You Will Never Be Me
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Influencer Meredith Lee didn’t teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became big. So can anyone blame her for doing a little stalking? Can anyone blame her for swiping one of Aspen’s kids iPads and accessing all of her social media accounts? Yes, she then starts tweaking things here and there, showing up in Aspen’s place for meetings with potential sponsors, but she’s only taking back what she deserves—what should have been hers.
Meanwhile, Aspen has no idea why her perfect life is falling apart. Sponsors are dropping her, fellow influencers are ghosting her, and even her own husband seems to find her repulsive. If she doesn’t find out who’s behind everything, she might just lose it all. But when her old mom-tor Meredith goes missing, Aspen’s world is upended and mysterious threats begin to arrive—but she won’t let anything get in the way of her perfect life again.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
it’s just a fact of life that people adore the knowledge of having something that others don’t. If there was no pleasure to be taken from exclusivity, then the rich wouldn’t be so into their private country clubs. There is joy from knowing you are blessed while others are not; if you deny it, you’ll only be lying.
Sometimes, I look at Liv and I hate her because the world hasn’t broken her yet.
It was like I walked into a stark, white room filled with nothing but a tiny, high-pitched sound. A room of cold, quiet, murderous rage.
Oh my god. Spare me the Gaslighting 101, okay? None of that ‘I’m sorry you feel that way’ crap. No, you need to be sorry that you made me feel that way.
My Review:
This clever tale was full of gasp-producing zigs and eye-popping zags. I had a hard time putting my Kindle down and felt like hissing at any interruption to my rapt perusal. I greedily devoured it like a guilty pleasure, but the ending left me pondering, contemplating, and debating for quite some time about how I should feel about the outcome. Hmm… What does that say about me?
The characters were all rather vile and selfish creatures, who were deliciously and insightfully detailed with well-honed and witty narratives of their inner musings and self-serving observations and justifications.
You Will Never Be Me was my virgin voyage with this crafty scribe and I instantly fell into an oddly compelling vortex of an online Stepford-type wife. Ms. Sutano has strong word voodoo, mad skills, and a new acolyte. I covetously want to amass all her scribblings.
