Love books about girls with a dark side, and Megan does it so well. I probably won't be recommending this book since it's backlist now but I did enjoy it.

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Thanks so much to the publisher and to NetGalley for giving me access to this book. Meg Abbott does a great job of writing teenage/family drama. I found that this book grabbed my attention and kept me focused until the last page. I will be recommending this book to my patrons.

It's easy to see why this book has exploded all over the place! This was a good mystery, and I enjoyed that there was such a focus on each of the characters and their parents. It showed everybody's dark side, which made it all the more enjoyable to reach the conclusion.

First, I'd like to apologize for my only providing you with feedback on this book just now. I did start it back in its pre-release days but put it down as I was having difficulty engaging with it. It was my intention to pick it up and give it another go in short order but, for reasons I can no longer recall if I'm honest, that didn't happen. Today I read 10% and found that I was still not able to get into the book as I would've liked. It's very well-written but I'm finding that it feels like it's more of an introduction to the world of gymnastics and that nothing at all is happening with the characters. At this point, I've decided that it probbaly isn't the best fit for me.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to review this book. Aplogies that it didn't work out and for the lack of timely feedback.

RATING: 3 STARS
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I was excited to read this book, as I was seeing this book everywhere. I decided to try this one on audio and found it well done. The plot was interesting, but I found the suspense and the story a bit lacking. I would definitely try another novel by Abbott.

***I received an eARC from NETGALLEY***

You Will Know Me is the story of what happens when a family dedicates everything to their child to only have a scandal rock their world. Katie and Eric Knox seem to have the perfect family with a daughter, Devon, who is a gymnastics prodigy and a young son named Drew who seems to be in the background more but tends to notice everything around him. It takes one night for a death close to the family to shake everyone up in the town that leads to who did it and why. As Katie puts the pieces together of what has been really going on behind her back, Drew fills in the missing pieces in a shocking conclusion to how far will you go to protect your family.

This book had me intrigued from the first page but I have to admit that I really got into this book, I didn't really like the characters but it kept me interested enough to see how it all ends. I felt that Katie and Eric are a little too pushy and just stayed together for the sake of Devon when they should have called it quits a long time ago. I could see why Devon did what she did and you could feel for her a little bit

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this ARC of You Will Know Me.

Devon Knox has a gift, a gift that seems to only be enhanced by the tragic accident of losing toes as a child. She is a skilled gymnast with Olympic potential and her and her parents will stop at nothing to achieve their dreams.

But everything comes to a jarring halt when Ryan, a young supporter of the gymnastics community is violently killed. Was it intentional? And amidst all of the competition and jealousy, it could be any number of people.

Okay, this had SO much potential, and I really got into it, and then it ended and I was so disappointed. If you were to do this book for a book club though, you could have a great discussion about how to navigated a prodigy child who could break records. Achievement vs. regular childhood and life. Which one is more important?

I’m no stranger to author Megan Abbott. She’s one hell of a writer. Love all of her books especially this one. I definitely recommend everything she does!

Always love Megan Abbott. This will be one of our book options for April. All five stars.

Thanks to netgalley for the opportunity to have read this great book.
Devon Knox is a gymnastics prodigy and her parents have to support her through all the competitions and progress. This unfortunately causes her parents a lot of heartache and stress to cope with the growing debt. It was interesting to see how they cope with her expectations and where Devon ends up going in her sport. Worth the time.

This was a fun read! The author weaved the thrilling story with the world of competitive gymnastics. The pacing of the story was done very well.

Nothing was specifically wrong with this book, I just didn't find it interesting.

This was a real "it's not you, it's me" reading situation - I could appreciate that propulsiveneness of Ms. Abbot's writing and she creates a semi-believable world populated by tightly coiled springs but, in the end, it all just fell kind of flat for me. Perhaps the foreshadowing is laid with too heavy a hand, perhaps it's that the characters are a bit cookie cutter, or maybe, for me, the adult reading a YA novel thing has finally reached the end of the road. In any case, I wouldn't recommend.

Sadly I didn't care for this book. I think it was just the subject. I found the writing to be good in fact that kept me reading farther than I would have. I look forward to the author's future work

Whoa. This book was really interesting. Unputdownable. I'd read it again!

