New Release: Story of My Life by Lucy Score

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Story of My Life

by Lucy Score

Escape to the quaint Story Lake, a town that rivals Star’s Hollow in charm and shenanigans.

Lucy Score has an uncanny ability to write a small-town life that you’ll crave. From the rustic, cozy cabins settled along a lake to the dirt roads the FMCs bicycle through all the way to the cute boutique shops that just happen to have everything you need.

What Victoria Loved

VICTORIA’S RATING: 3.5/5

From the very first few pages you’re basically knee deep in a disaster and you’re just wading through the chaotic mess of Hazel’s life. Then the series of unfortunate events just keep snowballing. At some point you have to really hope for a culminating event just to give poor Hazel a break because no one can be that unlucky. 

And then we do get that break with the world’s funniest, most unfortunate meet cute… or meet crash? Yes, not quite a break but a literal crash as our city girl makes her way to the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania that immediately feels like Bluebell, Alabama from Hart of Dixie — what a gem of a show!

The town hates her when she rolls into town. They think she committed bird slaughter, which is as ridiculous as it sounds (side note: I don’t think I’ve ever met a bald eagle with more character). But the quick, witty banter immediately made this small-town romance feel like Stars Hollow. Only further emphasized by the unique mayor, town meetings and overall hullabaloo, the town meetings, the barbershop group (instead of the troubadour)…

My personal favorite oddity a la Story Lake: The potato walk which is “a legal discipline that’s been on the books for nearly two hundred years. The guilty are marched around the park while townsfolk throw potatoes at them.” Literally, how does Lucy come up with this? Potato, potato (IYKYK).

Honestly, Story of My Life is what I imagined when I moved to a small, middle of nowhere town. Nosy neighbors, a grumpy lumberjack (jk I have the sweetest husband who will build me the homestead of my dreams even if he isn’t a grumpy lumberjack-esque man), a quaint downtown area, random town events and festivals that rally the crowd, and overly involved townsfolk who need to share their every thought and opinion during town meetings about needlessly small things… and while I didn’t quite get that, visiting Story Lake through Hazel and Cam was a great consolation. I’m looking forward to visiting this town again in the future!! And hopefully with Gage and Zoey’s story!! 

Pick up a copy of Story of My Life (Amazon) and read with me!

Favorite Scene

“First of all, I’m not skipping anywhere. Second, life’s uncertain. Have sex first.”

“An interesting life philosophy. I bet you can’t skip.”

- STORY OF MY LIFE by Lucy Score

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Until the next chapter!

xo, Victoria

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