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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Loveable characters:
No
I listened to the audiobook on @LibroFm. I accidentally watched the movie before so I knew what was coming. Had I not, this would have been more intense for me. Knoll created the theme from a devastating, personal experience. However, Ani, the main character is very unlikable. I found her too implausible and extremely shallow. Worth the read though!
Although this book didn't leave me with a happy, warm feeling inside. This was a good book! Dark and intense. A lot of victim blaming which is not something that is unheard of but the story, and the "What I know" (found after the acknowledgements) were powerful.
I think this book suffered for me because I am a little tired of the thriller with an unlikable main character genre. The other unfortunate part of the timing of this book is how it seemed to coincide with some difficult current events that we're experiencing. The whole story does redeem itself at the end. It just didn't hit it out of the park for me.
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll tells the story of Ani FaNelli, a successful New York writer at a women's magazine, engaged to successful financier, Luke. But, Ani is really TifAni and she has a past she's been running from since the day she graduated from high school. At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to relate to Ani because of the judgements of other women she threw around and the New York rat race she was so obsessed with, but she did have moments of humanity that I really loved. And, then as her layers started to peel away we learned her story and the secrets she was hiding ***spoilers*** including having been gang raped, a follow up attack by one of the boys a few weeks later, and a school massacre where her tangled high school webs cast a shadow on her reputation and called into question her involvement. I thought Knoll had some incredible insights on life after rape. And, also the messy feelings of having been friends with and liked a person who committed a serious atrocity. I ended up really enjoying this book, so if you can get past the first quarter of the book you will be roped in for a haunting walk through a dark and troubled past.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I don't want to be mean, but this book is rubbish. The sentence structures were confusing, I don't know how may sections I had to re-read and still barely understood them. I wonder what this book set out to be about, it covers rape, a high school shooting, an insecure, superficial woman marrying for the wrong reasons, but just scratches the surface of all these issues. Waste of time.
It was slow at the beginning but then, it was very interesting the way the past and the future chapters were connecting. I didn’t like the end, specially and it was a little boring, and the main character was (on some chapters) insufferable.
i bought this book bc it was compared to gone girl which i still need to read the book, but thoroughly enjoyed the movie. ANYWAY - i do not get gone girl vibes from this at all & didn’t love the characters. it was harder for me to get into
I was going to give the book 3 stars, as it is a solid book, but I didn’t LOVE LOVE it. However the characters felt so real that I kept having to stop myself to look them up on the internet to see “where are they now”, so I thought that warranted an additional star.