Luckiest Girl Alive - Book Review

In a sea of fiction books with too many titles adding to its stock daily we might get to read lot of good ones or nice reads, but only few could be really amazing. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll is absolutely such an amazing read I had the luck to come across!

TifAni FaNelli, who goes by Ani (Ah-nee) now and soon to be a Harrison has it all. She is 28 years old with a sparkling career and a blue blooded fiancee which any girl could be jealous of and especially the people who knows her past would marvel. Well, the success she has gained was not really offered to her in a silver platter. She had to put a lot of efforts to achieve all of that. Putting up a real stunt to look that happy wasn’t easy, she had to be very strong and determined as her ever so lucky and perfect life is nothing but a meticulously dramatised lie. Within that zero figure body covered in expensive clothes and jewellery lies the real Ani, harboring a dark secret from everyone around. Will she go on with the usual drama or finally let out her secrets and make peace with her past, is something for the readers to find out.

Ani is sharp, more than the people around her would register. She could assess the people and the situations to pull out a fine act and play innocent, obedient and vulnerable. The exact way the society expects her to be. At the beginning I found her quite vicious and ungrateful for she was really pretentious when her heart felt the exact opposite. Certain behaviour towards her loved ones made me question what’s wrong with her attitudes and behaviour. After all it was obvious that she is the luckiest girl alive! But soon enough the hazy truth, the reasons behind the transformation of TifAni into a cold and disturbed person would become clearer little by little.

The plot sways between the past and the present. Unwinding of the memories is at slow pace and finely blended with the current incidents. I was glued to the book careful not to skip even a single sentence with the fear of missing a crucial point. Even quite normal scenarios can suddenly become a plot twist. Every such spectacular turn of events would make me gasp in shock. And then I was ready to settle with the truth revealed but to my utter surprise I find that there is more to come. It happened this way until the very end. The journey of young Tifani FaNelli in the make of Ani would-be-Harrison is truly breathtaking.

I don't have firsthand experience of America, and I wonder whether the culture narrated in the story is common mainly with regards to school life and the teenagers. If it is, then it’s horrible! The children are given way too much freedom and chances to act as adults even before they are old enough to understand the things. This may sure lead to taunts and torture for another person. Its a pity that so many children are unfortunate to go through severe torments which would break them beyond repair and make them harmful people. They could be either harmful to themselves or to the society, however the matters should not be overlooked. The outcomes of denial would cause greater damage. Probably it would create Anis from the innocent TifAnis or Arthurs and Bens.

It’s a kind of story that I would wish to re-read as soon as I finished the book. I could be cautious next time at the places I was caught off guard and braze myself to take the blows. The language is profuse and the author has been very precise throughout the storytelling. Both characters and the readers have quite a lot to take in. Though its unexpected, the climax was well deserving. Finally I could say that protagonist was given justice.

I give 5/5 stars to this book and would highly recommend it to any reader. It may open your eyes to look at your loved ones who might have gone through similar mishaps, with more compassion and understanding. Hope everyone would try to be an Andrew Larson instead of a Luke Harrison!