Lucky Day

By: Chuck Tingle

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

“Mara Wilson's sober narration style and consistent pacing create an amusing juxtaposition with the unlucky events that unfold.” — AudioFile

“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death

Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.

When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossibly—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.

Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.

"Wilson narrates with emotional depth, conveying all of Rose's intelligence, inquisitiveness, and fear as she's hunted by otherworldly beings." —AudioFile on Camp Damascus

Also by Chuck Tingle:
Bury Your Gays
Camp Damascus
Straight

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

Who chose this narrator

I was completely thrown off by the narrator. Their tone, cadence and affectation were more appropriate for a romance or erotic tome. Not horror. Very unsettling

chuck tingle does it again

another smart horror novel from everyone's favorite erotica author. delightfully absurd and terrifyingly real. fully encompasses one of his core beliefs: it is a miracle to be alive, and alive with each other

Unique Premise

The narrator sounds like AI, and it makes the main character only more unlikable than she already is. For as intelligent as she’s supposed to be, shes also willfully obtuse. None of what is happening in the book is normal. She also refers to “paranormal events”, and creatures making “eldritch” noises, yet when asked in the last quarter of the book whether or not she believes in alien life, she says no? Parts of the book involving the main characters reflections like that bothered me, and yet theres no denying its an entertaining premise with plenty of gore for physical horror enthusiasts.

Love to Tingle

I love Chuck, but I have to say, this is his weakest performance yet. The sorry is bleak throughout and it honestly makes you wonder "Are you okay, bud?" when you think about the author. It's well written, the story makes sense, but it's so grim and depressing that you really can't find the funny parts. The narrator (who is maybe the same one from Camp Damascus?) gave a really dry matter-of-fact delivery that honestly made her sound exactly like the same person from that audio book, rather than a new unique character in this one. Hyper-intelligent lesbian savant that is the only one that can see the truth and solve everyone's problems to destroy the big bad. That's great, but you've done it before, Chuck. Give us someone new and give us someone with emotion in their voice to narrate. This woman was so boring, but also, so was her character.

Overall, I love Chuck and his writing. I love how he portrays queer characters and queer narratives, but this was a slog compared to Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays. I won't recommend this one to new fans of his.

I love Chuck Tingle

Everything about this book is perfect to me. Even the stuff that would normally creep me out (hello creepy crawlies), I don’t even care it just works. The emotions those moments evoke in me fit perfect with the vibe of the book. I don’t know how he packed so much story, heart, and understanding into a book under 230 pages but he crushed it. The audiobook narration is perfect and truly made me feel every part of this lucky day ride.