Lucky Day - BookWyrm.World

Hardcover, 304 pages

English language

Published Aug. 12, 2025 by Tor Nightfire.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-39866-6

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, 8 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 …

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, 8 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 impossible—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...

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Jensi 🏴🚩 • he/him reviewed Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

Queer mathematician saves the world

5 stars

Two things beforehand: 1) I added CWs in a comment here. I wasn't prepared how extremely graphic Tingle describes deaths, and that there are so many. This applies mainly to the exposition. Also, CW for suicidal thoughts throughout the story. 2) As opposed to other reviews, I do not recommend this book if you are actively fighting existential dread. There is too much negativity going on before the story has its turning point.

... and that being said, it was a fantastic ride. I was reminded of this quote from Doctor Who: "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant." - If this resonates well with you, the book will probably, too.

Two things beforehand: 1) I added CWs in a comment here. I wasn't prepared how extremely graphic Tingle describes deaths, and that there are so many. This applies mainly to the exposition. Also, CW for suicidal thoughts throughout the story. 2) As opposed to other reviews, I do not recommend this book if you are actively fighting existential dread. There is too much negativity going on before the story has its turning point.

... and that being said, it was a fantastic ride. I was reminded of this quote from Doctor Who: "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant." - If this resonates well with you, the book will probably, too.