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EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE IS EVERYTHING YOU WANT A NOVEL TO BE. THIS THRILLING TALE OF A SMALL TOWN MURDER WILL SEDUCE YOU, MANIPULATE YOU, AND STICK WITH YOU.
EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE
High school senior Hattie Hoffman is an actress both on and off the stage. She knows what people want from her and she gives it to them: in an instant, she can play the part of the happy-go-lucky girlfriend, the respectful daughter, the bright student. But underneath those multiple facades is a young woman just yearning to escape her small Minnesota town and follow the bright lights to New York City.
All that changes when she is found brutally stabbed to death.
Told from the points of view of Hattie herself, local sheriff Del Goodman, and the new-to-the-heartland English teacher whose marriage is slowly falling apart, EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman. As the town’s secrets begin to unravel and the tragedy looms closer, author Mindy Mejia presses the reader to demarcate the lines between innocence and culpability and peek between the cracks of true identity and the masks we all wear.
MINDY MEJIA received her MFA from Hamline University. Her debut novel, The Dragon Keeper, was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2012. The granddaughter of Minnesota farmers, she lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and two children.
MY REVIEW:
We see from the point of view of three different people. Hattie, the high school senior actress who continually plays any part as she need to, people pleasing yet manipulating, selfish and calculating, yet just being a teenager and trying to find her place in life. Her obsession and want ultimately leads her death, but with so many people who have motives, who actually did the deed? Peter, the teacher who married young, stuck in a town he doesn't want to be in, with a wife who barely speaks to him and a temptation that eats at him more and more every day. Del, the law officer and family friend of Hattie's parents, trying to put all the pieces together and find the killer before Hattie's father takes the law into his own hands.
There is suspense, deception, manipulation, teen angst, obsession, varying degrees of love, family relationships, obligations and the every day struggle people go through between trying to do what is expected and what should be done and giving into the id and every base desire. What actually makes you happiest in the end and at what cost? I really enjoyed this book - it kept me interested all the way through and the slight twist at the end didn't particularly shock, but I also didn't see it coming and I ran a dozen scenarios through my mind as I read. Recommend for an easy, entertaining suspenseful thriller that keeps you guessing.
PRAISE FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE:
"Tantalizing...Ms. Mejia displays the enviable ability and assurance of such contemporaries as Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman." 
“Mejia’s well-drawn protagonist brings the rural community alive and imbues the narrative with delightful, dry humor.”
“Harrowing.”
"Fans of Gillian Flynn's 'Gone Girl' will devour this fast-paced story."
“In the spirit of The Lovely Bones and Everything I Never Told You…compelling…”
"This eerie thriller tells us, 'Midwestern nice' often masks 'Midwestern vice.'"
"The curse of "Macbeth" meets its match — almost — in Hattie Hoffman, the young femme fatale in Mindy Mejia's cheeky sardonic thriller."
“If even a 10th of the thrillers published in 2017 are as good as ‘Everything You Want Me to Be,’ we’re in for some great reading.” 
“Distinct and compelling.”
PRAISE FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE CONTINUED:
“Mindy Mejia’s evocative and provocative mystery EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE…makes for a sophisticated and wicked whodunit.”
"Mindy Mejia’s new mystery novel is as unconventional as it is satisfying."
“Buckle up for this killer mystery.”
"Engaging."
"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."
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