Charlotte Colbert, aka Charlie, is doing great. Really. She's 32, living in NYC, editor-in-chief for a huge magazine, and engaged to a rich, desirable man. She's totally not haunted by the Scarlet Christmas, that time in grad school when one of her classmates had a psychotic break and murdered a bunch of her friends. It's fine that parts of her memory that night are a black hole. Really. Until suddenly there's a movie in the works for the 10th anniversary, and it's being backed by someone else who was there that night. Charlie has purposefully distanced herself from all her old friends, but now she's scared of the blanks in her own mind, and what might be put on film that she can't remember.

The story is told in alternating timelines, but in a really interesting way. Instead of traditional flashbacks, we get Charlie recovering her memories through therapy, and then discussing and processing them after with her therapist. I found this a really cool storytelling device, and enjoyed that it gave us older Charlie's thoughts as well as younger Charlie's in the memories.

I liked Charlie, and her relationship dynamics with everyone were interesting to explore and refreshingly different in some cases. I understood why she made some of the decisions she had, even when I disagreed with them. There were secrets and twists to the events of the Scarlet Christmas that I didn't see coming, which I appreciated, but I would have liked to spend more time with the characters as those things were revealed and after. With the amount of build up earlier in the book it felt like the bombs were dropped and resolved more quickly than I expected.

The blurb for this reminded me of "Luckiest Girl Alive", which I loved, and while I don't think this story will stick with me in exactly the same way, I had a great time reading it. So if you liked "Luckiest Girl Alive", or think you would but it feels too heavy for you, give "Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead" a try! Thank you to NetGalley & the author for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.