Luckiest Girl Alive Paperback – Big Book, 5 April 2016

I absolutely loved this book. It was way better then the movie. But I mean all books are usually better then the movie. Gave way more details and really drew you in!

Excellent novel.... gripping.....enjoyed it.

Luckiest Girl Alive is a tantalizing first novel with a bold, brash irreverent heroine who skids off the margins in juicy technicolor and settles into your sofa like a Persian cat with slitted eyes, long, long claws and a penchant for dragging those claws across expensive upholstery.This book is NOT for fans of E.L. James, Stephanie Meyer or Nicolas Sparks. Stand back, because Knoll ricochets words like Nadal slams tennis balls. She writes mountainous sundaes of metaphors -- so bloated and oozing, so drenched in bloodied cherries and gluey caramel it seems like your ingesting calories just by reading them. Ani FaNelli, the fiery heroine is a spectacular stew of diabolical dysfunction. Her complexities and quirks so lavish and distinctive they almost drool down her back like a cape. Her rage is so dense and calcified you could crack it in half like a porcelain saucer. Told in the first person, Ani's voice tethers you immediately as she reveals dark horrors from her past chiseled out of a culture besieged with narcissism and barbarity.NOW: Is this Gone Girl?No. It's not. However comparisons are not inaccurate. Knoll and Flynn are shockingly good writers who both possess the remarkable ability to warp reality until it resembles a Salvidor Dali. Until it's melted and marvelous and your wading through a solid wooden table and groping for a murder weapon in a capsized ear the size of a Toyota. Knoll and Flynn excel at obliterating the ordinary. They're aggressive writers who have no time for your appointments or whining children or dinner reservations. By page 5 they will have bashed in your door like Federal marshals. They'll drag you out and shove you in the back of their van and you won't even care. You'll just sit there. spellbound and stupefied, abandoning your dinner and your phone and that good night's sleep you so desperately need. These writers will make mincemeat of your circadian rhythms. They'll keep you up until 5:00 AM and then they'll have the audacity to invade your dreams -- their crazed characters kicking yours out of the way like soda cans on the side of the road. Yes, it's that easy. Your subconscious will not stand a chance against the Tsunami of dysfunctional wackos that Flynn and Knoll churn out like Apple churns out i-pads.So Gone Girl or Luckiest Girl Alive?Gone Girl wins and the main reason is plot. Gone Girl's superb structure and wickedly clever treasure hunts and jaw dropping convulsions give it the edge. That book's plot is as impenetrable as the pentagon and moves with the speed and stealth of a comic book icon.HOWEVER, that is not to say Luckiest Girl Alive isn't well plotted or lacking suspense. It just isn't the caliber of Flynn's. Yet......This is Knoll's first novel and I am without a doubt she is capable of matching Flynn given some time. She is the dark horse, and the dirt and smoke being kicked up on the track around these two is something usually generated by Daniel Craig's careening Astin martin.I gave Luckiest Girl Alive 5 stars because in the end, I didn't read this book to simply compare it to Gone Girl. Everyone told me to. And of course, everyone is waiting for the next Gone Girl and that would be wonderful, but not realistic. Knoll's characters are unique. They throb on the page and Ani FaNelli may not be Amy Dunne but I guarantee you'll like her.....even if she claws your sofa and eats your goldfish......you'll kind of love her.

The book needs some more consistency. Apart from very isolated brilliant lines, the book it's not catching and the author enlarges too much the story with no need, so I had to make efforts to finish it. It's just an okay book, with a kind of creative narrative, but not very well sustained. It could be much better if Jessica Knoll had spent more time working on this story.

Großartig geschrieben, großartige Story, bis zum Ende spannend, toll gezeichnete Charaktere mit tiefen Geschichten - bitte nicht vom Titel dazu verleiten lassen zu denken, dass dies Chick Lit sein. Ganz große Belletristik!