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New York City advertising executive, Elizabeth Bennet is determined to find a respectable date to take to Christmas dinner with her insane family. So, what’s a girl to do with only 26 days remaining? She and her best friend embark on a mad-cap dating blitz. Speed dating and blind dates become a source of frustration when one man continually shows up, hell-bent on either annoying her or capturing her heart. Fitzwilliam Darcy, wealthy, hunky, part time New York City firefighter is Elizabeth’s new client, one of thirteen men chosen for a fundraising, beefcake calendar. Sparks fly and ignite as misunderstandings abound. Sit back and laugh as friends and family play matchmaker, conspiring to bring these two together for an unforgettable, hot, holiday season in New York City. Lucky 13 is a fresh and fun Pride and Prejudice inspired contemporary, holiday romance. Imagine "You’ve Got Mail" meets "Sex in the City" in a sexy tale where the secondary characters are as lovable as our hero and heroine. Authors Note: This story has a companion blog that Elizabeth writes and all our characters comment in. Paperback purchaser will find the blog address at the beginning of the book along with the story's Spotify soundtrack and Pinterest inspiration. Happy Reading! *This novel contains adult language, adult themes, and sexual situations.*
- Sales Rank: #1786721 in Books
- Published on: 2014-10-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .66" w x 6.00" l, .87 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 292 pages
Review
Voted Favorite Modern Adaptation for 2014 by Austenesque Reviews
About the Author
Cat brings a fresh voice and approach to her books and oftentimes engages the reader with multi-layered storytelling through information blogs, Pinterest inspiration and Spotify music playlists in the hope to enhance their experience.
Lucky 13 is her debut novel. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and its local chapter, Tampa Area Romance Authors. Visit Cat's author website to learn more about her and her other stories: catgardiner.blogspot.com/
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A Holiday Treat!
By Daniela
This modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was a delight to read, from beginning to end! Elizabeth is this modern woman, in her late 20's, living in NYC. She starts, with the help of her friend Charlotte, this quest for a date to take to her mom's Christmas dinner and her sister's Jane's wedding. What she didn't expect was to find the love of her life along the way.
The book, of course, is much more than that. It is filled with lovely and funny characters and lots of love. The author also kept this blog in which Elizabeth posts about her dating adventures, which, IMO, was the best! It gives us this idea of the characters and their lives being real. After each chapter I would find myself running to the blog to read Liz's posts and the readers replies.
Apart from our dear couples romance, lovely banter and so many misunderstandings, the other characters were so good to read too. Charlotte and Rick, the crazy Bennet family and even Caroline!! Darcy is this amazing guy who does crazy things, like posing half naked for a calendar, in order to win Elizabeth's love, among other things. Their road to happiness is filled with heat arguments, lots of misunderstandings, blog posts and even kickboxing fights!
I think this book is a real inspiration for the holidays, because it talks about life, love, forgiveness and the search for happiness. All of these mixed with romance, comedy and lovely songs! I dearly recommend this book!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A fun, Pride & Prejudice-inspired modern story with a hot firefighter Darcy, an "unlucky" Elizabeth & lots of Christmas feelgood
By Ceri at Babblings of a Bookworm
Lucky 13 is a contemporary romance influenced by Pride & Prejudice. 26 year old Liz Bennet, despite having a successful career in advertising, has always considered herself unlucky. Her mother has always told her so at any rate. She was born on Friday 13th, a girl instead of a boy and has been told her whole life how she never measures up to expectations. Sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner with her parents, 4 sisters and their respective significant others and her aunt and uncle Liz has a realisation:
“There I was sitting down for our annual, calorie-laden, typically traditional, turkey dinner when all of a sudden, it hit me – once again, I was the unlucky number 13. It was the story of my birth and now my life. I was the odd person out. The only single at the table.”
Liz doesn’t envy her sisters their boyfriends – supermodel Jane is due to marry sweet millionaire Charlie Bingley on New Year’s Eve, Mary has settled for the unfortunate Billy Collins, Kitty has just become engaged to penniless Ashton and Lydia’s boyfriend is the lecherous George Wickham, who gropes her sisters under the table when given half a chance. However, she is sick of being singled out by her mother for being the only single Bennet daughter:
“I decided I would no longer sit idly by waiting for a good man to find me. I would have to go out and find him myself.”
Liz isn’t looking for Mr Right, just somebody she can bring as her date to the next Bennet family gathering, Christmas dinner and perhaps to Jane’s wedding. She sets about finding a date, trying personal ads (with unexpectedly amusing results!), speed dating, considers a blind date and even pays for the service of a Jewish matchmaker, despite not being of the Jewish faith herself.
