I was EXTREMELY nervous following how amazing the first novel was 'The Good Luck Girls' I just couldn't see how Charlotte could top that one... But then she did! It was so much more! So powerful, The world building and the characters are so good, I felt like I was living inside that world once again.

I don't know if there will be another book but whatever Charlotte writes I'll will be buying it INSTANTLY! A new favourite author.

I was so looking forward to this sequel after thoroughly enjoying Book 1, The Good Luck Girls. Sadly, it did not quite hit the spot for me.
Do not get me wrong, this book was still brilliant and I loved being back with Aster, Clem, Violet, Mallow and Tamsay. They are absolutely fantastic characters. I love that "found-family" trope continued in this novel, with us needing new characters such as Raven who becomes an integral part of the "family".

The writing style of the book is really easy to follow but I found the book quite slow in the middle. I started the book in September 2021, put it down and struggled to want to pick it back up. Saying that, when I did and pushed through the middle 50-60 pages or so, the pace picked back up and I was hooked, wanting to see how the events would play out.

Overall, I enjoyed this conclusion to the Good Luck Girls series (I think conclusion although has left it open for more...) and I would recommend it to anyone seeking a YA fantasy.

I really enjoyed this sequel to The Good Luck Girls. It has great character development and I loved the interactions between the girls. The addition of Raven was a light hearted brightness needed in a book of hard topics, while the strong sister bond between the other girls was as solid as the first book. I loved the amount of sapphic love in this book, and the inclusion of different type of women hurt by this world. This is a very unique and inventive world that has been built to showcase today’s real life issues in an action packed and interesting way.

A big thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this review copy!

The Sisters of Reckoning is the sequel to The Good Luck Girls, and what a powerful sequel it was!

It was such a strong plot. I loved the world building, and didn’t think the author could top the first book. How very wrong I was!

I think I loved Derrick the most. I loved seeing his character grow, and thought out of all of the characters, his definitely resonated more with me.

This series is so good, and if you haven’t read it yet, then I urge you to do so. You won’t be disappointed!

Full review available on my blog on 13th September 2021.

The Sisters of Reckoning is the sequel to THE GOOD LUCK GIRLS, an LGBT+ dystopia about a group of girls who escaped the ‘welcome house’ that they’d been sold to as children – a brothel that brands the girls as children with a mark that cannot be hidden. In the first book, they are forced to flee after Clementine accidentally murders the man who visits in her first night as a sundown girl. The Sisters of Reckoning continues on from the end of The Good Luck Girls, where Clementine and the rest of the group have found freedom in neighbouring Ferron, while Aster has remained behind to help more girls escape Arketta one at a time.

I really liked the way that this book built on the first one. In The Good Luck Girls we see a small group in desperate straits, fighting any way that they can for their personal freedom, whereas in The Sisters of Reckoning, they’re taking on systemic issues in Arketta on a huge scale. This isn’t your standard YA overthrow-the-system story. Charlotte Nicole Davis allows her characters to be dark and traumatised and lets them wreak the revenge they deserve. They make choices that are hard, that are awful in some cases, but that they have to make for any change to take place. That doesn’t mean these girls aren’t fiercely moralistic, they are doing the right thing at every opportunity, but the right thing isn’t always the easy thing or the good thing.

One of my favourite facets to this book was Aster’s struggle with her PTSD and sexuality. She’s still suffering PTSD from her time in the welcome house, and on top of that she’s trying to come to terms with her attraction to men and women and how she feels about it. I really loved the way that Charlotte Nicole Davis handled this, and how Aster had to process her attraction alongside her trauma as well as separating it – Aster definitely isn’t the only woman who fears that her same-sex attraction could be caused by her trauma, and this book handles it sensitively.

I really enjoyed the way that this book ended. Without getting into spoiler territory, we got to see the interpersonal conflict which was far more important for our characters than the large scale ‘rebellion’ type scenes I’m used to from YA, and it left me feeling satisfied with this duology as a whole. While I wouldn’t mind reading more from this world, I also can’t wait to see what Charlotte Nicole Davis comes out with next.