I went into Genuine Fraud with literally zero idea of what to expect since the blurb told me absolutely nothing. I was excited for a good mystery thriller. Instead, what I got was The Talented Mr. Ripley with teenage girls. Seriously, it's the same exact story with only minor changes. If you were to swap out character names and locations it's exactly the same story. Hell... even the murder weapon is the same! The only main difference is that Genuine Fraud is told backwards. 
 While telling the story backwards is an interesting creative choice as a writer, it didn't do me any favors as a reader. I wanted to connect to Jule and live inside her twisted mind. When the story was being told backward it crippled any emotional responses I may have had. It made it hard to follow and connect to the characters. I think I would have actually preferred just a straight up retelling of The Talented Mr. Ripley told linearly rather than a backwards version. It didn't help the story in my opinion. It more like shot it in the foot. 
 In the end, I just wasn't thrilled with the story or the characters. Even with a retelling of a widely known story, there could have been some new insights to be found. Sadly, in the case of Genuine Fraud I just never really got into the story. The backwards retelling seemed like it was supposed to hold the reader in suspense to find out why the events were happening. The problem was that, for me at least, it made the story impossible to follow at times because there was never any context for the events I was seeing. It was the lack of context that inevitably made me just not really care about what was happening because I never really had a solid reason to care in the first place.