A review by nini_readswithcats
My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams

3.0

Overall this is probably more like a 2.5 * book for me. On the surface this is the kind of book I would devour, true crime, con artists and wealthy socialites. However I found this book incredibly irritating, (this is a purely a personal feeling and is in no way a comment on the authors writing ability). I just found Williams the narrator, and the events she chose I assume in order to highlight how cleverly she was conned to be very difficult to sympathise with. It didn't help that the author herself recognises that her "friendship" with Anna was based on activities that she could not afford yet continued to attend paid for by Anna. Plenty of people have been brought up to see the best in people but would still stop contacting the person who had conned then out of tens of thousands of dollars once they were arrested.
I think I will probably watch and enjoy the netflix special on this story when it comes out this year as personally it wasn't the story I found grating but the narrators voice, and the amount of what I felt was padding, that was included seemingly to turn this piece from an article into a book.