Trauma. Anxiety. Stress. Any and/or all of these three things can really screw with your memory. Any and/or all three of these things can erase memories too (temporarily and permanently). You may never even know you lost memories until someone makes you aware something is missing. You know what that can lead to? Panic. 

This what Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead feels like: Panic, manic, fevered, desperate, even grasping and clamoring as it shoots off like a pinball machine and bounces back and forth, up and down, around and over from beginning to end as Charlie, our protagonist, tries to keep the truth about the worst night of her life from coming out. 

Author Jenny Hollander does a terrific job making this tightly-wound and fast-paced thriller feel just as high-strung, helpless, and spiraling as Charlie feels. As a reader, I can tell you I felt just as stressed out as Charlie did as Hollander switched between then and now, giving us glimpses of what happened on the fateful night that made Charlie and her friends infamous and letting us ride along while Charlie takes ever-increasingly desperate steps to try and stop a film based on those events from being made because she’s afraid of the truth coming out. There’s just too much at stake. 

It’s not a perfect book but it’s a really good thriller read. I totally recommend it.  

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