kqjeske 's review for:

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

4.0

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Ani joins the protaganists of Her, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and others in the modern trend to tell stories with unlikable female narrators. But while we only get an inkling of what has occurred to make Amy in Gone Girl and Rachel in The Girl on the Train "unlikable," we get a pretty full idea of how Ani ended up striving and clawing to establish herself at the top of the social ladder as this story opens. Although, not a feminist masterpiece, we see very clearly the interactions of gender expectations mixed with class consciousness among the elites and how these forces turn TiFani into Ani. Read this and think.