Luckiest Girl Alive in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 10, 2016 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it

This book confirms it: Your high school years, for most of us, are not the best years of your life. For Ani, these years were soul-crushing, and, worse, were the poison that continued to shape the decisions of her twenties long after high school was over.

Can you hate the events of a story and yet still respect the book? Should you choose to read a book in which the characters, over and over, act in ways that perpetuate the cruelty others have shown to them? I say yes to both questions, because ...more

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Nov 10, 2015 Terri rated it liked it

Shelves: mysteries-american, modern-fiction, american-fiction

Could it be the no-calorie diet or the constant exercise? Some reason to explain why our protagonist is such a shallow twit? She sabotages all the women around her and picks weak men that she can manipulate. The author (Jessica Knoll) is breathtaking gorgeous and she can write. So why does she mimic the bestselling "Gone Girl" to such a degree? Oh wait, it must be for the money that will spawn movie stars to want to make this book into a film. ...more

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Sep 21, 2022 Natasha rated it liked it

It will me a while to get into it, then I got really hooked in the middle of the book and couldn’t stop reading.

The ending was underwhelming though.

I’m still planning to watch the movie when it comes out this week.

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