If You're Lucky

Name: If You're Lucky
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Yvonne Prinz
ISBN: 9781501901997

Author: Yvonne Prinz

Narrator: Amanda Leigh Cobb

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/20/2015

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Suspense, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

When seventeen-year-old Georgia’s brother drowns while surfing halfway around the world, Georgia refuses to believe Lucky’s death was just bad luck. Lucky wouldn’t have surfed in waters more dangerous than he could handle. Then a stranger named Fin arrives in False Bay, claiming to have been Lucky’s best friend. Soon Fin is working for Lucky’s father, charming Lucky’s mother, dating his girlfriend. Georgia begins to wonder: did Fin murder Lucky in order to take over his whole life? Determined to clear the fog from her mind in order to uncover the truth about Lucky’s death, Georgia secretly stops taking the medication that keeps away the voices in her head. Georgia is certain she’s getting closer to the truth about Fin, but as she does, her mental state becomes more and more precarious, and no one seems to trust what she’s saying. Is Georgia’s descent into madness causing her to see things that don’t exist—or to see a deadly truth that no one else can?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morris

In what is a rarity in young adult books, the topic of schizophrenia is tackled head-on in “If You’re Lucky”, a taut thriller that leaves the readers as confused as the narrator as to what is real and what is not. Georgia, the main character, is a teenager with paranoid schizophrenia who is dealing w......more

Goodreads review by Brett

Is it a mystery? Or is the narrator's grip on reality completely off? Really enjoyed this. One of those reads where I was sad to have it end and not be in that story anymore.......more

Goodreads review by Holly

I thank Algonquin Publishers for this advance copy for my unbiased review. Yvonne Prinz has tackled some tough issues in this book, namely the death of a sibling and schizophrenia. For that I give her credit.She has written a YA thriller, which others have hailed as gripping. Georgia is a teen girl wh......more

Goodreads review by Trisha

"Loss can do some pretty crazy things to people's heads." This was an interesting little roller coaster ride. I'm glad that this story is from Georgia's perspective and not someone else. Whether this is an accurate portrayal of any of the issues in the book, I don't know, I only know that I enjoyed t......more