The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-MillsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was provided an ARC of this book via the author and Netgalley, all opinions are my own.
This was the perfect second chance romance leading into Valentine's Day. It is a complete standalone, and to my knowledge doesn't connect with any of the author's other works. In the town of Rose, the Kiss Lottery pairs strangers and those well acquainted in the hopes the couple finds true love. Everly and Beckett had that already, but their friendship and feelings for one another were shattered in high school. Her true feelings for him were put on display for the whole town to see, and he was given a choice and he didn't choose her.
Years apart have not healed all wounds, so when Everly receives an anonymous invitation to participate in this year's Kiss Lottery, she returns home to cover it for her podcast and to see if she can mend her broken heart. Beckett never left, and he never forgot his first love and the one that got away. With the help of their friends, a meddling Aunt, and a bit of an unsolved mystery Everly and Beckett are able to clear the air and open up about how they really feel.
This is a novella but I could have spent several novels worth of time in Rose with the characters, I really connected with them and the town and didn't want to leave when it was over. I really enjoyed the main and side characters and the town of Rose. Everly and Beckett were fun as they danced around each other before really confronting their feelings, given the novella length some of the scenes felt a bit under developed, but I think the author did a good job given the overall length of the book. I think had this been a full length novel, we would have seen the full development of those conversations and confrontations as we typically do in the author's work.
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