Sarra Manning

The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Janna Niemi

First off, I haven’t read the original Vanity Fair so I can’t compare these two books. 
When it comes to this book, I can honestly say I liked the book. I both admire and hate Becky Sharp. 
The story itself kind of pulls you in and goes up and down and up and down until the end. The plot is interesting and I feel all kinds of emotions and I absolutely love that Amelia got a happy ending and that George Wiley got what he deserved. 
All in all it was a good book that made me feel a thousand emotions. 

* ARC received from the publisher via Netgalley

Ruth Parker 

As a book this was a weird one. Usually I would say that none of the characters had any redeeming features and the story rewarded those terrible characters for their awful actions and despicable choices.
BUT this was a fairly faithful modern day adaption of Vanity Fair and I was impressed with that. It’s a fairly tough book to adapt for modern audiences and it was done well. 
The book gets an extra star for being a strong interpretation of the original text, but as a modern story it isn’t perfect. 
Becky Sharp is just awful.

The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

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