Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll. MID-SUMMER ADDITION! I read this until 4:00 this morning, so please excuse my incoherence. This is such a quintissential beach read, I felt it was worth calling to your attention. Also, because I almost didn't read it because of the weird cover - so weird I just had to include a picture of it. (WTH?). Okay, brief synopsis: Through sheer force of will, TifAni FaNelli, now known as Ani (Ah-Nee) has finally gotten everything she wanted - the rich, blue-blood fiance, the awesome job, the right clothes. But she is both haunted and driven by some terrible, very public incident from her high school years, when she attended an elite school on the Main Line in suburban Philadelphia. You go back and forth between her high school life and her present-day "perfect" life as the old story unfolds. I hadn't read much about it, but enough to be warned that the "Gone Girl" comparisons are overdone, which they are. It's dark and you aren't sure how reliable the narrator is (or whether you're supposed to love her or hate her). I am probably too tired to think through all the many flaws, but as this is (ostensibly) a "beach book" website, I think the key words are: "read this until 4 a.m." The most Gone Girl-esque thing about it was how it grabbed me by the collar and didn't let me go.
