You Will Know Me Megan Abbott Pdf
Information technology'due south hard to explain. Abbott writes nearly quiet people politics and the small details that all add upwardly to something bigger. Suspense hums beneath the surface, turning the nearly mundane events into something darker, something more than meaningful. She narrates real life and even so keeps you on the border of your seat. You Will Know Me is a murder mystery, and withal it is mostly about a family that revolves around its anchor - a gymnastics prodigy called Devon. Like all my favourite mystery/thriller writers (Tana French, Gillian Flynn, etc.), Abbott makes her stories about so much more than the mystery. If yous judge the truth - as you might hither - it doesn't matter. It'southward well-nigh the whys, the hows, the intricate details and label. I think the telltale sign of a actually skillful thriller is when the "whodunnit" can exist spoiled and the volume is still worth reading. Into their world comes a decease - a expiry that could very well be a murder. Information technology shakes their tight-knit community and brings many secrets to the surface. Every bit everything unravels, it becomes clear that the Knox family unit might non know each other that well at all. You Will Know Me is an adult volume about a murder, just again Abbott demonstrates where she really shines: in portraying that nasty, psychotic lilliputian globe of teenage girls. How difficult it is, how much information technology hurts, how cruel they are to 1 another. Information technology'south simply real life, later on all, only the writing simmers with a barely-suppressed mania. Depression cocky-esteem, desire, jealousy, sex activity, confusion... add some superlative-level ambition to the teenage girl pot and information technology's piece of cake to see how this normal part of life can plow dark in an instant. Abbott captures it perfectly and convincingly, writing cute, simple footling moments, filled with meaning: And, for me, Megan Abbott is one of the best. Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube | Store "And so many things you lot never think you'll exercise until yous do them."
four 1/2 stars. I'g just going to say it: Megan Abbott is one of my favourite authors. I've read iii of her books and I've loved iii of her books. I get it - her writing isn't for everyone; but it's for me. Holy shit, is it for me. That's what parenthood was about, wasn't it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn't yours anymore merely herself.
The Knox family are at the centre of this tale. In that location'due south Katie - a female parent overwhelmed by her changing daughter; Eric - a father obsessed with helping his daughter achieve her dreams; Drew - an oftentimes-neglected male child who notices more anyone realizes; and Devon herself - a teenage girl caught up in the intense, competitive world of elite gymnasts. He'd never woken upwardly, and the only sound at present was his breathing, hoarse and ragged. For a 2d she thought she saw his lashes lift, the white of 1 middle looking at her, but she was wrong.
It is not what it's almost, but how the story is told. In fact, the more I read, the more I come up to think that'south e'er the case. Writing pretty words into sentences is something that can be learned in a writing grade, but existence a proficient storyteller, similar natural charisma, is something yous simply have a knack for, or you don't.
Ok, and then Megan Abbott and I take a flake of history. I've not read her noir books, so my first read of hers was The Cease of Everything. I was so blown away by that 1 that I couldn't wait to pick upwardly Dare Me; I'thou not sure if it was just me or the book, just I was and then disappointed in myself for non loving information technology. I moved along to reading The Fever next, but didn't rush out for it immediately; thankfully I enjoyed that one more than the previous but it still didn't live up to TEOE for me. Needless to say, I was a teensy bit afraid of picking upwards You Volition Know Me. What if I connected to be in the minority that wasn't diddled away by every volume she wrote? Lucky for me, I not only picked this i up only enjoyed it so thoroughly that I'1000 convinced it'southward her best volume even so! For some reason the cliquish globe of gymnastics has always fascinated me; perhaps because I was told at the historic period of 5 that I'd never be a gymnast due to my height and was an unattainable goal for myself. It has always been my favorite sport in the Olympics to watch, and so much so that I used to make a balance beam out of pillows to walk along while watching. Take that dream burdensome gymnastic instructors! Whatever the case, this book had me hooked from the very beginning, and it wasn't just the suspense behind the mystery, just the development of the characters. Abbott does a fantastic job of giving you the willies in the simplest of ways; it's like creeping unease is her 2nd language and I want more. This story was so perfectly written that I feel like the mystery actually takes a backseat to more than important themes, like the fiscal hardships of parents that give everything to support such a fragile dream, or the dynamics of how one kid tin can become front and middle while another suffers the consequences of neglect and thwarting. I was truly moved by how real and relatable Million's writing is; she had me on a roller coaster of emotions from beginning to end. I really loved how uncomplicated this cover is; there is null distracting or attending seeking nigh it, yet your eye is slowly fatigued in to explore what might be going through that immature daughter'south heed. Clearly there is a similar theme in Abbott's books which revolve around teenage girl's and their antics, but equally many other reviewers have stated, this 1 is from a new perspective-the mother of a teenage daughter. Every bit the female parent of two immature girls, I appreciated (and was slightly terrified of) the insights of what is to come for myself in the somewhat near future; I found myself going off on tangents wondering what I would do in these situations if i of my daughters were in a position of such force per unit area during such a crucial time in a girl'south life. Megan Abbott has created something really special in this book, and I recollect she's completely won me over with her charm and suspense. Worth the fourth dimension and energy spent reading it, I'd recommend to fans who like a novel of suspense with much deeper subject affair than your everyday thriller. *I'd like to give thanks NetGalley for providing my copy and it was my pleasure to return an honest review.
