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jc3smama 's review for:
Luckiest Girl Alive
by Jessica Knoll
I'm still reading this book, about 50% finished. I decided to read it because I need something mind numbingly easy to read right now during a long hospital stay with my son. The reviews were mixed, but again I decided to dive in given it's pretty easy reading.
The reviews describing Ani as unlikeable, annoying, shallow are getting to me now, however. Because it occurs to me this is exactly why girls like Ani don't speak up. People who don't like the book because they don't like Ani miss the entire point of the story .
It's unlikable, insecure, broken little girls like Ani that are this book is for. And the scathing reviews are evidence that everything they believe people will think about them is true.
Not liking a book because the writing or story is inferior, is one thing. But not liking it because you don't like the hero, well I hope that trend goes away. Insight into unlikable people is exactly why I enjoy reading. It helps me be a bit braver in real life to see past my own assumptions, and friend the person the unlikeable personality has been crafted to protect.
All done. I thought it was an insightful look into how the women we love to hate are born. The hard shell put on to protect a crushed spirit, that ends up deflecting genuine relationships that would heal the broken spirit. I encourage anyone tempted to dislike Ani, to look a little deeper. With a kind person or two at her time if crisis, how may Ani have been completely different?
The reviews describing Ani as unlikeable, annoying, shallow are getting to me now, however. Because it occurs to me this is exactly why girls like Ani don't speak up. People who don't like the book because they don't like Ani miss the entire point of the story .
It's unlikable, insecure, broken little girls like Ani that are this book is for. And the scathing reviews are evidence that everything they believe people will think about them is true.
Not liking a book because the writing or story is inferior, is one thing. But not liking it because you don't like the hero, well I hope that trend goes away. Insight into unlikable people is exactly why I enjoy reading. It helps me be a bit braver in real life to see past my own assumptions, and friend the person the unlikeable personality has been crafted to protect.
All done. I thought it was an insightful look into how the women we love to hate are born. The hard shell put on to protect a crushed spirit, that ends up deflecting genuine relationships that would heal the broken spirit. I encourage anyone tempted to dislike Ani, to look a little deeper. With a kind person or two at her time if crisis, how may Ani have been completely different?