Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

I loved the cover of this book, and the summary really hooked me … Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.

Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her. A girl who refuses to be the person she once was. … 
But it was this line that made me pick up the book. “What’s your name again? I’m Noa.” Jule shook it. “I didn’t tell you my name,” she said. “But it’s Imogen.”
BAM. This book is so suspenseful it literally turned my mind into jelly. I could not figure out what on earth was happening. At all. Also, the book is told in reverse chronological order, which made it even more confusing. I could not put this book down, even though I had no idea what was going on. It was a hyped type of super-confusion, and I really loved it. You start off by thinking of things one way, then you find out something else, and then everything changes. Even though it’s told in reverse, you still find out new clues and events, so don’t think that it’s boring or predictable—far from it, actually. Jule was such an exciting character at the beginning, and she really drew me into the story. And then I got really confused, and I couldn’t really discern what she was doing or not doing and why. Imogen started off really nice too, and then I have no clue what happened to her. I went through this book in a cloud of confusion. But, I finished the book and I was still hyper-confused, and that’s the problem. I finished this book a week ago, and I still don’t know what happened. I don’t know who killed whom or why. I thought that the conclusion of the book would clarify all the mystery, but it was just as vague and misleading as the rest of the book. This story was so good, all it needed was a clear ending that wrapped up all the loose ends. Perhaps I could have figured out what was going if I had analyzed and annotated this book, but it made no sense to a casual reader. {Just to point it out, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks was kinda strange, too. But I really related to Frankie, especially her little piece about how being important made you feel more secure, more happy, and more free to be yourself.} At the end of the day, Genuine Fraud was a good read, but it left me deeply unsatisfied at the end.