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bribwriter 's review for:
Luckiest Girl Alive
by Jessica Knoll
I want to preface this with the TW of this book: sensitive content, SA, trauma, school shootings.
I also want to note: Jessica Knoll is a strong woman who told her story through the lens of a fictional character. Reading her note at the end made so viscerally emotional. I don’t know how she had the strength to write something so grueling and sad. This has never happened to me and I had to put the book away a few times to take a deep breath. I can’t say enough about this. It’s heartbreaking to read and I know it was even worse to write.
To the review:
This started off well for me but I think the pacing was off. I think there were so many moments I didn’t really care about at all. I wish we could have started with teenage Ani instead of having flashbacks here and there. The structure of the novel was not good and the part of the story we were facing with Ani and her marriage was just boring because Luke was unlikeable as hell. And I know that’s important but still. I do think this would have done well if the story of her younger self was on the forefront and then at the end we had a flash forward bc that was what was interesting.
I think they gloss pass a lot of trauma Ani had. Everyone does and I found myself just angry about how she was treated by everyone except Mr. Larson. I know it’s realistic but it is insane that she didn’t put more likeable characters in the novel. I hated everyone honestly. I even disliked Ani a lot. I also think that with the amount of trauma she went through…. idk idk. Her mom made everything about her, her dad was never present. Like it was just so bad. And I also didn’t like that her only friend in high school after everything was someone she no longer spoke to or about. She didn’t even think to reach out to her when they were doing the documentary to see if she was doing the documentary as well.
Overall, a lot lacked for me here and it’s just an average book.
I also want to note: Jessica Knoll is a strong woman who told her story through the lens of a fictional character. Reading her note at the end made so viscerally emotional. I don’t know how she had the strength to write something so grueling and sad. This has never happened to me and I had to put the book away a few times to take a deep breath. I can’t say enough about this. It’s heartbreaking to read and I know it was even worse to write.
To the review:
This started off well for me but I think the pacing was off. I think there were so many moments I didn’t really care about at all. I wish we could have started with teenage Ani instead of having flashbacks here and there. The structure of the novel was not good and the part of the story we were facing with Ani and her marriage was just boring because Luke was unlikeable as hell. And I know that’s important but still. I do think this would have done well if the story of her younger self was on the forefront and then at the end we had a flash forward bc that was what was interesting.
I think they gloss pass a lot of trauma Ani had. Everyone does and I found myself just angry about how she was treated by everyone except Mr. Larson. I know it’s realistic but it is insane that she didn’t put more likeable characters in the novel. I hated everyone honestly. I even disliked Ani a lot. I also think that with the amount of trauma she went through…. idk idk. Her mom made everything about her, her dad was never present. Like it was just so bad. And I also didn’t like that her only friend in high school after everything was someone she no longer spoke to or about. She didn’t even think to reach out to her when they were doing the documentary to see if she was doing the documentary as well.
Overall, a lot lacked for me here and it’s just an average book.