Everything You Want Me to Be: A Novel - Softcover

Mejia, Mindy

3.81

22,603 ratings by Goodreads

9781982113568: Everything You Want Me to Be: A Novel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1982113561 ISBN 13: 9781982113568

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2018

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“Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will devour this fast-paced story.”—InStyle

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?

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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About the Author:

Mindy Mejia is a CPA and a graduate of the Hamline University MFA program. Her debut novel, The Dragon Keeper, was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2012. She lives in the Twin Cities with her family, and is the author of Strike Me Down, Everything You Want Me to Be, and Leave No Trace.

Review:

"A suspenseful and heart-wrenching thriller about ambition, obsession, and what happens when the lies we tell about ourselves become indistinguishable from the truth." Author: Robin Wasserman, author of GIRLS ON FIRE

"For fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Big Little Lies." Source: Book Riot

"An excellent book full of surprises, fans will be thrilled to find that this is one tale that falls into that very slim category of rare 'one-day' reads." Source: Suspense Magazine

"Engaging . . . Readers will look forward to further work from this talented author." Source: Publishers Weekly

"Readers will surely find this unsettling, character-driven descent into secret desires and hidden faces everything they wanted to see from a talented writer and then some." Source: Shelf Awareness

"Twisty . . . a page-turner, and compelling." Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“In all honesty this is one of the best books I’ve read all year of any genre.” Source: Goodreads, 5 Stars

“Absolutely the number one book for 2017 . . . Trust me, you don’t want to miss this amazing story.” Source: Goodreads, 5 Stars

“5 stars.” Source: Goodreads

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