Third Time’s the Charm (Blue Moon, #8.5) (2025)

Short, sweet, hilariously sexy and panty melting goodness melted into this delectable tale revisiting blue moon Town.
It encapsulates the travails of dating, sexing and hooking up during apocalyptic retrograde and quarantining together during the pandemic
I loved this cast of quirky characters
4 stars for counterfactual arguments

Kinda cute, mostly meh. This series still wins top prize at having my favorite fictional town/townsfolk.

A little bummed that Layla didn’t get her own book. I really liked the brief moment we get between her and Huck in The Mistletoe Kisser and was hyped for their story.

September 10, 2020
Here's A Puzzle...
Lucy Score Has Something In Mind...
Much Is Brewing In Her Writing Cave...

Her Latest Book Was A Huge Winner...
(Riley Thorn And The Dead Guy Next Door)
And She Just Revealed THERE IS MORE COMING!

Could This Questioning Title...
Be One Of The Soon To Be Entries...
We Will Have To Wait And See...

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For anyone looking for this book it’s on Lucy’s website. Just google ‘Lucy score third times the charm’. I looked all over for this book on amazon, kindle and some other free book websites for two days before I thought to do that. Adorable little in between story. Definitely need to read the others in my opinion as it helps know all the background. I would love to read more about this pair in the future hopefully. It was also nice to be able to relate and check in on all of blue moon.

This was a wonderful, unexpected gift from the author to her Blue Moon series fans. I can see where it would be hard to read if you’re unfamiliar with the series. It was written for fun to catch us all up on the town and how they’ve been handling the pandemic. If you’re a Blue Moon reader then you’ll most definitely love it.

3.5

If you love The Blue Moon Series, don’t miss this short story. It features lots of familiar characters coping with Covid 19 in Blue Moon.

A Novella of Layla Gunnarson (Sheriff's deputy) and Huckleberry Cullen (High School Guidance counselor) from "Holding onto the Chaos" and "The Fine Art of Faking it."

There is a lot of sexual tension and brief flashbacks to love scenes but zero love scenes. This story takes place after Layla and Eden Moody's friend Sammy's love story in "The Mistletoe Kisser."
Also it's plot happens in 2020 when COVID 19 runs it's course through Blue Moon, NY. All the beloved characters from the Blue Moon series make appearances.

Cute story. Freebie from the Author about life in Blue Moon during Covid19 quarantine.

NOTE:You should have previously read the whole Blue Moon Series before reading Third time’s the charm!!

Loving the Blue Moon community and all their wild hijinks, making the COVID-19 scare into a side character ruined it for me. It's bad enough we have to deal with all this mandated jazz in real life. I read to escape, not be reminded of the insanity around me.

I don't know when the brooding "bad" guy stopped being attractive to me and the Labrador good guy started making me a flustered mess, but... I can't say I'm mad about it.
I'd climb Huck Cullen (I can't call him Huckleberry, don't make me) like a goddamn tree and fashion myself some treehouse real estate so I'd never have to leave.

Ps. I knew the exact moment kickass women became my thing:

Super cute short story on Blue Moon's Layla and Huck. I loved how Lucy tied them back to the apocalypse events and captured their relationship overall. Seeing the characters and the community during COVID-19 was a sweet bonus to Blue Moon.

And, being a fan of Lucy's books in general, I loved seeing Emily and Derek in there too! 🥰 Oh the webs we weave. Emily's book was brilliant as well and I loved that series so seeing her company in the Blue Moon short story made me smile.

I would have liked more with Layla and Huck though too. I just love the zany world of blue moon in general. 💙

This book should not be listed as 6.5 as the couple from book 8 is in it. Also, if the cosmic event happened 10.31.2018, per the flashback, how in the world are Emma and Eva still pregnant if the pandemic is 2020(maybe they were pregnant again, at the same time, again. But it made it seem like it was still their first pregnancies)? Or did the author switch the pandemic to 2019??
Layla was annoying. I’m glad this wasn’t a full length book with her as the main character.

This was a nice short story. It was neat to have a peak into how Blue Moon handled the beginning of the pandemic. And even though, 2.5 years in, this pandemic isn’t actually over yet, I was able to read this and not feel terrible remembering the start of the pandemic. Progress, ha. Anyway. Of course I would have loved a full book about Layla, but this was great and the mind can imagine the rest.

Very cute Novella! I love the references to all of the other Bluemoon characters! Also… How is it possible that I just finished “the price of Scandal” which was written a few years back, but those characters are also referenced in this tiny story! The story is a marker for the pandemic, and a nod toward all of the first responders who helped!

Okay I wasn’t sure I was going to like this. Covid in books is something I generally like to avoid but this was cute! It had everyone in the town coming together to once again prove Blue Moon is the best community to live in and it featured a nice little character crossover from one of Score’s unrelated books (by mention only) and I LOVE when authors do that.

I'm not a fan of covid/quarantine books, because we're living it, but I couldn't pass up a Blue Moon story. I hope there are more books coming because I want to see more of these two, and let's be honest, more of everything Blue Moon

Me ha parecido mono lo de ver cómo pasan la pandemia en blue Moon y como se ayudan unos a otros, pero me hubiera gustado que la historia de Huck y Layla fuera un libro. Me parece que había más chicha que sacar.

Cute little quarantine read. I didn’t know that I needed/wanted to know more about Layla and her escapades but tbh, this was exactly what I needed. It gave me just enough to know more about her and gave her HEA just enough time to win us over.

Recommend reading during your Blue Moon journey!

What a cute lil novella! I haven’t read anything so far which talks about romance during COVID - combining that with a forced proximity trope was such a brilliant concept 🤌🤌

Simple, sweet and straight to the point! Would love to read more from the Blue Moon series 🫶

Not recommended for those who are not familiar with Blue Moon series.
Too many characters for such a short form, crazy plot but it all doesn't make an interesting story.

A super fun short story about life in Blue Moon during Covid 19.
All the residents of Blue Moon are here and as much fun as ever. Even Clementine!

Loved getting a chance to glimps back in on the blue moon characters! Never a dull moment with them 😀

Loved this short story! Blue Moon is coping with Covid-19. I would read all the books as this could contain spoilers if not.

This was so much fun

Cute short story.

I love the Blue Moon community. It’s always so much fun to visit with the residents and find out what shenanigans they’re coming up with!

Freebie from the author but you need to know this series.
Enjoyable but Layla being so anti relationship but keep having sex with Huck was a bit eye rolling.

Blue Moon is my favorite & getting to see it through the lens of current events is charming! Loved this story!

Cute story for our current times.