Seven Years Awesome Luck

by Shawna Canon

Seven years ago, Trick’s mother made a deal with a witch. In exchange for saving his little brother’s life, the witch would turn Trick into a cat and he’d become her familiar. Now, the witch is dead and Trick is human again. And he hates it.

Denneka isn’t looking forward to eighth grade. Of course, since she has no friends and gets bullied at school, she never looks forward to any new school year. But this time it’s different. This year, there’s a very strange new boy who keeps hanging around her for some reason. He’s super cute, and even though he doesn’t talk much, he seems to like her. But he also chases birds and sits in boxes and talks about seeing their missing teacher in a grave.

But then Trick disappears, and a black kitten shows up on Denneka’s doorstep. She knows she should find its owner, but it reminds her of her missing maybe-friend, so she takes it in. As time passes with no sign of Trick, she fears she’ll never see him again—until she wakes up one morning to find him naked in her bed, claiming to have been there all along and confused about why she’s upset.

It turns out there are other witches in the world, and some of them are pure trickster.

Seven Years Awesome Luck is a stand-alone, slice of life, contemporary fantasy recommended for teens and up.

557 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2019

About the author

I write about unusual characters, unusual situations, and unusual relationships. Pretty much all of my stories have at least one of those, maybe two, but probably not all three at once. A vampire working in a coffee shop; a couple of average American twenty-somethings entering into a marriage of convenience; a girl finding out her perfectly normal dad slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people that one time . . . You get the idea. That’s why most of what I write is fantasy (it’s very easy to get unusual characters and situations in fantasy), but not all of it is.

If you’re looking for something a little bit different, a little bit odd, with awkward moments and snarky humor and adorkable characters who are sometimes sexy (and sexy characters who are sometimes adorkable), stories where times may get very dark indeed but only because that happy ending has to be earned . . . then I hope you’ll try out my stories.

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was more than I could have ever dared hope to get out of it! I loved it!

[BookInIt · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️
What a quirky little hidden gem!

This was a thoroughly enjoyable paranormal story that wades into several other genres with great results.

Mainly it tells the coming-of-age story of a young boy who was turned into a cat to be a witches familiar for 7 years, what happens when he returns to his family at 13 and meets another teenager trying to survive the pitfalls of growing into adulthood, which is hard enough for regular humans.

The story is intriguing as we are plunged into crime procedural, mystery, comedy, family drama and countless ethical quagmires with a cast of characters including family, friends, enemies, bullies, morally gray and downright evil. Sometimes one person can be many of those things.

This isn’t a kids story and some characters are not easy to like, especially one of the MMC so beware of triggers. This story contains quite a lot of bullying and by kids and adults, and discusses slavery, grooming and the possibility of SA in the context of witches having a familiar and taking control of the person’s mind/free will.

Ultimately it was a memorable story that steps outside the bounds of the usual paranormal tropes.

[Becky Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cats alive

I loved this book. It was sweet, funny, emotional and hard to put down. This book has a lot of twists and turns. I hated it to end. Trick had the misfortune to be turned into a kitten. By a witch at the age of 6. But no sweat he loves being a cat. When he turns back into a human he has a lot to adjust to. Read it you will love it.

[Ralitsa Vasileva · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5 ⭐

Nice and easy to follow story. Very teen but it was good between heavy books.

I can recommend if you need something more relaxing.

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this book 🥰

[Aura Nizharu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a sweet surprise for someone who have lost all faith in modern no-grade fiction.

It was a really nostalgic read, a slow burn, slice of life, low fantasy, multilayered plot, wholesome and cozy.

I usually don't like the plot that this book present, never liked it, but the use of fantasy to ease the themes makes them really palatable.

The story is a drama about interpersonal relatioships, the people you choose and the people that choose you and how lies when run deep can destroy entire families, and of redemption.

The characters are fun to read, and while the kids are amusing to read, the adults stole completely the show, they're fantastic, all of the characters are but in my opinion, the adults arcs are better written.

Is a very refreshing read, for nostalgic, tired and lovers of some good old style urban fantasy, when the genre was children's literature that adult could enjoy - and I think that this books is for adults more than children - instead of... porn.