Existence a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder. i think i'yard gonna become alee and give this five stars after all. considering, confession fourth dimension - as far as her not-noir stuff goes, i didn't love her terminal ii (Dare Me and The Fever) as much as i loved The End of Everything. i didn't dislike them by whatsoever means (although many readers did), but i thought that while they excelled in their depiction of the darker aspects of teenage girlhood, as do all her books, the surrounding stories weren't as strong every bit the one in The End of Everything, so equally overall reading experiences they were a little shaky, but with these amazingly abrupt scenes, descriptions, observations that were more than than worth the price of admission. this i, however, does both: it's another exploration of the claustrophobic, secretive, grubbily emotional earth of female adolescence, and Likewise an amazing domestic suspense novel. and by approaching the theme from a different bending this time; from the POV of the female parent of a teenaged girl, abbot puts a little spin on basis familiar to her readers; a fresh perspective on the transition of girl to woman from a graphic symbol who has both been there herself and is now witnessing it in her daughter. That's what parenthood was near, wasn't it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn't yours anymore merely herself. this book features an ordinary couple - katie and eric knox, whose fifteen-year-old girl devon is a gymnast so gifted she actually has a shot at the olympics. oh, and they have a son, also, simply drew's not an accomplished gymnast, so he gets disregarded a lot. by them, anyway - doing his homework and reading books in gym bleachers where he is shuttled and dumped, all their attending focused on devon'southward contortions and ambitions. the book, nevertheless, does not overlook him, and his quiet resignation and patience are among the well-nigh emotionally resonant scenes in the book, while his status as spectator allows him to observe many things the rest of the family misses while their attending is elsewhere. this has all the familial tensions you wait to encounter in a domestic thriller - murrrrrderrrr, suspicion, temptation, secrets, an overfamiliarity with spousal habits making deviations from the norm stand out and cause apprehension... but and so there's this extra layer of tension slapped on height considering of the item stresses, both financial and emotional, of being the parents of a high-performing child in a hyper-competitive environment where an injury could literally ruin the family, who have given up so much to the pursuit of devon'due south dream. because this path involves a ton of cede. about of katie and eric's fourth dimension is spent taking devon to practice or competitions, reviewing the footage of her performances, and fundraising for the never-ending stream of registration fees, gym dues, costumes, coaching, travel expenses, etc, while their house and machine slowly fall apart around them. like the cheerleading in Dare Me, gymnastics is a perfect microcosm for abbott to eviscerate with her skillful picking apart of girl-culture and relationships. it'due south a precarious path these girls are on, where a tenth of a signal can brand or break a career and in that location'due south such a small window of opportunity available to gymnasts, before gravity and puberty cease their careers, so there's this intensity to everything they exercise. they are in a state of suspended animation, where hips and boobs are liabilities, and their bodies are machines to manipulate and propel similar weapons. normal standard of beauty do non apply - torn-up and heavily calloused hands and feet are not only par for the course, but valued, and the gymnasts have fe wills, extreme abilities to suppress hurting, and a ferocious drive, giving them an adult focus in their teeny gymnast bodies. That was what gymnastics did, though. It anile girls and kept them immature forever at the same time. abbot thrusts the reader into a full immersion into this globe, and it is incredibly effective. the book is primarily delivered through katie's perspective, and then information technology's technically an outsider's experience, but she'due south supplanted and so much of her own life to focus on devon's career, she'south as tunnel-visioned as devon, and the scene where she goes to devon'south school and sees her, for the start time in ages, among regular teens instead of other gymnasts, is shockingly powerful. abbott is so good at writing dread, at giving even innocuous situations a coat of unease. it takes a long fourth dimension for the death - the situation that drives the novel - to happen, but everything leading upwards to it - you tin can just feel things starting to chimera and at that place are all these heavy indications of approaching tragedy. it's masterful. fifty-fifty when Nothing tense is happening, abbot can brand information technology feel so: He'd never woken up, and the just sound now was his breathing, hoarse and ragged. For a 2d she thought she saw his lashes lift, the white of one eye looking at her, just she was incorrect. and her depictions of the other gymnastics-stage-moms - hilaaaarious: Perhaps it was all those arched backs, those manicured nails gripping h2o bottles, their glossy manes, the high, whinnying sounds they made, their beady eyes. It reminded her of the hyenas in Drew'southward favorite creature book. They have excellent nighttime vision and hearing. True. They have powerful jaws and sharp teeth that they apply to break open bones so they can feed. Also possibly true. so, yes - full v stars and a wicked disjointed review for this one, simply to differentiate it as being tighter and more cohesive than those other books i gave four stars to merely was really but feeling three-and-a-half. and i just now realized i just gave 4 stars to The Stop of Everything. whatever - i suck at math.
