opposites in almost every sense of the word, while Nik wants to dive head first back into the river of a relationship, Aaron puts the breaks on and faces the challenge of talking about what went wrong before, how they can avoid that in the future. The inner workings of their circle of friends. They were honest and angsty and supportive and I liked that camaraderie within the group.

This was just an okay read for me. If you are a younger reader this might be more appealing for you, it’s a new adult type of story. The content is R-rated, but the characters still have a lot of growing up today and it shows with how they talk and communicate.

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