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Book Review: Genuine Fraud
Aug. 27th, 2018 04:50 pmIMOGEN 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.
“How nice,” I thought, as I read this flap copy on E. Lockhart’s latest book, Genuine Fraud. “An E. Lockhart book where the female friends actually care about each other and their friendship is central to the plot. That will be a departure.”
HA! HA! HA!
( spoilers )
What particularly pisses me off is that the book’s dedication is “For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.” Lockhart doesn’t seem to realize that it matters what you are splendidly furious about, and what you do with that fury. Murdering an innocent person in a fit of rage doesn’t make a character a feminist hero.
JULE is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete.
An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two.
“How nice,” I thought, as I read this flap copy on E. Lockhart’s latest book, Genuine Fraud. “An E. Lockhart book where the female friends actually care about each other and their friendship is central to the plot. That will be a departure.”
HA! HA! HA!
( spoilers )
What particularly pisses me off is that the book’s dedication is “For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.” Lockhart doesn’t seem to realize that it matters what you are splendidly furious about, and what you do with that fury. Murdering an innocent person in a fit of rage doesn’t make a character a feminist hero.
