Kylie Scott's The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck is a startling and spicy rom-com that crackles with a touch of magic. Lilah Goodluck has no reason to suspect her life is anything but a happy one, until she pulls a psychic from the path of a speeding car. "It would seem you're owed something," Good Witch Willow says with gratitude, rewarding Lilah with five life-changing predictions--one of them life-ending: Lilah has eight days before her heart stops. She quickly laughs off the unasked-for predictions, especially her just-over-a-week death knell, but cannot ignore them either, given that, one by one, everything the psychic tells her comes true.
The winning lottery ticket numbers are great, but the cheating boyfriend and failure to secure a job promotion are not. And what are the odds her soul mate is, indeed, that gorgeous bastard son of a king? The harsh reality of Lilah's situation comes into abrupt, hard focus as the days tick down to her last. Readers watch the heroine take a deep dive into the aching clarity of finally finding true love while having only days to live.
Scott (End of Story) successfully enchants her story beyond the usual romantic comedy by fusing witty banter with a paranormal plot, which adds a certain believable freshness to the genre. It doesn't take a psychic to predict readers will devour this novel in a single sitting. --Paul Dinh-McCrillis, freelance reviewer