Book Review: Luckiest Girl Alive

     One of my favorite types of YouTube videos to watch are book hauls and favorite books of the month. That is where I get my ideas on books I should read and it is always nice to hear what other people thought about a book. Anyways, I was watching Scarlett Turners book favorites video and she mentioned Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll. Scarlett's description of the book mentioned that it is similar to the book and film, Gone Girl. I only saw the movie version of Gone Girl, it was very interesting/ twisted movie, so when it was mentioned in the favorites video that the two are similar, I automatically knew I wanted to read it.

     When reading this book, it did have some strong language and kind of graphic moments, so I would suggest that this book only be read by a more mature and older audience. Reading this book, it was kind of confusing at the beginning because the author would write in present day and then the next chapter would be a flash back to her child/teen years. It takes a couple of chapters to get used to because you'll go from her life in NYC working at for a magazine and then it will flash back to her life in high school, but it all makes sense and wraps everything together at the end of the book.

Jessica Knoll 

     Luckiest Girl Alive, was kind of like a mystery, because the main character, Ani (TifAni), that we follow throughout the story keeps shadowing on a very important part of her life but we never know what that important thing is until near the end of the book. So the whole time you are reading you are trying to put the little bits of insight together to figure out what happened to this girl, but when you reach the end I would not have guessed in a million years what had happened to that girl.

     A lot of people did reference the book to Gone Girl, and yes at some parts you could see the similarities because of the gory kind of details, but for a lot of the book it did not really connect. Gone Girl, was very dramatic and kind of cynical with the woman planning her murder to play it off that her husband did it and also pretending she was dead while she was actually off in a new state with a new identity. That was very extreme to say the least. In Luckiest Girl Alive, it was intense in its own because the worst of it happens in the end when you find everything out, but there are some bad scenes through out the book as well.

quote from the book

     To be honest, after reading this book I felt a bit depressed for Ani (main character). Through out the entire book, Ani, would size herself up to other woman and compare her looks, and then when she was done comparing she would make the decision if she was better or the other woman was. How exhausting would that be to think about that all of the time. **SPOILER ALERT** It was also an eye opener to what happens to women that are raped and how negatively they are treated by other people saying it's there fault they were not being careful. How is that right? **SPOILER ALERT DONE**

     Overall I think this book was well written and how the author did those flashbacks every other chapter, so you could really understand the story line better. I recommend this book for a more mature audience, like maybe 17 (at the least) and up, just because of the language and some scenes are bit graphic. Other than that, I think this book could be a good lesson for people, and a huge eye opener to what actually does happen in the real world and what sadly still happens in the world.

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