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No on writes nigh the intersections between teenage girls, ambition, bodies, and obsession better than Megan Abbott. Her voice is distinct throughout this novel. Tight, taut, tense, terrifying. You Will Know Me is both a portrait of a family who put their talented gymnast daughter at the center of their world, and how ambition is the matter that holds them together and tears them apart. The words in this novel are like weapons and Abbott wields them very well.
Katie and Eric Knox know no bounds when it comes to their extra-special gymnast girl, Devon. Every thing goes to Devon and her amazing talent. That extra mortgage? No biggie. Smoozing with the richie bowwow down the street. Par for the course. Devon is a star. That's all that matters. And then for Devon herself. This immature girl is a frigging robot. She is near to turn xvi and knows that the worst thing ever is virtually to happen. She is about to get some boobs and curves. This is her last shot at those ever elusive Olympics. This girl just comes across to me as a freaking robot. She doesn't care if anybody is making fun of her. They are all just jealous of her amazing life. Then a death happens. Then many twisty turns. That my silly 'read too many of these type books' self figured out. Abbott's writing did go along me reading. I loved seeing all the nighttime sides of all these hyper-sorta nutty people. From my personal viewpoint I knew that this was a glimpse into a life that I only can't imagine, considering I just don't know if I take enough of that pageant mom mentality. Information technology was a dang fun glimpse into it though. At that place was non enough space in her eye. Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
She is the only 1 in their gym group who will ever go anywhere. 
Her heart was different.
She was different.
If you like your mystery book to have no mystery at all and then this is information technology. Not memorable. Wouldn't recommend.
I started this book at the perfect time, often turning the pages as my girl sat watching Olympic gymnastics. I'yard glad that she is able to picket these incredible performances and that these potent, determined athletes are an inspiration to her. I'chiliad as well quietly thankful that sports are recreational for my children. I sympathize that there are those children who are single-minded when it comes to their sport of choice. I as well know there are those who excel beyond reason. I suppose with the right combination of desire, ambition, and back up, those children can somewhen compete at the highest level merely not without tremendous sacrifice, time, money, blood, sweat, and tears. This book seems to provide believable insight into the world of elite athletic contest. It was a decent vacation read, but it took a long time to go where it was going. There was some tension, but this was non a thriller. I found the story arc difficult to buy into because I needed more insight into the thoughts feelings of two extremely important characters. I institute Devon too flat and Eric strangely peripheral for a primal character. I expect much of what was left out was done so purposefully to create mystery, but in the stop I just didn't believe it. I kept picking it up and it held my interest for much of the book only this 1 will be filed nether forgettable. 2.v stars
The 2016 Summer Olympics are getting ready to start this calendar week, and afterwards reading this I'll exist leery of whatsoever heartwarming features about athletes and their families because it seems similar they won't scratch the surface of the cost it probably took on all of them to go there. Devon Knox is an boggling young gymnast with a real risk to become an Olympian, and her parents, Katie and Eric, accept fabricated this goal the focus of their entire lives. Even so, the shocking decease of someone connected to their gym causes a disruption that unveils secrets, lies, jealousies, and manipulations that threaten to undo everything. As with her other recent novels Megan Abbott once once again uses a properties dominated by adolescent girls every bit the footing for the story, but this one has a more decidedly adult bespeak of view with most of the story told to us via Katie'southward tertiary party perceptions. As a mother who has sacrificed enormous amounts of time, attempt, and money to back up Devon no ane could question her dedication, but Katie sometimes worries about what their relentless pursuit of this single dream has toll their family including the often disregarded younger brother Drew. The book digs deeply into the whole sub-culture of gymnastics and creates the surround and characters so vividly that the reader is completely immersed in it. Whether information technology'southward explaining how a minor misstep can hurt a score or describing the various injuries common to the girls it all feels incredibly accurate. Explaining that world to u.s. is probably the easiest challenge Mighty Megan had in this one considering over again it'due south her incredible knack for putting u.s.a. in the head of a conflicted character who has to face up up to some ugly truths where the book really shines because that's where information technology asks how much you tin know someone else even if they're the ones closest to you. I especially similar the theme about greatness requiring cede and the questions that go explored regarding that thought. Devon might be able to practise something that very few tin, merely does that mean she should have had to surrender a normal childhood and teenage experiences? Is she doing this because it's her dream or because and so many adults effectually her take their own reasons for wanting her to succeed? Should the Knoxes have defended so much of themselves towards a single goal of one child, or does a parent of a child with an boggling talent take a responsibility to do anything to see it fulfilled? This might be the best book that Megan Abbott has done, and it's because of the way that she weaves all that together in a story that is crime story, family drama, and reflections on the existent cost of the pursuit of excellence in nearly any endeavor.
