Everything You Want Me to Be
Ratings6
Average rating3.7
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Ratings6
Average rating3.7
Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront...and she inches closer and closer to her death. High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. When she’s found brutally stabbed to death on the opening night of her high school play, the tragedy rips through the fabric of her small town community. Local sheriff Del Goodman, a family friend of the Hoffmans, vows to find her killer, but trying to solve her murder yields more questions than answers. It seems that Hattie’s acting talents ran far beyond the stage. Told from three points of view—Del, Hattie, and the new English teacher whose marriage is crumbling—Everything You Want Me to Be weaves the story of Hattie’s last school year and the events that drew her ever closer to her death. Evocative and razor-sharp, Everything You Want Me to Be challenges you to test the lines between innocence and culpability, identity and deception. Does love lead to self-discovery—or destruction?
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I really enjoyed this book. The story is told from three different perspectives so you get the full story and not just one POV. And although I love thrillers and mysteries, I can usually figure out the killer or the twist pretty early on. With this one, I genuinely thought I had it figured out about 1/4 of the way in, but I was completely wrong when it was revealed at the end. I actually liked that it hadn't been so easy to pinpoint the killer and that I was able to experience that “wait... what??!” bit of surprise when it was finally revealed. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I really didn't care for the Hattie character at all. Everything about her was awful and she came across as selfish and unsympathetic.
