Ok, so let me start off by saying this.....there will be a lot of negative comments about this book. But that's not to say I didn't like it. I did.....which is surprising, because there were tons of things I wish we're different that would have made this book amazing. With all that being said, lets dig right in.
Lucky Number Four is a highly unlikely tale. The story centers around Pandora, or Dora, as she's called by her friends. She is a young twenty-something going to college and working in a cafe. She lives with her best friends, Julie and Kevin, who have just gotten married. She has always known that she needs to get a place of her own, however their extra curricular activities are pushing her to make that choice quicker than suspected. After seeing a listing for a roommate on a bulletin board at the local market, she decides to give it a try.
Dora goes to a beautiful loft to meet her new roommates and quickly realizes this loft would be way out of her price range. However, arrangements are made that allows her to afford the cost of the apartment. It's perfect. She has her own bedroom with a sitting area and a huge bathroom. The problem you ask? She is going to have to live with three remarkably beautiful and famous male models. They need a fourth roommate because one of them has a superstition in believing fours are lucky. Dora quickly says, "No, thank you," and thinks she is going to go on with her life looking for another roommate.
What happens from there is that one of the gorgeous roommates, Drew, decides that he really wants her to move in, that she would make the perfect roommate and even invites Kevin and Julie to move in the apartment downstairs. Although Dora is beyond pissed, she reluctantly agrees to move in (oh, yeah, because that would totally suck!) and give it a chance.
Here's where the story gets a little crazy. Dora's other best friend from college is a beautiful gay specimen by the name of Jeff. He is from money and apparently has no other friends because he spends almost every waking moment with Dora. He gets to know her beautiful roommates: Drew, Liam, and Colin. He goes to dinner with her "crazy" family, which includes a mother who is apparently psychic, but can't read her own family members.
So, without getting too much into the book, I am going to break this book down by the pros of the book, and then the cons.
Pros:
* I liked the idea of the book. I really did. Even though it was highly unlikely a situation, it did have a female fantasy aspect to it that I appreciated.
* I liked Dora's funny personality. She could be pretty spunky and shout out funny little quips here and there that had me laughing out loud.
* I really liked Jeff's character. In fact, my sister lives with a gay male named Jeffery and he reminded me a lot of them. He was definitely someone I would/could be friends with, and not just because of the money.
* You get your happily ever after. Which is the way we honestly love to have our books end.
Cons:
* The book was totally unrealistic. The idea of a beautiful male model tracking a plain Jane girl down to get her to live with them is more than unlikely.
* The book took way too long to get to the parts I felt I really wanted to read longer then my droopy eyelids would hold. We're talking page 160 or so of a 214 page book.
* The dark bold type which is from one of the male models POV professing his love for Dora is written so immaturely that you would swear it was written by a fourth grade boy versus a professional male.
* If Julie and Kevin are such great best friends and all, why wasn't Julie immediately on her speed dial when traumatic things happen in the book.....just felt off.
* The ending felt very rushed. She took so long to get to the heart of the book, but then totally wrapped it up so quickly. And trust me, there was quite a bit that happened in that last part of the book.
* If Dora's mother is psychic, why was her friend Henry feeding her all the information about her roommates? They aren't family members, so her mother should totally be capable of reading the way they were feeling.
* And the most annoying part of the book is Dora's constant whining and nagging about how ordinary she is when everyone around her is constantly telling her how beautiful she is. There is no way a model would be so attracted to someone with such little self-esteem.
The idea of the book was so fun...in fact that's why I chose to buy it. But in the end, the idea was bigger than the book. With some major tweaking, it could have been a fun, flirty, and awesomely sexy story. It just fell a little flat for me.
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