Just as it seems she’s about to be arrested for some sort of crime (fraud? something worse?), we go backwards in time. We don’t know what happened to Imogen, only that she is dead, and Jule is pretending to be her. We start with Jule, who has taken on the identity of her best friend Imogen, a flighty heiress who was as aimless as she was charming. I do like it when YA authors experiment with structure and plotting, so to see that it started at the end was a great way to start this book. Throw in a little bit of timeline tweaking that starts at the end for good measure, and you have the newest novel from the author of “We Were Liars”, with more coastal scenes and protagonists that you aren’t sure that you can really trust. Lockhart, it didn’t take long for me to pick up on the fact that this book is a genderbent version of that story. So when I started to read “Genuine Fraud” by E. It’s super messed up and a very fun read, and I think that many of the more recent psychopaths as protagonists characters owe a lot to Patricia Highsmith, who created the character. It’s a deeply unsettling thriller about a man named Tom Ripley who befriends a wealthy playboy, only to kill him and take on his identity. Review: I mentioned a book on this blog this summer called “The Talented Mr. 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. Where Did I Get This Book: An ARC from the publisher at ALA.īook Description: The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. Publishing Info: Delacorte Press, September 2017

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