{"id":42956,"date":"2017-10-22T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=42956"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:49:17","slug":"everything-want-mindy-mejia-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/everything-want-mindy-mejia-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42221\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Everything-You-Want-Me-to-Be-by-Mindy-Mejia-on-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Everything-You-Want-Me-to-Be-by-Mindy-Mejia-on-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/05\/Everything-You-Want-Me-to-Be-by-Mindy-Mejia-on-BookDragon.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>In sleepy Pine Valley, MN, 18-year-old Hattie Hoffman \u2013 beloved daughter, excellent student, best friend, adored girlfriend, talented actress \u2013 lies dead. Solving her gruesome murder is up to local sheriff Del Goodman, a family friend who watched Hattie grow up.\u00a0Her English teacher Peter Lund thought she was one of the small town\u2019s most promising students.<\/p>\n<p>And from these three perspectives \u2013 Hattie narrated by Caitlin Thorburn, Del by John Moraitis, and Peter by Jeff Harding \u2013 the \u201cwho-done-what-to-whom\u201d gets slowly revealed over Hattie\u2019s high school senior year.<\/p>\n<p>With three characters telling the story, a corresponding triumvirate cast makes perfect sense. What\u2019s missing, unfortunately, is a sense of continuity among the narrators so that overlapping characters remain consistently recognizable throughout: boyfriend Tommy, for example, shouldn\u2019t sound like an affable goof from one reader and then resemble a strangely accented thug in another section. As singular narrators, all three readers are competent, with Moraitis the most convincing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Mindy Mejia\u2019s (<em>The Dragon Keeper<\/em>) latest is not a particularly opaque mystery; more seasoned thrill-seekers in search of less predictable fare might look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2017\/10\/media\/audio\/audiobooks-by-berenson-cambron-christie-iles-love-and-mejia-xpress-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Audiobooks: Xpress Reviews,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, October 20, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sleepy Pine Valley, MN, 18-year-old Hattie Hoffman \u2013 beloved daughter, excellent student, best friend, adored girlfriend, talented actress \u2013 lies dead. 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