Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Nine years ago, Charlie was one of the survivors of what the press dubbed the "Scarlet Christmas," a vicious attack and massacre at her graduate school on Christmas Eve. She refused to talk to anyone other than the police about what happened that afternoon in the "pods." Since then, she's been living a double life, trying to forget her past, living day-to-day as if she's a new person, engaged to a publishing heir and a successful career woman herself, when she's struggling inside. But she can't keep it together any longer when an old classmate announces they're making a movie about that day. Suddenly Charlie must confront what happened head-on, even if it destroys her. And it just might.
This book is told along two timelines, both from Charlie's POV: Now (present day) and Then (the months leading up to the Scarlet Christmas).
Can a book released in February already be in the running for best book of the year? Well, must be, because this one certainly is! I couldn't put it down! There's just so much suspense, I was absolutely just tearing through pages by the end, desperately wanting to know what was going to happen. I had my theories, but man, there were some twists I couldn't have seen coming. Holy crap! That's all I'll say.
Anyway, the atmosphere is fantastic and perfect for both timelines, both of which were incredibly well written and very interesting. I don't know which one I was into more, TBH. We have sex, lies, murder, college students, New York City, rich, pretentious people, it's all here! How can you not be pulled in? Like I said, I was absolutely into the whole thing from start to finish.
Plus, Charlie is the ultimate unreliable narrator. Throughout the slowly start to see her lose her grip on reality and that tension is just palpable. It's like you can cut it with a knife.
So, yes, go out and get this book, like yesterday. It'll be your next obsession!
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