The publisher calls it “unsettling” and I found that to be extremely true. Without going too much further into the details of the story I’ll say that Genuine Fraud is a psychological, dark and twisted book. This totally flips the idea that the more you get to know a character the more you relate and root for them. I also loved how the further into the story I got, the less I liked Jule. One prediction I had that proved true was that we have an unreliable narrator. My brain had to focus 100% on reading and piecing together the backward pieces of this story. No trying to tune out the TV or music in the background and read, at least for me. No sitting at the beach listening to the bustle of kids playing around you. I had to continuously reevaluate past scenes in my mind, making sense of them in the new, growing amount of context about past events we get as we continue to read. As the reader, we know the what and want to learn the why and how of the main character, Jule’s present situation. We are given a story told in reverse chronological order. I was expecting a similar disorienting and hazy writing style that made We Were Liars such an interesting read. So I went into Genuine Fraud almost completely blank, having only glanced at the extremely vague synopsis on the back cover. Lockhart’s books are best read with no prior knowledge about them in my opinion.
Special thanks to the publisher for providing me with an ARC for review!Į. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains.Ī girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.Ī girl who refuses to be the person she once was. A murder, or maybe two.īlunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.Īn intense friendship. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.
But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. To be published September 5, 2017, by Delacorte Press.
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