Luckiest Girl Alive

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.