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The Auspicious Troubles Of Chance (2012)

by Charlie Cochet(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1613725574 (ISBN13: 9781613725573)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

The Auspicious Troubles of Love

review 1: Chance is alone in the world and has suffered great tragedy. The home he thought he had has been lost and he spirals down. With not much left he finds himself with the foreign legion and eventually finds his way to a dynamic commandant, Jacky. Jacky and his band of "brats", as Chance calls them, bring Chance around. I loved Chance and his attempt to be "hard boiled" and keep everyone away and I loved how Jacky and his crew got to him. By the end Chance is just the crazy awesome guy that Jacky deserves. This is a different historical and well worth the time. I loved the voices of the characters.
review 2: This book was an unexpected pleasure. I didn't pay the blurb much attention, I just thought the title was cute and so I read with little idea of what I ... morewas getting into. It's a period piece, set in the 1920s and it's also written in the first person; these two things combine to make the writing a bit clunky at first, but once you get into it, all is forgiven and some of it is actually quite funny. The beginning was a bit rushed (as was the ending - so minus a star for that), but the middle bit was golden and I really wish there was more of it. It's about Chance, a beautiful and troubled young man who hares off to join the French Foreign Legion (is there a book involving the Legion that I haven't liked? I'm yet to meet it) and meets the immensely likable Jacky, his commandant and eventual lover. There isn't really a plot, it's more of a sort of self-discovery story. The secondary characters are interesting and the North African setting is quite cool (though under-realised). I just really enjoyed the the two main characters together. Am I being overly hopeful in wanting a sequel? less

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