false6447037189086262297818908626262013The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6447037-the-sinful-life-of-lucy-burns
2921071Elizabeth Leiknes201343falseMon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sun Jul 05 05:47:59 -0700 2009Mon Oct 19 00:57:13 -0700 2009
Lucy made a vow when she was 10 years old that in exchange for her sister's life she would do anything. Unfortunately someone was listening on the other side and since her sister was almost killed when she refused to fulfil that vow, Lucy has been a facilitator, someone who leads the targeted victim's to the devil's furnace.
I actually found Lucy a fun character, tired of being beautiful, perfect and sexually attractive without being able to commit and find a boyfriend to keep her company. She is ready to change her designer clothes and her wealthy life style for something more meaning. Unfortunately she is stuck with helping the dark side and leading people to their demise in her basement. Her need for friendship and family is fulfilled by her neighbour Maggie’s family as she feels she must stay away from her own family to protect them.
When Lucy meets Luke Marshall, a blind university teacher she really wishes her life could be different. As Luke, who being blind is unable to see the perfect and gorgeous Lucy, falls in love with her (even after their first meeting involved a drunken Lucy peeing in her closet), Lucy starts to feel much trapped by her odd circumstances.
But then, she and Maggie attend the concert of her favourite singer, Teddy Nightingale, and he reveals to Lucy that there's a way to break the contract and be free again. I thought Lucy's idea to use the bad guys to make the number she needed to free herself quite fun, she was a girl who did some really bad things but she always seemed to have a good motive to do them, usually saving someone's life. Unfortunately Finn, her young neighbour, is on her hit list too and soon she finds herself needing to choose between her life and his.
The book has a chick-litish feel that appealed to me, had this been a serious book I don't think it would have worked so well. But as it is it made for a very pleasant read.