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Genuine FraudIntroduction of the ebook: Genuine Fraud
Đánh giá : 3.28 /5 (sao)
From the author of the unforgettable New York Times bestseller We Were Liars comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel–the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.
Jule is a fighter, a social ch From the author of the unforgettable New York Times bestseller We Were Liars comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel–the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.
Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.
An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two.
A bad romance, or maybe three.
Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains.
A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.
A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.
Praise for E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars
“Haunting, sophisticated. . . . Twisty and well-told.” –The Wall Street Journal
“[It] will leave you dying to talk about the book with a pal or ten.” –Parade.com
“You’re going to want to remember the title. Liars details the summers of a girl who harbors a dark secret, and delivers a satisfying but shocking twist ending.” –Entertainment Weekly
“An ambitious novel with an engaging voice, a clever plot and some terrific writing.” –The New York Times Book Review
“Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable.” –John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars …more
Review ebook Genuine Fraud
Genuine Fraud is neither another We Were Liars or a great alternative for those disappointed with it. It’s a confusing, reverse-chronological rip-off of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
At first, I was liking it. Lockhart has cooled off with the metaphors and weird writing here, making it much more to my tastes stylistically. The book opens at the end of the story with Jule clearly on the run. She dresses up in disguise, calls herself “Imogen” and flees at the first sign her cover has been blown. The sto Genuine Fraud is neither another We Were Liars or a great alternative for those disappointed with it. It’s a confusing, reverse-chronological rip-off of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
At first, I was liking it. Lockhart has cooled off with the metaphors and weird writing here, making it much more to my tastes stylistically. The book opens at the end of the story with Jule clearly on the run. She dresses up in disguise, calls herself “Imogen” and flees at the first sign her cover has been blown. The story moves backwards in time from there.
I don’t mind retellings of classic tales, especially those that stick a woman into a traditional male role, but this book is almost exactly the same story as The Talented Mr. Ripley. Lockhart names it as one of her inspirations for the book, but honestly, inspiration is kind. Not only is the plot almost identical, but all of the characters are too. Imogen, Forrest, Brooke and Imogen’s parents– or should I say Dickie, Marge, Freddie and Dickie’s parents? The murder weapon is even the same!
Perhaps I wouldn’t have noticed this so much if I hadn’t just read The Talented Mr. Ripley last year. To be honest, by far my bigger issue with this book was the complete lack of suspense.
It was too obvious what had happened. Being told in reverse meant we were reading to discover the hows and whys, I suppose, but it never seemed to ratchet up any tension. Jule is introduced to us as a scheming liar so it was no big surprise when – you guessed it – she schemes and she lies.
There is no actual mystery to discover, nor a clever twist to make pushing through worth it. For such a short book, it was pretty boring. There is some interesting social commentary, about women and female roles in particular, but that unfortunately wasn’t enough to hold up the book.
Genuine Fraud is being sold as “mystery” and “suspense”, but there just wasn’t much of either.
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