I took forever to finish this book .....which tin be read in a 24-hour interval. For starters....it's possible I come to this story - the world of competitive gymnasts - And then....I came to this book with 'already' pre-thoughts..... Gymnastics was the but activity I wouldn't let my children to 'take classes' in. If they wanted to flip bomb in our back thou - they could do it on their ain time---( which they both did) They were born with prophylactic-band flexible genes.....but I was SO CLEAR -- our family was not going near THAT WORLD. I ask....."why do families want to live like the KNOX Family ... in "You Volition Know Me" Sounds exhausting.... doesn't information technology? However - many of us ( even without a gymnast in the family) -- if we raised children can relate to this exhaustion and crazy-ness on some level. Well-nigh parents - all of united states - have been guilty of this fast life with our children - swim meets- theater - work - etc. Hopefully - we've besides stepped back and laughed at ourselves and slowed downwards at times too. Taken complete breaks from the scheduled life. There were some adept messages -- (in this story) Then... there are all the messages - about the cost- the risk of putting a family on the fast tract competitive railroad train... other siblings are left out - family meal fourth dimension and leisure time goes out the window. The marriage tin suffer... health and well being - for everyone tin can suffer. If not immediately...in due time. As for the mystery- pretty predictable....but... 3.five
I only 'came dorsum' to 'humor myself' with this $1.99 special during those times I was relaxing in our sauna. I save sauna/Kindle reads for those books I'm not dying to finish-- if it takes me half-dozen weeks -- makes no deviation to me.
So... this was a chosen 'sauna-read'. ( always on my quondam Kindle which still works even in a hot box).
with a unlike middle than the reader who accept only been fascinated in watching
the Olympic gymnasts - from afar - on their Television receiver sets.
I grew upwardly every bit a competitive gymnast. I competed at the elite level - taking first place all-around in Calif. two years in a row.
Dissimilar Deven, though, ....the gymnast in 'this' story....I didn't take parents like she did.
All the other girls on my team did. I was the pocket-size 'orphan -type' gymnast. My mother never 'once' saw me compete.... and my male parent wasn't live......but I practice know this world--the way the judging works - the hours of dedication -each 24-hour interval in a gym. 'The culture'
My personal biggest beef with the sport of 'serious' gymnastics....is "when it's over, it's over".....and then what? At least in Lawn tennis, or swimming, or running- and other sports --- they acquit into adult fourth dimension recreation and practise.
Or....if a child spends more time playing an musical instrument- its lifetime- or more time studying academics....developing a true natural dearest of learning....it too volition be lifetime...
BUT.... ask 'any' serious die-hard kid gymnast - if when it was over - years of tunnel vision dedication- pulled ligaments and bloody palms - if they didn't hit a wall of at least minor low when they woke up and realized there is a WHOLE NORMAL WORLD .... and they haven't been living it.
A hunger to learn new things began to open for me - ( and anger). I spent years aroused at myself for investing so much time to a sport that leads nowhere. Later about thirty- years of distant from the sport -- I came to more balance thinking -- and really best-selling the hard work I 'did' do. I was extremely dedicated -loved the girls on our team and our jitney. I was able to finally realized that - in my case - gymnastics was 'all' I had ....(the team and family experience was stronger than at dwelling)...
I was finally able to stop existence aroused at myself - and love that kid who found 'something' when home life was pretty empty. Plus...I was expert at information technology. I was actually adept at 'something'...which past the way nobody in serious contest takes time to feel. All gymnasts see is what they can meliorate on. [more-better-perFECT]. In that location is always something to better on. Acknowledge themselves?....you've got too be kidding...their critical heed is much too dominant. Pretty sorry when you think about information technology.
