G. Bianco, 2019
What happens when you win the lottery and you have to tell your estranged husband? Find out in Play to Win by Jodie Slaughter which comes out tomorrow, July 11th! Miriam Butler’s life is going nowhere in the slowest, most excruciating way possible. Stuck in the same barely-paying job she’s had since she was sixteen and spending every night sleeping in the spare twin bed in her mother’s house, her existence might be hilarious if it wasn’t so bleak. One trip to her favorite corner store upends everything when she finds herself the winner of a Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot. Unfortunately, not even life-altering roses come without their painful thorns. Hers just so happen to be in the form of an estranged husband who has the right to claim his share of her money. It’s been eight years since Leo Vaughn has had a conversation with his wife. When she calls out of the blue, practically begging him to come back to Greenbelt, the last thing he expects her to tell him when he gets there is that she’s come into a whole heap of money. She offers him a life-changing proposition of his own. Take a lump sum, finally sign the divorce papers, and be done with her for good. Only, a forever without her is the last thing Leo wants. So he gives a proposition of his own. One that won’t cost her nearly as many millions, but will buy him the time to do the one thing he’s been hungry to do since he left -- win her back. I like this book and found it easy to binge read, but I was honestly hoping for more of a redemption arc for these characters and their love story. The plot concept had such potential (a drastic life change forces two lovers to reconnect), but I think it could’ve been better executed. One of my favorite tropes is marriage in crisis, but this one just didn’t fully hit the mark for me. I know that relationships are complicated and I appreciated how this story showed the realities of that, but I just couldn’t understand certain characters' actions and couldn’t forgive them for it. Plus I could tell if I liked the side characters because they were actually decent people or disliked them because they let the two main characters act like fools. However, if you read Slaughter’s previous book, Bet On It, you will appreciate returning to the same small town of Greenbelt, South Carolina. While some might like this book, this marriage in crisis lottery romance missed the mark for me. *I received an ARC from St. Martin’s Press in exchange for my honest opinion.
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