Everything You Want Me to Be (Mejia) - Book Reviews

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Ms. Mejia displays the enviable ability and assurance of such contemporaries as Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman in convincingly charting inter-generational passion and angst.
Wall Street Journal


[A] fast read with a bright, clean style. The ending should launch some ferocious debates.
New York Journal of Books


Mejia's novel is full of suspense, intrigue and twists at every turn. The reader is transported into three different worlds as they try to figure out who committed a horrendous crime. Told from three different perspectives, this is a fantastic read that wastes no time in drawing the reader into the story.
Romance Times


Buckle up for this killer mystery in which identity, truth, and self-discovery take some fatal turns.
Bustle


The story occasionally drags, and the murder’s resolution seems almost like an afterthought, but Mejia adroitly charts Hattie’s development. Peter, initially sympathetic, becomes cloying, while Del...emerges as the most compelling...of the trio.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Readers drawn to this compelling psychological thriller because of its shared elements with Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will be pleasantly surprised to discover that Mejia’s confident storytelling pulls those themes into an altogether different exploration of manipulation and identity.
Booklist


There's an attempt at profundity here that falls flat, leaving instead a story we've seen before of a pretty girl who winds up dead and the usual cast of suspects who may have killed her.
Kirkus Reviews