Luckiest Girl Alive

Luckiest Girl Alive

By:

Jessica Knoll

Spice Scale
Number of books
1 Published
KU
❌
Audiobook
✅
Series Status
Complete
Interconnected
N/A
Overall Rating
Coming Soon

The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller that Reese Witherspoon described as “one of those reads you just can’t put down,” explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and how one young woman uses her sharp edges and cutthroat ambition to hide a scandalous truth.

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. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for or will it—at long last—set Ani free?

With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive is “nail-bitingly addictive…equal parts funny and twisted” (Glamour) and proves that the perfect life is often a perfect lie.

Jamie’s review

I read this years ago and the fact that I can only remember one of the traumatic events in this traumatic event-riddled book without having to google a summary…. speaks for itself. The characters are not particularly likable, and I know it's because of the coping mechanisms and long term effects of PTSD but the author did not do enough for me to empathize or relate at all. I can't remember any upsides. But I do remember how devastating and gripping that scene was. And that has stayed with me.

Erica’s review

Check yo triggers friends. It's a lot packed in there. So basically - opposite of the luckiest girl alive in a nutshell. It kept me reading but it was heavy with a lot of things not great for women and flashbacks of terrible things that happened in her high school life. All of which are being drug back up. It was super popular and even made into a movie (that I didn't see) so give it a go if you are into that sort of thing. I wasn't blown away.