Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll – 300 pages
Book Blurb:
Her perfect life is a perfect lie. As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret.
There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.
With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive xplores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that’s bigger than it first appears. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?
My Review: 3.5 stars
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The Luckiest Girl Alive, yet another book with the word Girl in its title that has much media marketing behind it. Is it just me, or does it seem that there’s been an inordinate amount of creepy good books, albeit great page turners about girls: Gone Girl, Girl On The Train and The Good Girl, in the past few years?
If the reader can read each one without the hype, that it will remind you of one of the others mentioned, I think you’ll have a better reading experience.
Now, let’s get to this book and its main protagonist! I hated the girl, then liked the girl, I went back to disgust for her and ended with an odd warmth toward her. That in itself, this ping-pong between love and hate, means the author did something right!
I’ll give you fair warning: this book has crude sexuality, manipulative emotional scarring, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, violence and a very small nugget of goodness. However, with out this, the book wouldn’t be the same and I personally think it was all necessary for the girl, TifAny, to come into her own person.
Fast paced with plenty of twists and turns will make this book a wonderful summer read.
Quotes I liked:
Taste, I had yet to learn, was the delicate balance between expensive and unassuming.”
-“It’s okay to be insufferable as long as you’re aware that you’re being insufferable. At least that’s how I justified it to myself.”
-“But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, and only it.”
“The more sacred a piece of information, the more desperate the gatekeeper is to reveal it, the harder you have to work to relieve her of the burden.”
“Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.”
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This book so annoyed me from the beginning that I stopped reading it, which I rarely do!
I give you full permission to stop. It was and odd book in which I was constantly waffling about my feelings for the main character.
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Happy Reading,
L
I too was really annoyed. I thought her overuse of trite metaphors pulled me out of the story so often that I began dreading every sentence that contained the word like. I’m astonished that so many people liked this book. When you become so aware of the writing that you are focused on the writing instead of the story, you can’t immerse yourself in the the characters or the story.
Completely see your points. Got a lot of hype around here…so odd!