I wanted to read this book because I wanted to read more from authors that I've enjoyed in the past. I loved Marissa’s Cinder series and when I saw she was writing a young adult romance book, I was intrigued with how it would go. I didn’t enjoy the first book in this duet and the second one wasn’t much better.  

This book is based on Jude, and he is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw his comics, host regular D&D nights with his friends, work at his parents’ vinyl record store and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he comes across a mysterious twenty-sided dice and finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck. Suddenly, everything Jude has ever wanted is within reach. His first art submission is accepted to his favourite fanzine. He helps his friend’s song become a finalist in a songwriting competition. And he’s the 100th caller to a local radio contest, winning him a pair of coveted concert tickets, which he uses to ask out the popular girl he’s been crushing on. For a few blissful weeks, he feels invincible. But when he loses the magic dice at a local music festival, his luck takes a turn for the worse. He struggles to reclaim his good fortune while fighting off long-buried feelings for his best friend – who is definitely not the girl he’s supposed to be in love with. Can Jude risk stepping into the spotlight long enough to win the true girl of his dreams? Or is he doomed to be unlucky in love forever? 

One of the main issues I had with this book is that I didn’t like the supernatural aspect of it or the whole luck with the dice thing. Like at all. Unlike Prudence, I was rooting for Jude, but I would have just loved like modern vibes, Jude gets a makeover and then realise who he liked and that he was his best friend. I was just hoping he would realise that he liked Ari way sooner than he did, he realise he liked Ari once someone else was interested in her. That was what was driving me nuts. I felt so badly for Jude because he was like a second dad and the second he was interested in something else or someone else, everyone had to get involved.  

I liked Ari and I liked that she wasn’t going to jump in just because Jude was finally talking to his crush. She was sticking to her self-worth of if he doesn’t want her, then fine, she will move on. I loved the D&D nights and how Maya was all for being herself around Jude and then actually stood up for him, it reminded of an older version of the movie Wonder and that the cliche actually sucks.  

I liked seeing Jude grow and getting confident about what he wants and doesn’t care if he gets rejected. I would love a book about Ezra, I feel like he has a bit of trauma and he is using the whole class clown thing, but there is definitely more there.