Everything That Makes You
Author: Moriah McStay
Publication Date: March 17th 2015
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
One girl. Two stories. Meet Fiona Doyle. The thick ridges of scar tissue on her face are from an accident twelve years ago. Fiona has notebooks full of songs she’s written about her frustrations, her dreams, and about her massive crush on beautiful uber-jock Trent McKinnon. If she can’t even find the courage to look Trent straight in his beautiful blue eyes, she sure isn’t brave enough to play or sing any of her songs in public. But something’s changing in Fiona. She can’t be defined by her scars anymore.
And what if there hadn’t been an accident? Meet Fi Doyle. Fi is the top-rated female high school lacrosse player in the state, heading straight to Northwestern on a full ride. She’s got more important things to deal with than her best friend Trent McKinnon, who’s been different ever since the kiss. When her luck goes south, even lacrosse can’t define her anymore. When you’ve always been the best at something, one dumb move can screw everything up. Can Fi fight back?
Hasn’t everyone wondered what if? In this daring debut novel, Moriah McStay gives us the rare opportunity to see what might have happened if things were different. Maybe luck determines our paths. But maybe it’s who we are that determines our luck
In the style of Just Like Fate, Everything That Makes You is
cut into two different stories, a what if
scenario, only with Just Like Fate, I actually liked it and though Caroline
made some rash and stupid decisions, you could understand her, sympathise with
her. Fioana and "Fi" not so
much. Wasn't the whole what if scenario
was a way of thinking that if Fiona didn't get her face scarred when she was
younger, she would be a different person?
If Everything That Makes You meant to say, that no matter
what happens to you, you were always meant to be a certain person, then it
succeeded, Because she was a horrible person both ways. If you think I'm being
mean now, hang around a while. Fiona is a spiteful little bitch. There we go.
She's bitter, which okay, you can get, she's bitter at the world, at herself,
she has low self-esteem, given all that: she's still a bitch. To her family, to
her so called friends, to her boyfriend, self deprecating , selfish and
completely takes things for granted. Isn't having something so horrible like
this happen to you, supposed to make you have a real long look at yourself and
see just how strong you are? To make yourself a better person? Even the
"Fi" What If, she was still
like this and because of that, even though we know which part is which, I had a
hard time differentiating the two, and
considering the names are in the chapter
titles, it shouldn't be that hard.