....then I read it - when I did during sauna breaks ....information technology was all very familiar'.
A 'little' re-visit of memories was 'enough'.
only then our older daughter got serious in 'some other world'...Theater/ musical theater -- ( she is an adult contortionist), She also became an equity extra at age 9. Oh well!
.....an excerpt to prove my point:
"She couldn't remember the final dark they'd gone to bed at the aforementioned time. Eric working 50 hours a calendar week. Katie working twenty-v from home, creating commercial logos, designing annual reports on her overloaded computer between carpooling, car repairs, more errands. They had such a meticulously coordinated schedule, calendars synced, popular-up reminders, both of them always needed somewhere and then always coming home to the rest of information technology. All their duties hung similar heavy raiment over them all the time, only the sight of Devon spearing into the air lifting them up".
Ane being -- the goal you lot are so trying to accomplish may plough out to 'not' be satisfying!!! Shocker to discover - and hard to face up the truth virtually information technology. - yet... a powerful message all the same!
The storytelling flows .....
and....
The strength is the dynamics between the family'south story ( messages to pull from them) -and the within world of competitive gymnastics. Community warm? or Cutting throat?
I'd rate this iii.five stars. While the so-called "mystery" part of this book held about as much suspense as whether Ryan Lochte and his swimming compatriots were actually robbed at gunpoint in Rio, You Will Know Me further cemented Megan Abbott'due south talent as one of the best creators of mean girls (and adults, for that matter) that is currently writing. "And so gymnastics became the eye, the mighty spine of everything for them." Katie and Eric Knox have given nearly everything in pursuit of their daughter Devon's dreams of condign a gymnastics superstar. Merely while many parents would let their children'southward dreams override whatsoever semblance of a normal life for their family unit, Devon isn't just whatever aspiring gymnast—her coach believes she tin can brand information technology all the mode to the Olympics. So do the other parents whose children do in the same gym Devon does—they know their children only orbit effectually the planetary force Devon represents and hope that simply being in her presence and watching her might pay off. Katie and Eric barely have a infinitesimal for their "real" lives exterior of practices, coaching sessions, and meets. Fortunately their precocious young son Drew is content to watch his sister and occupy himself, then he doesn't announced to mind that he play second fiddle to his sister. And while Katie is the ane who spends near of her time shuttling Devon back and forth, Eric has taken an increased role as caput of the gym'south booster club, and isn't agape to use his handsome charm when necessary to get things he wants for the gym, especially when they could bear upon Devon's chances of success. And and so the sudden death of a fellow member of their shut-knit gym family throws them all for a loop, and threatens to disrupt Devon's progress toward the tournament for which she has been practicing, which in turn, causes ripples for the other girls and their families. Eric tries to take charge and do what's best for Devon and, by extension, the gym, simply Katie starts to wonder if all of that effort, all of the hungry ambition is worth it. Is it worth turning these immature girls into women while their bodies don't catch up? Is information technology worth all of the sacrifice, the injure, the fears, the destruction of people's lives? "That was what gymnastics did, though. It aged girls and kept them young forever at the same time." The more rumors swirl effectually the gym community, the more Katie tries to figure out just what happened and what, if whatever role her hubby played in the tragedy, while hoping non to discover the actual answers. Simply as she gets to see the full scope of Devon's ambitions, and all that people will do to ensure their star reaches the heights they believe she is destined for, Katie doesn't know whether to be repulsed or to root for her daughter with all of her might. Especially in the midst of the 2016 Olympic Games, this book was definitely intriguing, and it's probably a lot more realistic than information technology might seem at first glance. Abbott created a particularly odious grouping of characters, most of whom had slightly noble intentions but lost them somewhere along the way. (Those who aren't utterly unlikable are pretty freaking clueless.) This is the third of Abbott'southward books I've read (after Dare Me and The Fever ) which boasts such a motley, well-drawn crew of miscreants. While this book is certainly entertaining, every bit I mentioned earlier, you can encounter the resolution of the "mystery" coming from a mile away. I guess if this volume hadn't been peddled so hard as a mystery I might not have cared, simply that was the one piece of the book that didn't piece of work for me. This was a fairly fascinating and timely look at the single-minded pursuit of dreams and simply how far people would go, but it didn't grab me as much every bit I hoped information technology would. Even so, this is a slightly creepy await at the group remember of helicopter parents and people who alive vicariously through their children's accomplishments. Peradventure y'all'll recognize someone you know in 1 of the characters—I certainly did! See all of my reviews at http://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blo....
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