Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead: A Novel

Written by Jenny Hollander

Narrated by Marisa Calin

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true?

Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve—events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"—though Charlie knows she was much more than that.

Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry, and hell-bent on never, ever letting her guard down again. But when a buzzy film made by one of Charlie's former classmates threatens to shatter everything she's worked for, Charlie realizes how much she's changed in nine years. Now, she's not going to let anything—not even the people she once loved most—get in her way.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Feb 6, 2024
• ISBN: 9781250332578

Jenny Hollander

JENNY HOLLANDER is the director of content strategy at Marie Claire, where she oversees the brand's daily coverage, as well as the #ReadithMC book club. Before moving to Marie Claire, she worked at Bustle. A graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, Jenny spent ten years in New York before moving back to her hometown of London. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead is her first novel.

Reviews for Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

[Irina Hartova · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A spineless character with no personal arch. All she does is avoid people and be pushed around .

[Emily Lassiter Branch · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I knew I would have a bit of trouble with this book going into it - I'd just finished my first 5-star book of 2024, and was in a bit of a book hangover from that one. Knowing any book was going to suffer in comparison, I hoped that going to a different genre would help, and it did, to a point. I liked this one, but didn't love it. I thought maybe it was just my book hangover, so skimmed some reviews to see whether it was just me. Apparently it wasn't. Some of the things that hit me a bit wrong did the same with other reviewers. The pacing was a bit off at times - jumping back and forth in time can be tricky and there was a lot of that here. There were a lot of questions that were just left hanging for me - some of them involving some major plot points. On the other hand there are many excellent reviews from people who loved it, so maybe it actually was just me, and I definitely can see why those readers loved it. It just didn't work for me on all levels, yet I wanted to keep listening to find out what really happened on that "Scarlet Christmas" - and it worked enough that I will absolutely be on the lookout for this author's sophomore book. I did listen to it for the most part (read a bit as well) - the narration by Marisa Calin was excellent.
Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for providing copies for an unbiased review.