Friend Request: The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year

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As Louise tries to find out who’s behind the request and the chilling messages that follow, she’s drawn back to her circle of old school friends; and when a tragic event drags the past into the present, she is forced to figure out who she can trust and to face the guilty memories she thought she’d left behind.

For me Facebook is a way of connecting with people with whom I'd otherwise wouldn't be able to keep in touch, like some of my school mates, or friends who live abroad. I thought this was done very well, the two stories unraveling at the same time, both of them kept me on the edge and kept me trying to figure this all out (and I never did). Adult Louise is dealing with what it means to have a dead girl that she felt responsible for popping back up in her life. Her entire adult life, Louise has known if the truth ever came out, she could stand to lose everything. We all found the social media aspect of this novel quite clever and it added a scary and spine tingly feeling for us as we read this story.

I won’t say what they are because I don’t want to give spoilers, but I like that I can learn things even from fiction books. When our main character, Louise receives a heart-stopping Facebook “friend request” from a former school friend that died 25 years ago it quickly brings out some long-buried memories and some dark secrets that could change everything for her in the present. Thanks to Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for giving me the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review. She grew up in Wiltshire, studied English at the University of Sussex and currently lives in Kent with her family. My only problem was the first half alternates between the past and the present almost chapter to chapter.

Now, many of us probably don't have to worry about dead old classmates coming back to life to haunt us, but it makes an excellent story in a book. I think many of us have been bullied before, but not to the degree displayed in this book (hopefully). Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books.

The ending of the book, the truth of what happened that night was something that I did not suspect until the very last moment before it was revealed.