Slick's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 Wow, Cindi Madsen just popped me right out of my book reading slump with Getting Lucky Number Seven! Yes this falls under the New Adult genre as these characters are in college but they are more mature than normal college students for different reasons. Best friends since they were assigned each other as lab partners shy, bookworm, kind of nerdy Lyla is partnered with self assured, sexy, hockey star Beck, but as the year goes on and after a particularly awful group date Lyla decides she wants to really experience college life and makes a "college bucket list" and enlists Beck to help her with some of them. I really love friends to lovers stories and this one is absolutely perfect and I just can't keep the smile off my face as I think about everything these two went through together. 
 I really don't want to spoil this book so I'm not going to share the things on Lyla's bucket list but I will say some are tame, some are exploratory, and some are really interesting for someone who has really never lived life. Beck is great at encouraging Lyla and even being her "wingman" for a few but as he begins to see another side of Lyla things between them change and become more. 
 I loved watching the metamorphosis of Lyla; not that she wasn't great all along just a little socially awkward but as her confidence built we really began to see Lyla's inner light and beauty shine and everyone around her began to take notice especially Beck. 
 The more Beck was around Lyla the more he shared about his life and while everyone thought of him as this laid back guy who is a fantastic hockey player people didn't know his history or what was expected of him when he turned 21. Beck has had a rough couple of years and as his birthday approaches the stress he's feeling is intensified and he begins to realize that Lyla is the only person he can be himself with and the one that makes him feel better about life in general. 
 They had an interesting relationship in that they truly were best friends and yes they had sex together but their sex life was totally separate from their friendship and in all honesty it worked for awhile but the more they confided in each other, the more their feelings changed and the lines blurred and things got messy when another blow about Beck's family came to light. 
 While there was some angst and a whole lot of inner dialog about each other especially before they began having sex (some of this quite hilarious), I found myself giggling more than frustrated like I do with a lot of New Adult books. Honestly these two had very good heads on their shoulders; they were both intelligent, had great communication skills, and best of all their friendship really meant the world to them both. 
 I really can't say enough good things about this book, these characters, and their story. Simply put Getting Lucky Number Seven was everything I want in a romance; fun, sexy, intelligent, and amazingly wonderful. 
 Review copy provided for an honest review.