Genre: Young Adult/ Mystery
Date Published: September 5, 2017
Pages: 264
Source: Bloomsbury India Review Copy
Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of the unforgettable New York Times bestseller We Were Liars comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel–the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.
Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.
An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two.
A bad romance, or maybe three.
Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains.
A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.
A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.
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My View: I had heard so many good things about ‘We were liars’ that when I got an opportunity to read this one by E. Lockhart, I dived at it.
Genuine Fraud pulls you right in. That was my first emotion.
And the last? After I was done reading the book – ‘What did I just read. OMG!’
Yeah, well. This book will ‘play crazy’ (insert the abusive word here) with your mind. Like really! I have never read such a creative work that takes you back. In time. Literally. No, there’s no flashback. It’s all written in the opposite order. You go from present to the past when it all began, one chapter at a time. It’s like, wow. I really need to understand how she wrote it. Haha. Intriguing!
It’s unputdownable. I love me some crazy characters and Genuine Fraud is swarming with them. The writing is clear, precise and to the point. I finished the book in a marathon read of two days (would have finished it sooner were I at home and under usual circumstances).
Jule is my favorite character. I only wish she would have done something more, something different. But well, I didn’t write the book. And Lockart did a good enough job!
If you like a crazy, mind-boggling mystery, thriller you can finish in one sitting. This. This should be your pick.
3.5/5 stars – Somewhere between ‘I liked it’ and ‘I really liked it’.
Author Bio:
E. Lockhart is the author of Genuine Fraud, We Were Liars, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The Boyfriend List and several other novels.
website: www.emilylockhart.com
Liars site: www.wewereliars.com
blog: www.theboyfriendlist.com
Twitter: elockhart
Many thanks to Bloomsbury India for providing the review copy. All views are my own and unbiased.
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Sounds like a good one to me. Thanks for sharing a new to me author.
sherry @ fundinmental
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It was. Her ‘We were liars’ is supposed to be really good too! Thank you for stopping by, Sherry. 🙂
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