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    Beginner's Luck
    Beginner's Luck
    Beginner's Luck
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    Beginner's Luck

    Written by Kate Clayborn

    Narrated by Will Damron and Carly Robins

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    When three friends impulsively buy a lottery ticket, they never suspect the many ways their lives will change-or that for each of them, love will be the biggest win of all.

    Kit Averin is anything but a gambler. A scientist with a quiet, steady job at a university, Kit's focus has always been maintaining the acceptable status quo. Being a sudden millionaire doesn't change that, with one exception: the fixer-upper she plans to buy, her first and only real home. It's more than enough to keep her busy, until an unsettlingly handsome, charming, and determined corporate recruiter shows up in her lab-and manages to work his way into her heart . . .

    Ben Tucker is surprised to find that the scientist he wants for Beaumont Materials is a young woman-and a beautiful, sharp-witted one at that. Talking her into a big-money position with his firm is harder than he expects, but he's willing to put in the time, especially when sticking around for the summer gives him a chance to reconnect with his dad. But the longer he stays, the more questions he has about his own future-and who might be in it.

    What begins as a chilly rebuff soon heats up into an attraction neither Kit nor Ben can deny-and finding themselves lucky in love might just be priceless . . .

    Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781541447066
    Author

    Kate Clayborn

    Double RITA(R) nominee Kate Clayborn lives in Virginia, where she spends her days reading and talking about all kinds of great books. Kate loves to hear from and connect with readers—follow her on Twitter, on Instagram, and on Facebook. Visit her at www.kateclayborn.com to sign up for her newsletter.

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    • 4/5
      Cute, feel good story with likeable cast of characters
    • 3/5
      Beginner's Luck is the first in a trilogy about 3 friends, Kit, Zoe, and Greer, who win the Virginia state lottery. Kit is a lab tech / research assistant who gets recruited by Ben Tucker, who works for Beaumont Materials in Texas. Kit is not interested in the offer, but she is interested in Ben. When she believes that Ben betrayed her, her world is turned upside down.This was a romance, but I wasn't as invested in Kit and Ben as I was in the 2nd installment, with Zoe and Aiden (yes, I read them out of order). I did like the ending, especially as I was surprised by the wedding.
    • 4/5
      Kit Averin is a smart research scientist who suddenly wins the lottery with her two best friends. She doesn't really let it change her life besides buying an old house of her own. She's gradually fixing it up using finds from Tucker's Renovations when she discovers that son Ben Tucker is also the recruiter trying to talk her into giving up her small college position to move to a corporate gig in Texas. Ben is also really nice and cute despite Kit's determination to not move or give up her well-loved job.I first read Ms. Clayborn's Love Lettering which I absolutely loved and then went looking for more of her work. This is a nice contemporary romance featuring intelligent people (a la Penny Reid) wrestling with the demands of today's working world. It's nicely written and has a good supporting cast of characters. Kit and Ben are sweethearts and I was rooting for them all the way. Nice start to the series.
    • 5/5
      Well...yay!
      This feels like it belongs on that shelf with Act Like It or The Hating Game (if anything belongs on that shelf with the Hating Game) in terms of contemporary debuts. There were so many many great things about this book.

      The heroine and her relationships: I'm including her relationship to her job, her friends, her town, her brother (they had me tearing up-sibling relationships are so crazy deep and this was well done IMO). What was wonderful is this all gave us a great idea of who Kit is. And who she wanted to be. And girl, I'm all for comfort zones and an ambition of having a stable, content life. That said, it was truly wonderful how this STEM heroine was portrayed, for that piece wasn't at all glossed over and I even noticed subtle and wonderful things by the author--For example, there was no assumption by the hero that a doctor was male-and then the heroine describes her-things like this make me giddy. It is a sign of a wonderful feminist author. I lamented a few weeks ago about someone telling us how competent a STEM heroine was (again!) and how a book tried to have such a feminist feel that it actually weakened this point for me. This was not the case in Beginner's Luck. Our heroine is competent, and they continually show us.

