The Good Luck of Right Now

Short Review: 2 stars is probably too harsh. It was more of a 2.5 star book. The Good Luck of Right Now is about a 38 year old man (maybe on the Autism spectrum?) who learns to cope with his Mother's death by writing letters to Richard Gere. There is also a bipolar priest, a man obsessed with cats that can't say help but use the word F**k at least once in every sentence (usually twice) and his sister that thinks she was kidnapped by aliens.

Once all of the characters are introduced, the story gets much better. But still the plot is weak and the big reveal was clear from long before you get there.

Maybe I was just thrown by the beginning of the book, where it feels like Quick is actually making fun of Bartholomew. I really almost stopped reading a couple times in the first 100 or so pages. I am not disappointed that I kept reading because the book did get better. But the two other books of Quick's that I have read are so much better than this one.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/good-luck/