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marginsofmarisa 's review for:
Genuine Fraud
by E. Lockhart
I think this might be the biggest let down of all time. I’m seriously getting angry thinking about how disappointing this book was.
Like most people, I was a big fan of We Were Liars and figured this book would be different, but still have the things I loved about E. Lockhart’s writing. Wrong!
The characters had no depth. It seems like she put the bare minimum into writing them to give them enough personality to complete the story but they’re so fake deep and not realistic at all. I didn’t relate to a single character or even enjoy reading about them.
Don’t even get me started on that wacky timeline. The book opens with the ending and then works its way backwards so you understand what’s happening. Except this made the book so confusing. I completely misunderstood all of the characters and didn’t connect the earlier bits to the parts that came later in the book. Seemed like two different stories!
The book is so short yet I wasted almost a month trying to read it because it was so boring. I thought the ending might justify the lack of clarity throughout the book but it didn’t do that at all! It was supposed to be a big twist but the whole thing was so obvious and not in the slightest bit entertaining. Overall, this was the biggest disappointment and waste of time I have ever experienced while reading a book. I 100% stand by my claim that you shouldn’t read this book.
Like most people, I was a big fan of We Were Liars and figured this book would be different, but still have the things I loved about E. Lockhart’s writing. Wrong!
The characters had no depth. It seems like she put the bare minimum into writing them to give them enough personality to complete the story but they’re so fake deep and not realistic at all. I didn’t relate to a single character or even enjoy reading about them.
Don’t even get me started on that wacky timeline. The book opens with the ending and then works its way backwards so you understand what’s happening. Except this made the book so confusing. I completely misunderstood all of the characters and didn’t connect the earlier bits to the parts that came later in the book. Seemed like two different stories!
The book is so short yet I wasted almost a month trying to read it because it was so boring. I thought the ending might justify the lack of clarity throughout the book but it didn’t do that at all! It was supposed to be a big twist but the whole thing was so obvious and not in the slightest bit entertaining. Overall, this was the biggest disappointment and waste of time I have ever experienced while reading a book. I 100% stand by my claim that you shouldn’t read this book.