glaseramy 's review for:

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

3.0

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I would have given this book 2.5 stars if I had the chance. It was on the "lucky day" shelf at my library and had a free weekend so I thought I could read this book within a week. The main character is very unlikable and I almost gave up early on because of her bitchiness, but with every other chapter being a flashback, I was curious as to her "big secret." Something pivotal is mentioned, and I thought "that's the big secret?" Then a major thing happens and you can't put the book down because you want to know what happens. But then NOTHING MAJOR HAPPENS. Yes, it was a very traumatic experience that I would wish upon no one, but I was still unsure of why/how everyone knew her name being she was rather upfront about bad experience #1 and her non-involvement with bad experience #2. There was too much going on, and once you find out all the bad things that happened to her in high school, it was very meh. Too many things that never came to fruition or were a red herring (that frankly would have been more interesting than what did happen). It could have used more work to be a more effective and satisfying novel in the end, but with that being said, I still couldn't put it down.