“Do you know what I love most about humans, pet? It’s our utter dogged stupidity. When it comes to love we never learn. Ever. Even when we know the risks. Even when it makes much more sense to relocate to individualized climate-controlled caves, where our hearts have at least a fighting chance at remaining intact. We know the risks of opening our hearts up. And yet we keep doing it anyway. We keep falling in love and having babies and buying shoes that look incredible but feel like death. We keep adopting puppies and making friends and buying white sofas that we know we’re going to drop a slice of pizza facedown on. We just keep doing it. Is it ignorance? Amnesia? Or is it something else? Something braver?”Book: Love & Luck (Love & Gelato #2)
Author: Jenna Evans Welch
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult
Synopsis: Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding, and hoping she can stop thinking about the one horrible thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken—and threatens her future. But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads to arguments and even a fistfight between the two once inseparable siblings. Miserable, Addie can’t wait to visit her friend in Italy and leave her brother—and her problems—behind.
So when Addie discovers an unusual guidebook, Ireland for the Heartbroken, hidden in the dusty shelves of the hotel library, she’s able to finally escape her anxious mind and Ian’s criticism.
And then their travel plans change. Suddenly Addie finds herself on a whirlwind tour of the Emerald Isle, trapped in the world’s smallest vehicle with Ian and his admittedly cute, Irish-accented friend Rowan. As the trio journeys over breathtaking green hills, past countless castles, and through a number of fairy-tale forests, Addie hopes her guidebook will heal not only her broken heart, but also her shattered relationship with her brother.
That is if they don’t get completely lost along the way.
What I think about it...
The writing / story
This book is written in Addie's point of view and at the end of each chapters there are excerpts from Ireland for the Heartbroken: An Unconventional Guide to the Emerald Isle, third edition that Addie is reading. And I enjoyed reading it more than I did with reading Addie's story. I think the whole book is written nicely (but not nice enough to hold my attention). It was a lighthearted story and a quick read.
Oh God I admire Addie's brothers! They are so hilarious that I always look forward to their parts in Addie's stories. There was a cameo of Lina and Ren as well, in the end. On the other hand, I don't know what to feel about Rowan. He was just like a background character although he was always there. He didn't give me the feels Ren gave me during the first book. He was there but was kinda not there.
And Addie, oh Addie... is very annoying and childish and a pushover. I was really annoyed with her that I think if I have a younger sister like her, that complains every single time, I will definitely slap her to sanity.
Oops, I think I'm being too violent. But Addie is annoying. Like there was a part where she, her three brothers and her mom was inside the car and they were talking about the fight Addie and Ian had during their Aunt's wedding, she just won't shut up. It felt like I was inside the car with them.
Why it didn't work for me...
I thought I'm gonna like it, at least, because I lurve Love & Gelato but this was utterly disappointing. I just kept skipping everything. I did not enjoy this story at all. And Addie is just so stupid.
Like why she didn't think of the consequences of her actions?
Her brother warned her and yet she continued whatever it is she's doing.
And then she messed up.
Serves her right for being so hard headed!
She wanna be more than just the little sister of her three superstar-athlete brothers but if that is her way to be more than just the little sister, she really is bound to get doomed. Also there was a part where Miriam asked her to go on the stage and shout, "I am the hero of my own story," and I thought it was overboard, shallow and absurd.
I don't find the significance of this scene in the whole story just like how I don't get the point of the whole story.
My Verdict
I don't like this at all. And this has a lot of positive comments on Goodreads but I just can't seem to like it.
I don't like it at all.
Addie ruined this for me.
And the only thing that gave me emotions in this book are her brothers and Lina. Her brothers made me laugh and Lina made me cry. And Addie, well, she irritates me. So, no, this book is...
But wait, just to be fair (after all I've said above, I wanna be fair LOL), I started reading this at the same time I started reading Everlost but Love & Luck didn't catch my attention as much as Everlost did so I finished the trilogy first then I decided to finish this. I binged-read that trilogy and started this but I found my focus still not in this book. Maybe if I was in a different mood, I might have enjoyed this. Maybe.
MY RATING
★☆☆☆☆
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