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    The Luckiest

    By M.J. O'Shea and Piper Vaughn

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    Lucky Moon: Book Two

    Rock star Nick Ventura has finally hit rock bottom. Jealous of his brother’s new love, he overindulges in his usual vices and winds up crashing his car into a department store in a drunken haze. Publicly humiliated and on the verge of jail time, he enters into a court-ordered rehabilitation program.

    Nutritionist Luka Novak is flamboyant, effeminate, and the type of gay man bisexual Nick would normally sneer at. But his sunny nature hides a deep hurt caused by an unfaithful ex-boyfriend. As much as Luka knows he should be wary of Nick’s reputation, he’s drawn to Nick despite himself. Their tentative friendship turns into romance, but Luka soon comes to realize Nick’s fear of losing his bad boy reputation means he’ll probably never go public with their relationship.

    Nick never needed anyone until Luka came into his life. Now he has to reconcile his carefree past with the future he suddenly wants more than anything. And the first lesson he must learn is how to become the man both he and Luka need him to be, rather than stay the boy he always was. Alone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateSep 8, 2014
    ISBN9781627989756
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    • 5/5
      The Luckiest is the sequel to Moonlight Becomes You, which was a 5 star read for me and one of my favorite books of 2011. I like this book even more.

      In Moonlight Becomes You, Nick Ventura was pretty much just one big fuck up and nothing has changed at the start of The Luckiest. Forced into rehab when he crashed his car into a store, Nicky meets Luka Novak, a nutritionist who works at the rehab facility. Their friendship turns into a romance in spite of Nick trying to convince himself that he's not in love with Luka. Now all Nick has to do is not make a mess of this relationship like he has with everything else in his life.

      I know a lot of people didn't like Nick in Moonlight Becomes You. I think after you read The Luckiest, you will fall in love with him, just like Luka does.
    • 5/5
      Re-read 4/16/14 for Re-Romancing the Faves Challenge. Sigh... I LOVE Nick. And my heart breaks for Luka every time I get to the Gil Kelley part. These two are so great together, and I love how Luka changes Nick. I wish he pulled his head out of his a$$ a bit earlier, but his final apology makes up for it all. And these two are so damn hot together!



      Read Originally 4/29/12: I really wasn't a Nick fan even from the first book, but he grew on me. Yes he was a jerk, but Luka had his faults too. The whole birthday party thing... Luka should have at least given Nick a chance to talk to him. I get him kicking Brent out and being upset; but, for all his bitching about Nick being a jerk, he wasn't much better himself.

      Any chance we get an Em and Surya story? Or maybe set Jeana up with Dre?!
    • 5/5
      I liked this one even better than the first one. Loved watching tough, crazy Nick settle down in his own skin. Sure, sometimes I felt like shaking him, but he's man, so that's just natural.
    • 3/5
      A good rocker storyline. Vices, rehab, and love.
    • 1/5
      While I enjoyed the others in the series, this book just kept me shaking my head in frustration. Here's why:

      1. How incredibly unprofessional is it for a health care professional to reveal who his patient is to a friend? I don't care how or why it happened, it did. And it wasn't the first time Luka was guilty of betraying both his famous patient's privacy and his own conditions of employment and ethical obligations.

      2. Luka isn't a mental health therapist but took it upon himself to act as one for Nick instead of referring him to the actual psychiatrist on staff (who of course, is a homophobic prick even though the reader sees no evidence of this in his treatment of Nick). He undermines the doctor from the beginning.

      Also, Luka is meant to be the centre nutritionist and exercise therapist but has enough time in his day to have his appointment with Nick, spend time with him in the gym and have lunch with him every day. No wonder the centre looks rundown - there are apparently no other patients.

      3. There was way too much telling. Nick had his accident, waited for a court date, and was just about done with his two months of rehab 14% of the way through the book (and a fair chunk of that book time was spent on Luka, his dog, his hag, and his mother). I didn't feel the connection between the MCs at all.

      4. I hated the 'Nick isn't really an full on addict' theme. Nick relied on drugs and alcohol and sex to get him through a day long before the accident (he just hid it well, like a functioning addict does). He went through withdrawals symptoms in the hospital because he was no longer taking the substances his body relied on, was "addicted" to, you might say. If he was addicted to the point of going through withdrawal, well, that's pretty much the definition of addict right there, not someone who's just on a binge.

      I'm not sure what the difference is between "full on addict" and "addict" but Luka seems to think there is. Nick may not be typically what people think of when they think 'junkie' but the only difference between Nick and that stereotype is money, not how 'addicted' they are. It was something that was mentioned more than once and it really bugged me that Nick's addiction was being downplayed to make him more palatable.

      5. Luka's 'oh, bless' attitude about Nick. "He's just being an asshole because he's hurting." Maybe, but perhaps he's also just a bit of an asshole.

      6. Luka's mixed signals: telling Nick not to flirt then telling him he's hot and winking at him while discussing his ass and calling him 'sweetie'.

      And this was all in the first 20% of the book. Look, I'm happy to shove aside reality and drown in unrealistic fictional situations as much as the next girl, but there is a line and these characters crossed it. As someone with real addiction issues, who is seeing a real psychiatrist because of them (and even though they are connected to food, it's still a psychiatrist I see for them, not a nutritionist), I couldn't get past the overwhelming unprofessionalism of Luka.

      It's disappointing because I loved the rest of the series, love these authors, and would have liked to read more about Nick, but the character of Luka really made it impossible for me to finish.