Phew. This book may be small...but it sure does drag. It had me in the first few chapters, but it slowed quickly and became predictable and repetitive. I was excited about the different format: backwards storytelling. I just feel like Lockhart fell short with it. I was a big fan of We Were Liars and I had high hopes for this story. It's been awhile since I read WWL but I feel like in Genuine Fraud, Lockhart tried too hard to sound unnecessarily mysterious and metaphorical and it made the story hard to follow. 

For instance: 

What was the deal with Jule's mysterious past? What happened to her parents? Who killed them? Lockhart would write the scene but then make it seem like Jule made that up to repress what really happened or to make her parents seem better than they were.

So many things were left up in the air and felt like unnecessary additives in this book.

I'm not sure what Paolo's whole role was or why he even existed. I'm not sure why Imogen's parents would randomly hire a girl Imogen used to go to school with to follow her and see what she was doing. I get dad was sick and they couldn't go after her but it just felt so weird. Like why Jule? And what happened to Jule in her life to make her do these things.

I don't know, maybe I just didn't get it. But it was certainly a disappointment when my expectations were set from We Were Liars.