Luckiest Girl Alive

by Jessica Knoll

[kalventure]

At the beginning of the novel I was entirely confused. To be honest, wondered if I had picked up the wrong book from my "to read" pile as the first chapter was so off from what I had read on the back cover. I re-read the back and confirmed that I am not senile just yet, and started back where I left off. The confusion never really went away, and I found myself skipping back to see if I missed something.

The book is written with jumps in time, each chapter is a different period of the narrator - TifAni, or just Ani - life, either present day at 28 or 14 years prior at the start of high school. There is no indication that this is happening, and as such the jumps are disjointed and jarring, although once I caught on I could at least expect it.

I will give it to Knoll in that the novel did not go where I thought it would on multiple occasions. Ani is unforgivably vapid and unrelatable, and the story is kind of flat, but I did keep reading it to find out what happened. A page turner, but not a very interesting one... which I think is somehow a feat.

I am left without strong feelings one way or another on this book, granted I appear to be the only person that hasn't read Gone Girl. I am sure that if I had my opinion would be less than neutral.