I will admittedly read pretty much anything that Chuck Tingle writes – especially his horror novels – but when I saw the cover of this one I was extra excited, because look at it. I mean just look at it!
Thanks to the author as well as Tor for the review copy!
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it’s not always good.
Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.
When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he’s investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossibly—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it’s Vera’s last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.
Because what’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying there, and she’s the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.
Y’all, the first couple chapters of this book are BONKERS.
Lucky Day is the story of Vera, who is a statistics and probability professor who is having a nice brunch with her girlfriend, some friends, and her mom, when all of a sudden… well… just… all of a sudden.
They called it the Low Probability Event – the day that eight million people across the world died in the most bizarre and unbelievable ways, from being attacked by a chimpanzee with a typewriter, to being strangled by balloon ropes. Four years later, Vera is living off cheap ramen and her survivor benefits when Agent Layne shows up at her door and says that he needs her to help prove that a casino with impossible luck is connected to what happened and that it is going to happen again if they don’t figure it out.
This book is shenanigans from the beginning to the end and honestly I couldn’t put it down. This might be my favorite of Chuck Tingle’s books thus far! There’s something to be said about reading a book like this where the events within defy probability and it still makes sense as a plot.
The audiobook is narrated by Mara Wilson and I think it might just make it into my audiobook rotation just based on my wanting to hear Matilda read me this anthropomorphic shenanigan of a book.
This was a short thrill ride. I can’t see what this man thinks of next! 5/5 stars!~
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Great review! That cover is awesome. I cant wait to read this book, I’m one month away from the library.
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