[New Post] ARC Review: The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden Mills


Title: The Kiss Lottery

Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Page count: 130

Published: February 11, 2025

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Second Chance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5



From bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a steamy novella about first love and second chances where a city girl returns home for a Valentine’s Day tradition…and the boy who broke her heart.

Roses are red, violets are blue—someone in Rose has feelings for you…

Yeah, bad ones. Everly Davis didn’t leave her tight-knit hometown on the best terms. It’s been ten years, but you don’t forget heartbreak like that. Then again, the anonymous invite to the annual Kiss Lottery in Rose, Tennessee, gives Everly content for her podcast. And she has a bone to pick with that old heartbreak anyway.

Beckett Whitfield has never left Rose—and he’s never forgotten Everly. He even named the villain in his latest bestseller after her. Turns out she’s not happy about that. Nothing about their reunion is particularly happy, and after the way they left things, what did he expect?

When the Kiss Lottery pairs them together, Everly and Beckett will have to confront old feelings that never went away and the secrets they never shared. But finally telling each other everything might be exactly what they’ve needed all along.



Everly gets a letter in the mail inviting her to a Valentines Day event in her hometown. After arriving her runs into her childhood best friend Beckett. Since the accident in high school, they grew apart and Everly moves to New York. Now that she has returned home, they can have the true ending they were supposed to have all those years ago, but the timing just wasn’t right for them. With this being a novella, I wanted to see more of them.



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