Lucky in Lace

De: Melissa Brayden

Narrado por: Lula Larkin

Juliette Jennings lives her life like a tightly laced corset—not that she’d ever wear one. As a business owner of a stationery store, structure is her favorite. But when her best friend and her ex fall head over heels for each other, everything unravels and leaves her exposed. Even worse, a scandalous lingerie shop has moved in next door, and its tantalizing window displays will drive away her conservative customers. If only the owner would turn off the charm, Juliette is sure she could stop imagining her in nothing but the shop’s lacy best sellers.

Peyton Lane loves a clean slate. In fact, she desperately needs one after a series of bad choices. She also likes sexy things, and uptight Juliette next door would be a fun bow to untie. But when Peyton’s feelings enter new territory, she realizes the world might be scarier than she’d planned. Juliette has Peyton longing for forever on one hand and lacing up her running shoes with the other.

What’re a structured stationery store owner and a sexy lingerie peddler to do?

©2023 Melissa Brayden (P)2023 Bold Strokes Books Inc

Great story

Loved the story, great narration. Love Melissa Brayden. I do recommend, you won’t regret purchasing this book.

i never thought love scenes could get tedious

Melissa Braydan is one of my favorite lesbian authors. Her work is usually crisp, witty and well paced. i found this sappy, simpy and cliche. the characters we just not as well defined. The narrative spent so much time in the bedroom or with eyeroll worthy declarations of love and admiration that it got boring. There was cliche plot device drama, but at that point i wasn't even invested enough about the characters to care. i skipped through the last few chapters looking for some resolution to the drama and was sadly disappointed. it was just more sappy drivel at that point. i love long books. but this was just so much filler that it was not worth it.
im sorry, but i want more from a story than 2 women mooning over each other and getting busy, plot please 🙏.

Lucky to Choose This Novel 😍

Melissa Brayden is not a romance novelist!!
She is a novelist who excels at Romance 💝

Before I get to the particulars, this “romance” novel, deals with so many important issues, the most important one here is the question, “When has does a person ever fully make amends for making a huge mistake?
Perhaps never 🥲🥲

This is a beautiful story, told with depth and pathos by a narrator ( Lula Larkin) who is slowly becoming one of my favorites 👌.
That is important because this is an important one, delivered expertly by an excellent and accomplished social author!

The two main characters, Juliette ( burdened with a personality that does not welcome change or disorder) and Payton (working so hard to compensate for the mistakes of her your) are definitely not your best bet for a passionate romance and happily ever after, but in the hands of our author, manage to find that opposites not only attract, but can combust.

But stressing the romance and “heat” angle here is shortchanging this story, because it is so much more, especially, about how mistakes made as a young person can, unless they are very special, can ruin the remains of their life.

In closing, “Lace” is filled with so many important emotions, and so much good hearted humor, that it is impossible to put down. I recommend it highly, and will continue to add more of Ms Brayden’s works to my audio library.

Libra

good but not great

This is not Melissa's best book. It is a good read but it wasn't great. I put it down multiple times. Typically when I read a Brayden book I can't put it down and would have listened to it multiple times by now. This book has forgettable characters and it feels like it wasn't fully developed. No real tear jerking moments. It just had too many holes.

Unconventional and Great!!!

One of the MCs isn’t what you would normally expect from a Ms Brayden book. It’s a bold choice that works really really well! I throughly enjoyed the book and all of the unique cast of characters. Give this book a listen, Lulu Larkin does a fantastic job, and don’t let the negative comments influence you,