Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch: My Book Review

If you’re looking for the perfect holiday romance for St. Patrick’s Day, then look no further than Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch. She continues to dazzle with this fantasy holiday-themed romance in her Romance and Royals series and it’s a must-read for 2025. Check out my book review of Go Luck Yourself below to learn more.

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Go Luck Yourself Summary:

Someone has been stealing Christmas’s joy, and there’s only one clue to the culprit—a single shamrock. With Coal busy restructuring Christmas—and their dad now having a full midlife crisis in the Caribbean—Kris volunteers to investigate St. Patrick’s Day. His cover: an ambassador from Christmas to foster goodwill. What could go wrong?

Everything, it seems. Because Prince Lochlann Patrick, Crown Prince of St. Patrick’s Day, happens to be the mysterious student that Kris has been in a small war with at Cambridge.

They attempt to play nice for the tabloids, but Kris can’t get through one conversation without wanting to smash Loch’s face in—he’s infuriating, stubborn, loud, obstinate, hot—Wait—hot?

Kris might be in some trouble. Especially when it turns out that the mystery behind Christmas’s stolen magic isn’t as simple as an outright theft. But why would a Holiday that Christmas has never had contact with, one that’s always been the very basis of carefree, want to steal joy?

Can a spare prince even hope to unravel all this, or will Kris lose something way more valuable than his Holiday’s resources—like his heart?

Go Luck Yourself: My Review

Go Luck Yourself was one of my most anticipated new romantasy books of 2025 ever since I finished The Nightmare Before Kissmas and all I can say is that Sara Raasch better continue this series because it is so fresh and so wonderful – everything I never knew I needed in my romance book reading life!

Her words, her characters and the joy that just jumps off the pages are what made this book and the entire series a pure delight to read. I’ll happily supply a list of all holidays, including the most obscure, so she never runs out of inspiration for Royals and Romance! 😊

I loved the meet cute between the Prince of Christmas and the Prince of St. Patrick’s Day that sparked the beginnings of this fantastic enemies to lovers romance. It was hilarious how Kris just wanted to defend how he went through the appropriate channels to reserve his beloved study room and would not be kept from it.

From there I got total Red, White and Royal Blue vibes since Kris had to apologize and make nice with Lochlann in front of the press in the spirit of repairing “international” relations when behind the scenes they masked their attraction with incessant teasing and pestering one another. I loved it!

In this romance, Raasch once again created the best characters with really interesting internal struggles. Kris was “the spare” who fell into a people-pleasing role and still struggled with the repercussions of his mother’s leaving him as a young kid. I liked how he slowly found his way back to his passions and allowed himself to put his own joy first.

Loch was everything I hoped for in the Irishman. How Raasch wrote his brogue so that it just jumped off the page as if I was hearing him in my ear was incredible. He was totally the grump to Kris’ sunshine that was dealing with his own inadequacies.

I’m really hoping we get Iris’ story next with a certain someone. My fingers are crossed until we get that announcement.

If you’re looking for a queer romance that is the perfect enemies to lovers story that weaves in magic, creative arts, family struggles and amazing sibling relationships then you’ll enjoy this book!

*Thank you to Bramble for the advanced reader copy. All opinions are my own.

More From Sara Raasch:

• The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

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