LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE

Finished reading this book over the weekend.Picked this one up solely because it claimed to have the same intensity as Gone Girl.And NO,I didnt judge it by its cover.Onto the story....

Ani FaNelli (full name TifAni FaNelli)is our status-conscious,fashion-conscious heroine who has worked so hard to achieve the 'perfect life ' she is living.She has a glamorous job,an expensive wardrobe and a handsome blue blood fiance.But beneath this carefully constructed perfect exterior lies a murky past which if exposed is capable of destroying everything.Ani is broken inside,all because of something terrible in her past which refuses to leave her.A series of traumatic events of the fall of her freshman year in high school has played a major role in shaping the kind of person she is today.

With her dream wedding only a few months away,she is finally given a chance to make peace with her past.She is afraid to face it but knows that only the truth can set her free.But will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for?

My Views:
Ok.....if you are going to pick this book up like I did solely because you liked reading Gone Girl,you should probably think again.This book is nowhere close to it but if you go with no prior expectation ,then you will probably like it.Im not saying I didnt.I just kept comparing the two heroines and that didnt quite work for me.

When I started reading this book,I took an immediate dislike to the heroine.I thought she was just too fake and over-analytical but as I read on I had to change my opinion.This story is narrated through flashback chapters which alternate with how things are in the present.However we are told only later about what really happens to Ani to change her forever and the way in which it creeps on you is horrific.In Gone Girl,you really like the heroine and then go on to realise how diabolical she can get but in this book you begin by not liking Ani so much and then feel sympathetic towards her.

I could understand totally what it meant to try to fit in High School and how important that is to a teenager.I also believe that who we are and what we become is influenced largely by the events that occur in our lives.How being accepted was all that mattered when you are a certain age and how sometimes some things are just too unforgettable and painful to truly be able to let go.I liked the way all this was dealt with in the book.

However somehow I couldnt connect to the heroine the way I would have liked to and probably that was because the way she was introduced in the beginning,so i felt a disconnect somewhere while reading this story.The narrative also got a bit boring in parts.I felt that there were things left unresolved in the end,but then nothing gets really resolved in life too sometimes and we just make the best of what we get.

But the book dealt with some serious issues.I cannot even begin to imagine what it means to be able to live a lie everyday.So even though the book was not un-putdownable,it was a fairly decent read.

And for the movie buffs,Reese Witherspoon has bought the movie rights for this one.

I rate it a 3 out of 5.