There’s something very exciting and different about a story that makes a mystery out of what happens at the beginning rather than what happens at the end (or what happens next). There is a lot of reread potential for Genuine Fraud it’s always interesting to go back with the full perspective, but the perspective changes so much in Genuine Fraud that it would be fascinating. Her books-or, at least, the ones that I’ve read-are bonkers and they make the readers doubt everything they’ve read. It’s genuinely fun, genuinely scary, and genuinely one-of-a-kind. I don’t want to get too deeply into the specifics, because revealing even the most basic plot points in this book would spoil it, but I can say that the whole novel is one WTF moment after another. The way Jule got to the place she’s in is not what I expected. There are a few chapters that do not strictly fit in that order-namely, the story loops back around to the end right at the very finish (the first chapter you read is chapter 18 the last chapter you read is chapter 19)-but for the most part the story is about peeling back the many layers of deceptions to find out how protagonist Jule got to the place she’s in.
Roughly speaking, we start at the end and work backwards. As the story unfolds, I found myself getting sucked deeper and deeper in until I couldn’t put the book down.Ī lot of this is due to the writing, specifically the organization. When I first started, I had a hard time orienting myself around who the characters were and what exactly was going on. 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. There’s no way I could summarize this novel without either making it sound bad or spoiling it, so here’s the official cover from the cover-flap:
I’d heard good things about Genuine Fraud as well, so I figured I’d give it a shot. Lockhart’s novel We Were Liarslast year and enjoyed it. This time, at least, I went in knowing that I like the author. Right after explaining that I don’t usually like thrillers all that much, I read another thriller.
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