This will sound like a cliche but it's true: there are some books that, when you start reading them, right from the get-go you feel in safe hands and sure that you'll enjoy them, and this is one. I read and adored Lockhart's We Were Liars a little while back, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is impressively different in tone while being of a comparable quality; Frankie's coming into her own as a 'near criminal mastermind' at her exclusive Massachusetts preparatory school while simultaneously discovering her agency amidst the privileged, masculine environment that finds its clearest expression in the secret society of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds which she effectively subverts is strongly feminist while also (just about) believable, and a hugely enjoyable read.
