Maddie’s not impulsive. She’s all about hard work and planning ahead. But one night, on a whim, she buys a lottery ticket. And then, to her astonishment—
She wins!
In a flash, Maddie’s life is unrecognizable. No more stressing about college scholarships. Suddenly, she’s talking about renting a yacht. And being in the spotlight at school is fun…until rumors start flying, and random people ask her for loans. Now Maddie isn’t sure who she can trust.
Except for Seth Nguyen, her funny, charming coworker at the local zoo. Seth doesn’t seem aware of Maddie’s big news. And, for some reason, she doesn’t want to tell him. But what will happen if he learns her secret?
Published: 25th July 2017
Publisher: Scholastic
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Series or Stand-Alone: Stand-Alone
Source: Library
MY REVIEW
Unfortunately, this is one of those books that is going to fall into the 'this is just not for me'. Although it was fun and easy to read, this story had a lot of aspects that I didn't believe in or aspects that could have happened but didn't. You have Maddie who is in school, so must be a teenager, who wins the lottery. Instead of her parents helping her or a guardian appointed until she is an adult or finished school etc she is just left to sort out her own finances. The money is just handed over, no questions asked. As a response to that, she makes very silly decisions such as investing in an uncle's investment idea, an uncle she didn't know exist until she had the money.
The very reason she bought the lottery ticket in the first place was because it was her birthday and none of her friends turned up or let her know they weren't coming. After winning, there was a little mention of why they didn't turn up but it was just dismissed as if it didn't matter. If that had happened to me, it would have upset me a lot more than that.
There's also the character of Seth who Maddie first meets when she goes out to buy her lottery ticket. There was such potential that Maddie and Seth could have made the story very interesting but for me there was not enough of that story to be able to get invested in the relationship.
Very disappointed by this one but I did enjoy the writing style and am planning to pick up more by this author.
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