DOG WALKER TRILOGY BOOK 2: THE NIGHT SHE GOT LUCKY
Susan Donovan
ISBN: 978-0-312-36605-06
St. Martin’s Press
June 2010
Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback

Divorced, single mother Ginger Garrison feels as her life is over. Her husband is gone, her kids are almost grown, and she’s just got laid off from her job. When she meets Lucky, the photographer at her friend’s wedding, the sparks fly, but the last thing she needs in her life is another man who she cannot trust.

Lucky is not feeling so Lucky anymore. A world renowned photographer, his career is destroyed when photographs he’d taken were stolen and given to the Chinese government and someone skimmed funds from his company account. Now he’s sleeping on his friend’s couch and trying to clear his name. In the meantime, he decides to get into pet photography to raise money to pay back his company. His first client is Ginger, a woman who makes him suddenly rethink the benefits of home and settling down with one woman as he suddenly realizes that he doesn’t have to travel the world to find happiness.

The only previous novel that I’ve read by this author is the predecessor in this series, Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, which I really enjoyed. I hear that others have problems with some of her newer releases, but since I’m a recent reader, I am not familiar with her previous work and have enjoyed each book of hers that I’ve read so far, including THE NIGHT SHE GOT LUCKY. I need to preface this review to say that I am not a dog person and dogs play an important part in this series. The dogs are a reflection of the heroine’s personalities and where they are at in their lives. It is a great testament to the author’s writing skills that I could sit and read these stories. The dogs add to the story but don’t take away from the main focus of Grace and Lucky’s developing relationship.

Grace is the type of woman almost anyone can identify with, or at least woman of a certain age or life experience could. She’s recently divorced to a man who knows how to push all her buttons in the wrong way. She’s at an age where she’s wondering if life has passed her by and she’s the single parent to two sons. When Lucky crashes into her life, he transforms it. Lucky the photographer is so different from anything that she’s ever known. For the first time in her life, she has a man who is making her feel important, putting her needs before hers. It’s a heady and scary thing as all her barriers she built up around herself are stripped away. It’s heady because no one has ever made her feel like this before. It’s scary because she’s realizing that everything she had before this was a lie, so she has to redefine her entire belief system.

THE NIGHT SHE GOT LUCKY is an amazing transformation story. I can’t say enough good things about it. The chemistry between Grace and Lucky were off the charts. The conflict in their relationship was believable based upon the growth they both needed as characters. And I totally bought into Grace and Lucky’s happily ever after. The only thing that I didn’t get in this series was the matchmaker lady. I totally don’t get her purpose and the slightly magical quality about her that doesn’t fit into the overall feel of the series. However, since it is such a minor thing I was able to ignore it and really enjoy THE NIGHT SHE GOT LUCKY.

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My name is Lynette, I live in Michigan. I'm a stay-at-home mom married to a cop. I've been reading romance novels since I was eleven years old. I'll read just about anything that has a happily ever after, though my favorites are romantic suspense, erotica, historical, and contemporary novels. Reading has become the fun thing in my life that has kept me sane.

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