Review: Genuine Fraud
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart My rating: 2 of 5 stars There are two vastly different interpretations one can make when walking away from this book, specifically regarding the ending. But clearly based upon my generous two star score, I chose to go with interpretation option A, which is the option that will look you dead in the eye and tell you that this book isn’t very good. For starters, I didn’t love having to constantly stop and recalibrate my location in this narrative like a faulty GPS at the start of every chapter. I fully support a novel being told in reverse, and quite frankly that trope intrigues me in and of itself. But here it didn’t feel necessary and it and only served to disorient the reader. I have to assume this was done in order to make a very straight forward, yet incredibly implausible and cliche storyline feel new and fresh and enthralling and complex - but nah. This ain’t it, honey. You could tell this story starting with the midd...
