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Date with Destiny by Lucy Vine

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed Seven Exes and when I met Lucy in February, she was promoting this book and it sounded like an interested read. However, I personally struggled to get into this book. 

This book is based on Ginny, and she is about to turn 32. It's a year she’s been thinking about for a long time. Sixteen years ago, she crossed paths with a psychic who made some key predictions about her thirty-second year – Three bad: A heartbreak, a loss of independence, and a death and three good: A life-changing trip, reconnecting with someone, and meeting her soulmate. The issue is that Ginny is due to get married in a month, but it’s all nonsense, obviously. But when some of those predictions start coming true, she starts to wonder what might happen next.  

This storyline was funny and adorable, and I was rooting for it. I ended up liking the side characters more than the main character. I didn’t like Ginny; she was acting like she was 16-year-old rather than 32-year-old. I understand being a people pleaser, but she was just over the top. I loved Toni and Myfe, they were ones who i would have loved to have the main storyline. We knew the predictions were coming and that they were going to happen, but I would have liked to be surprised at who was the heartbreak and the death.  

I didn’t like the love triangle/square that was going on and the miscommunication aspect of it, I would have loved for her not to find her soulmate and like they said to leave it to her and her best friends. Celeste gave me a headache and I found myself skimming her monologue and rants because it was all the same.  

I enjoyed Lucy’s writing and her storyline and cannot wait to see what she’s writing next.  

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