Lucky Girl
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Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer is a story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert.
“Smooth and ruthless, Lucky Girl is M. Rickert at her ice-cold best.”—Laird Barron
Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner—all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is—she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when that party seems in danger of an early end, she suggests they each tell a ghost story. One that’s seasonally appropriate.
But Ro will come to learn that the horrors hidden in a Christmas tale—or one’s past—can never be tamed once unleashed.
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“Ro is not a huge fan of Christmas, but when she meets 4 fellow college students while studying at a local diner, she invites them to her small apartment for an impromptu Christmas dinner. After opening their small, hastily-procured gifts to one another, Ro, Grayson, Lena, Adrienne, and Keith exchange ghost stories. When Grayson tells his frightening story, the friends have no idea that stories truly can come back to haunt you.
Lucky Girl by M. Rickert was a huge disappointment for me. Marketed as a Krampus story, the lack of Krampus was a huge bummer. When it comes to novellas, pacing matters. Every page is needed when you have about 100 pages to write a complete story. Much to my surprise, I found myself struggling to continue by page 44; almost halfway through the book. It is not an easy thing for a book to bore me. Truly, it’s rare. It was possible that I would have liked this more if there was a competent protagonist. Sadly, Ro was a complete idiot. I guess the title of the book should have given that away for me. Her survival was certainly pure luck and not from anything resembling brains. Rickert can certainly write, but this was not a novella I would recommend. If this hadn’t been a read for book club, I probably would have DNFed it. For clarity, I have DNFed exactly two books ever. 2/5 stars
Favorite quotes:
“The rich could afford eccentricities the rest of us saved for dreams and nightmares.”
“Don’t you realize that evil people are fully capable of doing good things? How do you think they hide in plain sight?””About M. Rickert
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