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Everything You Want Me to Be

Mindy Mejia

Start date: September 1, 2017

Finish date: September 30, 2017

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Jan 23, 2017 Michael rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2017, arc, netgalley

Henrietta Hoffman (better known as Hattie in her small town) wears a lot of hats. Whether it's honor's student near the top of her senior class, the loving daughter of her parents or the dutiful girlfriend. But does anyone really know the REAL Hattie Hoffman?

Mindy Mejia's Everything You Want Me to Be examines a year in the life of Hattie Hoffman as she struggles to find out the role she really wants to play in life. The big problem is that just as Hattie is figuring out who she wants to be, she ...more

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Jan 30, 2017 Cynthia Shannon rated it really liked it

Shelves: work

This book takes place in a small Midwest town called Pine Valley. Everything I know about the Midwest I learned from Fargo (the movie AND the TV series!), so this book helped expand my knowledge (though expand doesn't quite cover it: I still imagine it as very boring, very desolate, which leads people to kill each other). The book did a great job at pacing. Normally alternate POV chapters drive me nuts but this one held it together and moved the story forward (each had their unique voice too, wh ...more

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Jul 11, 2017 Pat rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Very Good Read that help my attention for the 3 days it took me to read it! It reminded me of that Glenn Close movie Fatal Attraction but in the teen scene - what an interesting main character Hattie is. No spoilers, but it is a page turner right to the end!

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