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A review by bestdressedbookworm
Fake by Stephanie Wood
5.0
A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies.
This was brilliant on so many levels. In Fake, Stephanie Wood, an Investigative Journalist from Sydney, tells her first hand account of falling in love with a Narcissistic Fantasist and the effects of living a life that you have no idea is a completely manipulative lie. Sometimes people convince themselves that what they are fabricating is so true that they even start to believe their own lies and cons. “Fake”delves into being in a relationship with a person with this sort of psychosis at play and how hard it is to spot, even though it seems like it should be so easy.
I watched the Netflix documentary, Inventing Anna, and this had that same sort of con artist themes where if someone shows you they are important, wealthy, busy and a person of the world, it is so easy to believe, get swept up in….until it’s not.
The irony is not lost on me how brilliantly this non fiction memoire articulates fabrication and fiction.
This was brilliant on so many levels. In Fake, Stephanie Wood, an Investigative Journalist from Sydney, tells her first hand account of falling in love with a Narcissistic Fantasist and the effects of living a life that you have no idea is a completely manipulative lie. Sometimes people convince themselves that what they are fabricating is so true that they even start to believe their own lies and cons. “Fake”delves into being in a relationship with a person with this sort of psychosis at play and how hard it is to spot, even though it seems like it should be so easy.
I watched the Netflix documentary, Inventing Anna, and this had that same sort of con artist themes where if someone shows you they are important, wealthy, busy and a person of the world, it is so easy to believe, get swept up in….until it’s not.
The irony is not lost on me how brilliantly this non fiction memoire articulates fabrication and fiction.