Luckiest Girl Alive
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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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didn't know what the book was about before I started reading but all I knew were a bunch of people online saying “don't read the book/watch the movie without knowing what it's about because it's very upsetting and triggering” and the way this book is planned is that you should NOT know what it's about before watching/reading it. I can't explain why without spoiling it. I would say to only read/ watch it if you can handle dark topics and disturbing crimes, if you can't then don't read it
The review quoted on the cover promised me the likes of Gillian Flynn, but the book did not deliver. This is the absolute definition of “chick lit.” It reads just like a young-adult high school drama (fitting, as the plot revolves completely around unsettled high school drama), thinly veiled with some easy literary references and current adult pop-culture notes. The characters were flat and on the whole un-likeable, most of all the narrator. I did get some enjoyment from the overly dramatic, mostly predictable plot - indulging my inner adolescent. But that is not enough to redeem the book or for me to recommend to anyone else.
All my life, I've found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.