Liz’s search is hampered by a few things. Firstly she doesn’t really believe that a decent man exists, judging from her unlucky dating history, and she’s had a real number pulled on her in the past, being manipulated and having her heart broken by her best friend Charlotte’s brother, John Lucas. She is scared to let anybody close to her.
“Unfortunately, now she’s become this self-fulfilling prophecy – dating and continually faultfinding, pessimistic about every man, and looking for a reason not to find love. She hides it well, but she’s immobilized by the fear of rejection and hurt.”
So if she meets somebody she’s very attracted to she’s likely to find excuses to fight it...
Enter Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, President of Pem Tech, founder of the charitable FD Burns Foundation, part time fire-fighter and generally gorgeous hunky man. Darcy’s parents died a few years ago, not long before Christmas, in a house fire while he was out being a party boy and since then he’s been carrying a huge burden of guilt around with him that he wasn’t there. He assuages the guilt through his fire-fighting work but the period in the run-up to Christmas is very hard for him and he works too hard, drinks too much, and is generally a real grump.
Liz’s ad company has been hired to spearhead the FD Burns fundraising campaign by the Chairman of the foundation, Darcy’s cousin Richard Fitzwilliam. He wants Liz’s company to create a fundraising calendar featuring semi-clad firemen and he is determined that his cousin the Grinch will feature as Mr December. Between a grouch and a girl with a chip on her shoulder, what could possibly go wrong?! Luckily for Liz and Will there are plenty of potential matchmakers in each of their corners helping them direct the spark between them towards something more constructive than fighting, if only they will let it happen.
I really enjoyed this romance. The chemistry between Liz and Darcy was fantastic, and I loved the humour, there are a few laugh out loud moments, including a very amusing rendition of Caroline Bingley, as a pooch matchmaker with a very unfortunately misnamed designer dog. This isn’t a modern re-telling of Pride & Prejudice, but there were some nods back to the original, such as some of the wording:
“It’s important to emphasize that a single woman, living alone in Manhattan, who is somewhat in want of a man, need to protect herself.”
Though the central theme of the story is the same as Pride & Prejudice, first impressions can’t always be relied on, there were other themes that I liked, such as overcoming the labels that have been applied to you. Mrs Bennet had spent years putting Lizzy down and this lack of self-worth she felt was exploited by a manipulative ex-boyfriend, ‘John the Jerk’ who was there for Lizzy just enough to make her rely on him while simultaneously using her and holding her back. I’m sure we all know people who have settled for a partner who doesn’t treat them as they deserve because they don’t believe anybody else would want them. Seeing her overcome her hurdles and realise that her attitude and prejudices were causing some of her own bad luck was wonderful. Darcy grows too, from a man who is scared to commit to a relationship because of his fear of loss to somebody who is willing to take a chance on love.
Mrs Bennet in this story is a character you can simultaneously love and hate, which is an impressive achievement! On the one hand, the way she treats her daughter is deeply unkind, but on the other hand she has some wonderful, funny lines that I couldn’t help but giggle at. She is convinced, incorrectly, that Charlotte is a lesbian and is trying to make Lizzy gay! I also loved the characters of Charlotte and Rick, a.k.a. Punky and Preppy, who were wonderful friends to Liz and Darcy.
The story is told mostly in the third person, but Liz has set up a blog 'All I want for Christmas...' (l13datingdiary.blogspot.co.uk) to document her progress in finding a date for Christmas which has extra information from her perspective, with guest posts from Charlotte. There are links at the end of most of the chapters to the blog posts. The blog adds not only differing perspectives on events but also progresses the story and I would strongly recommend reading the blog posts along with the story. I would have preferred the blog post text and comments within the book because they are such an integral part of the story that it would be a shame to miss them if you’re reading outside a wifi zone. My kindle also couldn’t cope with accessing the website but it’s worth the extra effort to access them on another device as you’re reading. The blog also has posts that give an insight into what happens to Liz and Darcy after the book finishes. I’d recommend this book in the run up to Christmas, it has a lovely slice of Christmas feel-good to it!
For those who seek/avoid such things there are no detailed sex scenes in this book, though there are some flashbacks!
*I received an e-ARC of this book from the author for my honest review
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
I have read this story and it is a great adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
By C. Mitchell
I have read this story and it is a great adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, very modern and funny. there are mature scenes but it is still very much worth reading. I loved the Jewish Matchmaker, she was a real hoot.
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