If you liked titles such as The Girl on the Train, the First Bad Man, or The Woman Upstairs, Luckiest Girl Alive is a natural progression. We've got potentially unreliable narrators, and female characters that are complex, if not particularly likable. 
 In Luckiest Girl Alive, Ani (pronounced Ahnee) seem to have it all. She's got a high powered job in NYC, and a prominent fiancee. And she knows it. She's image concious and can play the game. While planning her wedding, she is also gearing up to film a documentary bout an event that happened at her old high school, an even that changed her life forever. 
 The writing in this is good. I like Knoll's voice, even if at times I had trouble connecting to the characters. I didn't like Ani, which isn't a flaw of the book by any means. Women should get to be just as unlikeable as men. It just made it harder for me to have something to grasp onto. And the subject matter can be intense. It could be weird to hear such brutal honest from Ani, particularly around social things, but her character was just willing to articulate a lot of ugly internalized things of being a woman. 
 The pacing felt weird in places. The carrot of whatever happened to Ani seemed to be dangled for a long time, and to a certain extent I wasn't sure we really dealt with things well. The first 1/2 of the book was harder for me to hook into in many ways, although I may have just been in the wrong frame of mind. I flew through the second half. The ending was satisfying for me as a reader.