AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will thrill at “the perfect page-turner to start your summer” (People, Book of the Week): Luckiest Girl Alive—described by Reese Witherspoon as “one of those reads you just can’t put down!” “Loved Gone Girl? We promise [Luckiest Girl Alive is] just as addictive.” —Good Housekeeping “Jessica Knoll … Girl? We promise [Luckiest Girl Alive is] just as addictive.”
—Good Housekeeping
“Jessica Knoll introduces you to your new best frenemy, and you’re going to love it. . . .Destined to become one of the summer’s most gripping reads.”
—Bustle.com
“With the cunning and verve of Gillian Flynn but an intensity all its own, Luckiest Girl Alive is a debut you won’t want to miss.”
—Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and The Fever
“Luckiest Girl Alive is Gone Girl meets Cosmo meets Sex and the City. . . . Knoll hits it out of the park.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE.
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve.
But Ani has a secret.
There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.
With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that’s bigger than it first appears.
The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?
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Finished Luckiest Girl Alive about a week ago and still thinking about it. If your thinking about reading, do it. Such a good book.
I recommend Jessica Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive, which I recently picked up when looking for a fast-paced read.
This book is often compared to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, and while I can see similarities — including the word ‘girl’ in the title — they are pretty different. Knoll’s book felt angled towards a younger audience, as the …
Finished Luckiest Girl Alive! There are definitely twists at the end of this book I didn’t see coming, but my overall impression remains the same: a dark, funny, moving book about the twisted things humans think and do in order to survive. Revenge, redemption, and surprisingly, romance. Loved it.
The lingering affects of trauma…that is the theme of this novel. I could go into detail about the parallel storylines, the timeframes, and the relationship dynamics featured here, but it doesn’t change the devastating portrait of a woman who grew up broken, unbelieved, invalidated, and judged. It’s hard to heal under those circumstances, and the …
Finished Luckiest Girl Alive this weekend. It’s so good. Everyone who has been meaning to read it should! @lisad
Finished this book last night, and I really enjoyed it! While I didn’t find the protagonist all that likable, I loved her voice and dry wit, and found this to be a fast read that was hard to put down (even at 1am on a work night… oops). I wouldn’t personally compare it to The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl (lots of “Girl” in these titles, eh?), …
I devoured this original and fresh novel in a couple of sittings. How refreshing to have a female protagonist who isn’t afraid to express herself or go for what she wants. Recommend.
Based on the opening scene and the back cover blurb, this book wasn’t quite what I expected it to be– it was better, and amazingly good. It’s been compared to Gone Girl, though I think that’s a pretty loose comparison, beyond the idea of a woman pretending to be something she’s not.
TIfAni, the misfit teen, is a girl we’ve all known– or been. …
Gritty, raw, intense, amazing…I loved this book. When people compared it to Gone Girl, I was expecting more of a psychological twist, but this was so much better. I was not a fan of the author’s handling of eating disorders, and the lack of negative impressions of them, but overall, it was fabulous, and I really wish it wasn’t over already.
I recently finished Luckiest Girl Alive, which has been compared to Gone Girl and is totally up my alley.
It deals with some heavy stuff, and now I need to read something fun and happy because my heart aches for girls like TifAni. And then there’s Ani, who my heart also aches for, but in a different way. She’s so horrible and calculating but …
The Luckiest Girl Alive is my first holiday read of the season and it was a good one.
Ani is few months away from her wedding to a rich, handsome man. They live in New York together, each with satisfying jobs and a glamorous lifestyle. But Ani has had a difficult past, which is coming forth to the present in the build up to her wedding.
First of …
This novel definitely felt like a commentary of today’s society and unfortunately it hit its mark rather well. Exploring issues of bullying, sexual assault, and violence in the youth of today is a rather large task to take on. I thought Knoll did a fairly good job in her attempt to examine all the issues. I thought the major problem with this book …
I will catch flack because of this but I pretty much liked Adult Ani right off the bat. I don’t see why there is a fuss over her being “unlikable” as she seems like the female lead in almost every other romance/chick-lit book that I have read, except for the fact that she is brutally honest about the fact that she is dishonest and kinda crazy. Ani …
My main problem with this novel, like so many others, was the main character but also every other character in the book. There is nobody likable in this novel. Nobody. It’s hard to care about a story that doesn’t seem to have any redeeming or even relatable characters, at least for me. Does Ani go through a lot? Sure. This book tackles so big and …
Just finished Luckiest Girl Alive. Very well written. Kind of disturbing. Great for a book club. It calls for a lot of discussion
What a great book. That sounds like a simplistic statement but overall the plot is solid, the characters are believable and relatable, and I was glued to the story. So many reviews said that Ani was too unlikeable, but I didn’t find that. Sure, she was a snarky teenager who was mouthy and selfish but I also saw her vulnerability and desperate need …
Excellent novel about how our past can shape our future.
Barely readable neurotic focus. Kept reading hoping for some reason this book was written. Never found it.
Interesting read.
I found this book very well-written and it really held my interest, but if you have to LIKE the main character in a book, this one’s not for you. For much of the book, I really disliked her, and it was only as you learn WHY she’s the way she is, that you can empathize with her. It’s not a light read, but I thought it was really well done. There is …