A Year of Mr. Lucky

by Meg Weber

Hi, I'm Meg.
I'm a highly freckled, ethical slut seeking medium-commitment fun. I like to play (but not necessarily lose at) word games. The following bits from your profile caught my attention: exciting spankings, handcuffs, and your writerly love of books.

When Meg Weber - a recently divorced, queer, single parent - realizes she's ready to date again, she comes across the profile of Mr. Lucky; a smart dominant with similar interests. But not all goes as planned.

In her memoir, A Year Of Mr. Lucky, Meg takes us through her journey of erotic encounters, pain and pleasure, explorations of self-worth, submission, yearning, and healing.

“Owning me was written into the game, but not like this. Not a splintered heart and brittle distance. Not unmet longing. I wasn’t supposed to fall in love.”

Genres: Memoir, LGBT

323 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 8, 2021

Reviews

[Amy Bond · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely stunning book

The writing in this book is sexy, compelling and engages with a depth not often seen in books about romantic relationships. The author does an amazing job of weaving in email exchanges to drive the narrative of the relationship between her and Mr.Lucky unfolding. The processing of her heartbreak is beautiful and so relatable. I binged this book in a day.

[Abby Braithwaite · Rating 5 out of 5]

Raw and riveting read about grief, love and relationship. Edgy sexy and real. Beautifully written and engaging.

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This memoir surprised me. Mostly epistolary in nature, the reader comes to understand Weber’s point of view through raw, honest emails. Weber doesn’t shy away from the gritty details of complicated, sexual relationships or the complex layers of her needs, wants, and feelings. Love and sex are messy, and Weber does a great job of reminding us of that. But they’re rewarding, too, especially when we face our fears, whatever they may be, and acknowledge what works and what doesn’t.

[Lacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's been a while since I read a book in less than a week. I enjoyed going on the journey of this relationship and seeing the depths of desire, longing, grief, and healing that are often hard to access in day to day life. The ending was incredibly powerful and will stick with me for quite a while.

[Shari · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I always feel like too much, except when I'm afraid I'm not enough."

This is a beautifully honest memoir about being human, vulnerable, and strong -- I believe that telling the truth about our own lives is some of the most important work we can do, and Meg Weber does this with fierce courage.

[Christopher Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like all good memoirs, Meg Weber's debut is bracingly honest, revelatory, and deeply personal. It is also in turns kinky, steamy, maddening, and uncomfortable. In short chapters and a march of sentences that are simple but evocative, Weber explores family, loneliness, grief, desire, frustration, heartbreak, and joy. The book reproduces large chunks of email correspondence between Weber and the titular Mr. Lucky, and in these exchanges Weber is frank and often very funny. Hers is an active mind seeking a worthy partner for activities both sexual and emotional. We root for her to find what she is looking for, and learn so much from her search.

[Laura Donovan · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a whirlwind memoir about complicated feelings and expectations within play relationships. I’m in a vanilla monogamous marriage (boring!), but I don’t think you need to have a kink lifestyle to relate to this book, which is about wanting more from people than they can give us.

Still raw from her recent divorce, Meg explores play with a charming, handsome man she calls Mr. Lucky. She reveals their many email exchanges that ultimately speak to the one-sided nature of their dynamic. He’s the dominant and she’s the sub, and this plays out in their communications outside the confines of their play space as well. Meg finds herself wanting more from him, and he really leads her on. I think this memoir is so relatable because we have all experienced unrequited love in some form or another, and Meg’s story goes to show it can even happen within the structured world of play. Even though Meg and Mr. Lucky go to great lengths to set boundaries and communicate during and after meetings, things still get messy.

It’s a relatable, heartbreaking story about wanting more from someone who can only offer so much emotionally. Again, it’s a universal experience that people outside the world of kink can identity with. I was also interested in her detailed depictions of the play world. You’re not going to learn anything about that from FIFTY SHADES, but you will from Meg’s book.

[Susanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This intriguing memoir is a wild ride! It begins by playing out in the world of kink as the narrator seeks adventure and solace in the wake of the breakup of her marriage. Much of the memoir follows an epistolary format, explicitly (in all senses of the word) centered on her relationship with the man she refers to here as Mr. Lucky. When, despite their “no strings attached” agreement, things get messy, the narrator opens up more to us, the reader, sharing more of her internal reflections and more about what’s happening in her life to create, accelerate and modify the dynamic with Mr. Lucky. Ultimately, it was not only an adventure in learning more about kink from the submissive point of view, but a thought-provoking journey through trauma and recovery that offered much food for thought about my own relationship to those areas of my life.

[Wendy Fontaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this book would have worked better for me if it had mentioned in the beginning how a devastating divorce brought the narrator to the circumstances of needing Mr. Lucky in the first place. I admit this world of submission is new to me, but I kept asking why someone would allow another person to make her feel this desperate, this lonely, this needy. Telling me about the pain of divorce sooner might have helped me to understand more deeply.