TifAni FaNelli is 14 starting at a new prestigious school and desperate to fit in. Her Mom is just as desperate, going into debt to get TifAni the right clothes, makeup, etc. Fast forward to Ani, now 28 with a new and improved name, rich and pedigreed fiancee and a writer for a popular women's magazine in NYC. An upcoming documentary has her questioning her current lifestyle and reliving a series of terrible events that happened her freshman year of high school. 
 This book was very readable in a gossip mag sort of way. Most of the characters were pretty one dimensional and inconsistent, which made it hard for me to really care about anyone. When the author introduced serious issues, she did not delve too deeply. I kept reading to find out if some of the victims would get redemption. (view spoiler)[I'm sorry to say that no one really ever did. Everyone remained pretty nasty and selfish. Even Mr. Larson, the only character with any redeemable qualities succumbs to Ani's (fake?) charms and goes in for a make-out and spoon session. The final "twist" ending was anti-climactic and inconsistent as well. (hide spoiler)] There was an opportunity to really explore some of the more interesting and layered peripheral characters, but they were left to fade away in the wake of Ani's own trauma.