      So the secondary characters were all wonderful and I want to befriend every one of them. I cannot wait to read on for the next installment of (or maybe the one after that as I have high hopes for Greer)

      And then there's the hero. And the hero's dad. And the hero's, well everything felt very purposeful here too. He had me when he told her upon first meeting "I like you." And that first kiss..whew...He's not perfect. He holds his hopes and wants close, but it is clear from the outset that he begins to care deeply about Kit. He humors and even adores her friends for being who they are to her, he LISTENS. I kept finding myself thinking how adored that makes people feel to have someone who pays such careful attention to them. And there's that heartbreaking fuck-up that was not really his doing, but certainly led to his undoing. The hospital scene killed me, both at the time and when they referred back to it. I don't usually cry from books, but this one burned. "I'll do anything." And the fact that that included leaving. sigh. And he certainly had me when he looked around his bare Houston apartment and realized he didn't want to be there anymore.

      Then there's the final chapter in the salvage yard. "Don't expect his back." And then there's what follows....


      Maybe I should've come down from this book a bit, it was such a delightful surprise (despite two reviewers I follow closely adoring it as well!). My review feels unfocused and gushy, but it just makes me so happy to read a great book with excellent secondary characters and a love story that feels totally fresh.

    • 4/5
      Beginner's luck by Kate ClaybornStory starts out with three women and they're going over their day from hell at work while drinking and on the way out buy a lottery ticket.They win and their lives change. Kate is a biologist and nobody understands her work even the man, Ben who's there offering corporate financing if she'll join his team. He has no clue as to what she even does but she likes the looks of him. She had wanted a home and bought a house with her winnings.Zoey and Greer are her friends, like family. Story also follows Ben who's in the middle of getting his father discharged from the hospital and fixing up his house so he can stay in it as he ages and needs aids.Enjoyed both characters as it's a learning experience: her with her house that needs a lot of repairs and him helping and living with his dad.His dad works at the salvage yard and he has many things Kate can use at her new house.Heated scenes enhance this story.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 3/5
      Beginner’s Luck by Kate ClaybornBook #1: Chance of a Lifetime SeriesSource: NetgalleyMy Rating: 2½/5 starsKit Averin’s life runs on a tight schedule, a routine designed to make her comfortable and feel as if she has the home and family sadly lacking in her childhood. Even with her miraculous lottery win, Kit has no interest breaking out of her comfort zone and living up to her actual potential. Ben Tucker and his partner see Kit’s potential and want, more than anything to get Kit out of her current job, town, and life. She’s an incredibly intelligent and talented scientist who refuses to leave her university job. Though Kit finds the job satisfying, it doesn’t truly challenge her or push her scientific limits. In fact, Kit is the only one who can’t, or refuses to see how stagnant her job and life has become. When Ben Tucker walks into her lab and pitches her a totally new job, in a new state, with state of the art everything, he expects her to jump at the opportunity. What he gets is a resounding “NO!”The minute Ben Tucker leaves Kit’s presence he not only knows he screwed up horribly and he must see her again. Kit is Ben and his partner’s way out of a job they have both worked very hard to get out of, but that inexplicably isn’t the reason he wants to see her again. Behind the glasses, shy demeanor, and adamant refusal of his spectacular job offer, Ben sees a beautiful woman with a world of potential he wants to know absolutely everything about. Getting to know Kit isn’t the easiest thing in the world and Ben’s in with her happens quite by accident. With part of her lottery winnings, Kit bought a ramshackle home that needs a ton of repairs. As fate would have it, Ben’s father owns an architectural salvage yard that has so much of what Kit wants for her home. As the days and weeks go by, Kit and Ben become so much a part of each other’s lives which forces each to confront some hard truths. Ben must admit to himself and his partner his true involvement with Kit and how he no longer cares if she takes the job, and Kit must confront the fact that she is indeed in something of a rut and she doesn’t find a way to deal with her issues, she won’t ever be able to find true happiness. The Bottom Line: While there were parts of this book I liked, I found the read as a whole to be somewhat flat. Kit is so much of an introvert as to be a nearly non-existent character, and that’s a special kind of talent when you’re the lead female in a story. Ben is somewhat more extroverted and interesting, but only just. In truth, the most significant character in this book is Ben’s dad, who is loud and funny and really makes his presence felt. I genuinely liked the plot of this book but feel it would have been much better served by stronger, more forceful characters. Because of the plot and the plot alone, I stuck with this book to the bitter end but can’t honestly say I’ll be sticking around for the coming books in the series.