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A review by picklewater
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
1.0
You know that saying that a book should show and not tell?
Well this book only told. There were no parts of any character that were left for the reader to infer through action. Either their character trait was blatantly stated by the narrator TifAni, or it didn't exist at all. And usually the character traits just didn't exist at all. Most of the characters were one-dimensional cardboard cutouts of people, just there to do something to move the plot along or make a quippy one-liner. There were maybe four characters in the entire story with any depth at all, and even that was unsatisfying because they got no development. These characters stayed exactly the same for the entire story, which is almost impressive. None of the characters ever even had any backstory to give the reader a satisfactory explanation for any of their actions. No, you are left guessing at the motivations of every single person in this story except for the main character.
Which leads me to my next point. The book was repetitive. The first-person POV writing style was rambly and vapid, and I feel like at least half of the book was useless filler that didn't end up leading anywhere. Every other paragraph was TifAni talking about how little or how much she was eating, or mentioning the dress size she wore or how skinny she was. And if she wasn't passing judgement on her own body, she was judging someone else's, or judging someone by what designer bags they had or how even their spray tan was. And yes, I get that TifAni has a lot of issues, and the author wanted to show that, but god did it get annoying after a while. I wanted to like TifAni so badly, considering she was the only character who had any depth, but I just couldn't get myself to root for her.
TLDR; I don't know a single thing about any of the characters' backstories or personalities, but thank god I know exactly how much each of them weigh. 1 star.
Well this book only told. There were no parts of any character that were left for the reader to infer through action. Either their character trait was blatantly stated by the narrator TifAni, or it didn't exist at all. And usually the character traits just didn't exist at all. Most of the characters were one-dimensional cardboard cutouts of people, just there to do something to move the plot along or make a quippy one-liner. There were maybe four characters in the entire story with any depth at all, and even that was unsatisfying because they got no development. These characters stayed exactly the same for the entire story, which is almost impressive. None of the characters ever even had any backstory to give the reader a satisfactory explanation for any of their actions. No, you are left guessing at the motivations of every single person in this story except for the main character.
Which leads me to my next point. The book was repetitive. The first-person POV writing style was rambly and vapid, and I feel like at least half of the book was useless filler that didn't end up leading anywhere. Every other paragraph was TifAni talking about how little or how much she was eating, or mentioning the dress size she wore or how skinny she was. And if she wasn't passing judgement on her own body, she was judging someone else's, or judging someone by what designer bags they had or how even their spray tan was. And yes, I get that TifAni has a lot of issues, and the author wanted to show that, but god did it get annoying after a while. I wanted to like TifAni so badly, considering she was the only character who had any depth, but I just couldn't get myself to root for her.
TLDR; I don't know a single thing about any of the characters' backstories or personalities, but thank god I know exactly how much each of them weigh. 1 star.