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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I felt like I was right there with them. Definitely a great read.
A great read!
I felt the story was a little slow to develop. I almost stopped reading it at one point but as i kept reading found it more interesting.
Kept my interest but pretty dark content
Interesting plot – wanted to know what the big reveal would be. Definitely a character with few redeeming qualities
The depth of this novel is not immediate in the first few chapters. It is only when you read on that you realize the personal journey and relevance of the principal character. Left me thinking about it long after I turned the last page. Good for a book club discussion.
gripping – I couldn’t put it down
The narrator is so bitchy and neurotic it got annoying. It takes a ver-r-r-y long time to get to the events that caused her to be that way. I guess I’m just tired of brittle, neurotic trendy New York women.
I really liked this book. I didn’t expect your past to be what it was, and it was such a surprise. Really great read!!
Good read. The main character is very hard to like.
I felt out of the loop when I read this book. Lots of insider information that I didn’t understand.
I love reading a book that I can’t put down — Luckiest Girl is that kind of book! Really gets you thinking about how teenage experiences shape our later lives, and how our words, decisions and actions can intersect with others and lead to unimaginable outcomes.
This book really wowed me. I don’t know if it was the author’s style or the fact that this book dealt with a topic so fresh in the news, one that weighs so heavy on my mind these days. It was all encompassing—the before, the during, the aftermath of the tragedy—which made it all the more powerful.
TifAni was like everyone I knew in high school …
With all the attention regarding this book, I wanted to check it out. My reading and review list has been long for awhile but when the opportunity came up and I could sneak this read in, I did. I benefited by reading the book awhile after the release – I had access to the media clippings and author interviews so I had a general sense of what was …