Devon Knox had an accident as a young child that resulted in the amputation of a few toes on her foot. But that has not stopped her from being the rising star in gymnastics. She trains for hours every day on top of keeping up good grades. She is determined to be in the elite, then on to the Olympics. Her parents are buried in debt but they are taking the risk for the chance of their daughter to be an Olympian. They fear the puberty that could come any day, the high risk that everything could be ruined by one tiny mistake in a routine, and that one small mistake could cause an injury that can't be bounced back from. But they face it all to make Devon a household name.

But one night, something goes terribly wrong in their small gymnastics community and it is another name that is spoken in every household.

It took me over 2 weeks to read this book because I dreaded picking it back up. The characters lacked depth and I could not establish any kind of connection with any of them. The parents, Eric and Katie, were immature, narcissistic, and oblivious. They consistently ignored their son, Drew, in order to focus on themselves or mostly on their oldest daughter, Devon. Drew, however, was written to not mind being ignored and to be very laid back. He "understood" the attention that had to go to Devon and "never had a problem with it". Not only did it come across as very unrealistic but it also came across as useless. Devon did not demand attention outside of the gymnastics gym, rather she kept to herself and kept secrets. Devon clearly favored her father and (in somewhat of a juvenile retaliation) her mother, Katie, stuck to Drew. Poor Drew developed Scarlet Fever and still received little attention from his family.  His mother even left him alone in the car and then revealed that it was not the first time she had done that.  She had left him in the car because she had forgotten he was even in there when he was much younger.  They put Devon into a fellow gymnast's home (read: mansion) so she wouldn't catch what Drew had.  The fellow gymnast whose mother footed the bill for the renovations to the gymnastics training center. This mother, Gwen, footed the bill after much wining and dining with Devon's father, Eric, so that his daughter could improve with better equipment. Oh, and Gwen's daughter, Lacey, could also improve. But no one would ever be as good as Devon!

Not only were the characters a disappointment but the writing was also hard to appreciate, in my opinion. The plot did not flow well, neither did the chapters. There were snippets of paragraphs that seemed to be copied and pasted to piece together a chapter rather than being more fluid. There were even paragraphs that could have been "pasted" together and it would have flowed better. It was jagged and frustrating to read. Furthermore, there was a lot of repetition for minor details that came across as redundant to me. Katie's ringtone being the same song that Devon has a floor routine to, saying "I love him so much!", are just two examples. I have heard many great things about Megan Abbott and, as a result, had looked forward to receiving an ARC of this book. I cannot say that I would have that same excitement in the future.

I would not recommend this book. I think I have made that very clear. Furthermore, I would certainly not recommend this book for those who may be sensitive to foul language, violence, tumultuous relationships, murder, manipulation, parental neglect, and sexually suggestive scenarios.

Devon Knox is a teenage gymnastics super star trying to make her way to the Olympics. Her parents, Eric and Katie, would do anything and everything necessary to help Devon achieve her dreams (with little brother, Drew, along for the ride). When the boyfriend of one of the gym's coaches is killed in a hit and run accident, things begin to spiral out of control for the Knox family and the entire gym.

Having always had an interest in the world of competitive gymnastics, I was really excited to read this thriller which gives you an inside view of what it's really like in this world for both the athletes and their families. The drive and ambition that the gymnasts have coupled with the sacrifices made by their families makes for an intense and fully-developed read. While the "mystery" was very heavily hinted at and easily guessed (if you're paying attention), I was still glued to this story from beginning to end. It wasn't the mystery so much as Megan Abbott's writing that had me hooked.

Megan Abbott has a real talent for making you feel immersed in the world of her characters that are deep, intense, and well developed. I look forward to reading some of Ms. Abbott's other work.

This is the first book I have read of Megan Abbott's and I am certain I will read her other works. I liked the style of the writing as well as what this story was about. It is hard to give a review without giving away details or the storyline. If you like thrillers mixed with hormonal teen girls and competitive moms this one will be a winner.

I really enjoyed this book and tossed up between three and four stars for a long time. I enjoyed the twists that I was taken on as a reader, especially when it was revealed to us who was guilty of the crime, only to have it turn around once more. I also liked it how we were made to feel the pressure that young Devon was under by not just her parents and coach but by the rest of the gym community. It really does go to show how far you would go to protect your children.