Can’t Wait Wednesday: Only If You’re Lucky

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.

Only If You’re Lucky by Stacey Willingham

Thriller, Standalone

eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 384 Pages

January 16, 2024 by Minotaur Books

Blurb:

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the year, a year Margot spent studying and playing it safe, and asks her to room together, something in Margot can’t say no—something daring, or starved, or maybe even envious.

And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It’s a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she’s been in since the end of high school, when her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.

A tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal—another gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.

Why I Want to Read This Book:

I’ve struck out so far with this author’s books but this one sounds like something I might like. I like that it’s set in South Carolina and that it’s at a college as that’s a trope (is it a trope? Setting?) that I enjoy… thrillers set at colleges and boarding schools. Wish me luck on this one.

Will you be checking this one out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?