*Please Note: This review was written by Joanna Park and posted on her blog Over The Rainbow Blog. If you see it posted elsewhere it has been stolen.
Book Synopsis:
THEY CALL ME THE LUCKY ONE. THEY DON’T KNOW I LIED.
Nine years ago, Charlie Colbert’s life changed for ever.
On Christmas Eve, as the snow fell, her elite graduate school was the site of a chilling attack. Several of her classmates died. Charlie survived.
Years later, Charlie has the life she always wanted at her fingertips: she’s editor-in-chief of a major magazine and engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry.
But when a film adaptation of that fateful night goes into production, Charlie’s dark past threatens to crash into her shiny present.
Charlie was named a ‘witness’ in the police reports. Yet she knows she was much more than that.
The truth about that night will shatter everything she’s worked for. Just how far will she go to protect it?
My Review:
Everybody Who Could Forgive Me Is Dead is a dark, compulsive read that was surprisingly thought provoking.
Firstly I found the characters in this book very intriguing and enjoyed following them throughout the book. They were all quite unlikable characters, who all had secrets and I enjoyed slowly discovering more about them. Charlie was a particularly interesting character who I wasn’t sure how I felt about. On one hand I really felt for her as I learned more about how deeply the incident has affected her and how much it has changed her life but on the other I really didn’t know if I could trust her or her version of events. I had a very uneasy feeling about her and found I had to keep reading as I had to find out more about her.
The story is told in two timelines one following events in the current day and the other flashing back to the night in question. I thought the book started off a little slowly as the author sets the scene and we find out more about the characters but soon picks up and becomes very hard to put down. The author does a great job of cleverly withholding information from the reader until the end so I was never completely sure what was going to happen next. There were lot of surprising twists that kept me guessing and although I did guess the ending it didn’t detract from my overall enjoyment of the book.
This is author’s debut novel and I’d definitely be interested in reading more from her in the future. Huge Thanks to Beth from Little Brown for sending me a copy of this book. If you like thrillers that make you think then I highly recommend this one.
About The Author:
Hi! I’m Jenny, a writer and editor from London. My debut novel, EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD, will be published by St. Martin’s Press (US) and Little, Brown (UK) on February 6, 2024.
My work has been featured in ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Bustle, Harper’s Bazaar, and more. I spent ten years in New York, where I worked as a senior editor for Bustle and the deputy editor at Marie Claire. Now the digital director for Marie Claire, I live in London with my husband and our rescue dog, Captain. When I’m not knee-deep in Google Analytics, an edit, or a manuscript, I’m a fierce advocate for developmental coordination disorder, known in the U.K. as dyspraxia, which I was diagnosed with when I was nine.
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