Everything You Want Me to Be
Mindy Mejia
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Everything You Want Me to Be
Mindy Mejia
1 ratings • 1 reviews
No one knows who she really is… Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she’s found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. It soon comes to light that Hattie was engaged in a highly compromising and potentially explosive secret online relationship. The question is: Did anyone else know? And to what lengths might they have gone to end it? Hattie’s boyfriend seems distraught over her death, but had he fallen so deeply in love with her that she had become an obsession? Or did Hattie’s impulsive, daredevil nature simply put her in the wrong place at the wrong time, leading her to a violent death at the hands of a stranger? 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 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 listened to the audio, and for some reason this "who done it" really hit the spot! It was a little slow toward the beginning: it was super obvious who the other person online was, I doubt that was meant to be a surprise to the reader.
One of the main reasons I enjoyed this book was for the characters--I wanted to dislike Peter because he was Hattie's teacher and because he was cheating on his wife! But I still liked him, and I'm not sure why that was, because he certainly doesn't like himself and because Hattie is so in love with him that it's a given and we don't get much detail about him from her. And Hattie, though I liked her well enough at the start, as time went by and we saw more and more sides to her (masks she wore and acts she put on) I saw pieces that I didn't like, such as her manipulations and somewhat non-emotional assessment of the people in her life. She had moments of practically sociopathic action, where she seemed uninterested in other people's feelings and maybe didn't understand, too.
Also, I was unsure of who the murderer was throughout. I called pretty early that it wasn't Peter, but mostly because I didn't think the author would put the murderer's perspective as 1/3 of the book. I thought it would be Mary--that she'd have seen them together and flew into a rage. Peter's perspective toward the end seemed to confirm it. I know Hattie didn't care that much about her boyfriend Tommy, and therefore we don't get much information about his character, but I didn't see it coming that it was him.
Enjoyed this story and the mystery, want to find another good mystery soon!
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