Oh, I did not like the main character of this book, and while I don’t believe the author intended me to, I disliked her and all her friends and her whole freaking family so much that by the point when the big tragic event of Ani’s high school years was finally revealed, I felt almost guilty at my total lack of sympathy. “It’s okay to be insufferable as long as you’re aware that you’re being insufferable. At least that’s how I justified it to myself.” Ugh. So […]
You can’t escape the past
The Luckiest Girl Alive was another recommendation via Reese Witherspoon’s Instagram page; once again the woman has excellent taste in novels. The Luckiest Girl has “With cunning and verve of GILLIAN FLYNN but with an intensity all its own” written in huge letters on the front cover, and while drawing comparisons between Flynn and new female authors is getting a bit played out, this was the book I felt most merited the comparison. Like Flynn, Jessica Knoll has a female narrator with a dark past […]