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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Everything You Want Me to Be - Review

Everything You Want Me to Be     🌟🌟🌟🌟
by Mindy Mijia
Published January 3 2017 by Atria/Emily Bestler Books


Finished 12/24/2016

4.5 stars

Hattie is a high school senior who wants to be a Broadway  actress after she graduates.  She doesn't  feel like she belongs in her small hometown of Pine Valley, Minnesota.  There, she can't be her literary, sophisticated, mature self (you know, prom is just so "high school"), so she is already an actress, playing the parts that everyone wants her to be until she can make her escape  --  best friend, confidante, football player's girlfriend, devoted daughter  -- but she is none of these really.  Perhaps she can only be herself in a chat room she frequents discussing books, which turns into much more. Hattie acts; that what she does best.  And then gets herself murdered.  She really is dead, yet her spirit survives as the sheriff, Del, tries to figure out who did it.

Hattie, Del, and Peter, Hattie's English teacher, give us alternating points of view, before and after the murder.  The author did a great job portraying the inner workings  of these characters as well as with building the tension up to the climax.  You might think you have the ending all figured out, but just wait, and guess again.  

An ARC from NetGalley  and the publisher.





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