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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
Well, I literally just read this whole book in one sitting. I loved the whole dynamic and the back and forth between Tessa and Eric. The author really knew how to build up suspense and kept me on the edge the whole time. Between the twitter threads and the police transcripts, I didn't want to put this book down! I'm glad I read this one. Tessa and Eric are very interesting characters.
But seriously...that ENDING! Way to leave me hanging! I need book 2 immediately.
But seriously...that ENDING! Way to leave me hanging! I need book 2 immediately.
I really liked that this book highlights the dangers of social media and how anyone can be a fake. I also liked the characters.
BUT
the celebrity falling in love with the fan is massively unrealistic and had me rolling my eyes. Also for a girl worried about being stalked she quickly fell into the routine of messaging someone she had never met.
The ending pissed me off whyyyyyyyyy??? I thought yep cut it off everything was nice but nope they had to end on a massive cliff hanger and now I will have to read the next book.
BUT
the celebrity falling in love with the fan is massively unrealistic and had me rolling my eyes. Also for a girl worried about being stalked she quickly fell into the routine of messaging someone she had never met.
The ending pissed me off whyyyyyyyyy??? I thought yep cut it off everything was nice but nope they had to end on a massive cliff hanger and now I will have to read the next book.
A story about two Twitter accounts who fell in love over DM? Not quite, but it's definitely a compelling teaser.
If you're expecting your typical YA millenial fairytale about two people who find love online or a famous person who falls in love with a fan...well, you get that and more. Because while this is a love story, it is also about fanatism, stalking, paranoia, mental illness, loneliness and a few other important issues.
I think it is a well-balanced book. It has elements of romance, humor, serious stuff and some suspense too. It has two compelling main characters who are so relatable it isn't funny.
And while it isn't the Catfish episode to end all Catfish episodes, it does feature the plot twist to end all plot twists.
I have my theories about that ending. After all, at least one Twitter account wasn't accounted for. But I can't wait to find out if I'm correct!
If you're expecting your typical YA millenial fairytale about two people who find love online or a famous person who falls in love with a fan...well, you get that and more. Because while this is a love story, it is also about fanatism, stalking, paranoia, mental illness, loneliness and a few other important issues.
I think it is a well-balanced book. It has elements of romance, humor, serious stuff and some suspense too. It has two compelling main characters who are so relatable it isn't funny.
And while it isn't the Catfish episode to end all Catfish episodes, it does feature the plot twist to end all plot twists.
I have my theories about that ending. After all, at least one Twitter account wasn't accounted for. But I can't wait to find out if I'm correct!
Read like a Lifetime movie. Did not appreciate the ending. Guess not wrapping everything up allows for a sequel.
Teen celebrity Eric Thorn is constantly on edge after another celebrity was murdered by a crazed fan. He's worried the same thing will happen to him, and he feels forced by his producers, manager, and record label into being a teen heartthrob who constantly takes his shirt off. All he wants is to live a normal life.
After a terrifying experience a few months earlier, Tessa Hart has developed severe agoraphobia and won't leave her house. She spends the majority of her time in her room, obsessing over Eric Thorn. After she writes a fan fiction story about Eric that goes viral, Tessa is now "internet famous" with Eric's fan base.
When Eric decides to create a fake twitter account under the name of Taylor to troll his fans in hopes that they'll realize he isn't that great and leave him alone, he ends up messaging Tessa and what starts as a harassing message to her ends in a friendship...until feelings start to develop. When Tessa and "Taylor" agree to finally meet, Eric can't wait to reveal to Tessa who he really is. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and what should have been an exciting meeting ends up being more dangerous than either of them could have predicted...
Told partly through a series of tweets and police interviews, Follow Me Back is a young adult thriller that will leave you questioning everything by the end.
I have to say, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would when I first started reading it. In the first third or so of the book, I found Eric incredibly whiny and ungrateful, and it made the chapters in his point of view super hard to read. His thought process seemed to weird to me...creating a fake twitter profile to talk badly about himself? I can't imagine any celebrity doing that in real life, but who knows. While I understand he was concerned for his safety after what happened to a different celebrity, it seemed like he took his reactions to the extreme, and that made him unlikeable...at first.
After I got over the initial disbelief of the fake twitter account thing and kept reading, I grew to like Eric as his relationship with Tessa deepened and we got to see a better side of him. He was able to open up to Tessa in a way he doesn't open up to anyone else, and she brought out the best in him, so instead of constantly whining or complaining about his life, we found him smiling when talking to Tessa, and I liked that.
For the most part, I liked Tessa, but found some of her reactions a little extreme too. The entire time she was talking to "Taylor" she assumed she was talking to a girl, without ever asking or clarifying, and when she found out Taylor was actually a man, she freaked out because she felt misled. Nothing in their message exchanges made an effort to hide or trick her into thinking Taylor was a girl, so her reaction bothered me. Eventually she got over it, but I felt like that was an overreaction on her part.
The book really picked up at the end, and some of the pieces finally came together about what happened in Tessa's past, and the last page left me totally shocked. The book did leave off on a cliffhanger, and the sequel isn't slated to come out until sometime in 2018, and I can't wait! If the sequel had already been out, I would have started reading it immediately. I have so many unanswered questions, and I imagine they'll get answered in book two.
Overall, if you like YA and you like light thrillers, this may be a good choice for you. It's fast paced, and definitely reads like a YA book. This was a 4 star read for me. Thank you to Netgalley, A.V. Geiger, and Sourcebooks Fire for an advanced copy of the book. It was my pleasure to provide an honest review. Follow Me Back comes out June 6, 2017, so be sure to mark your calendars!
After a terrifying experience a few months earlier, Tessa Hart has developed severe agoraphobia and won't leave her house. She spends the majority of her time in her room, obsessing over Eric Thorn. After she writes a fan fiction story about Eric that goes viral, Tessa is now "internet famous" with Eric's fan base.
When Eric decides to create a fake twitter account under the name of Taylor to troll his fans in hopes that they'll realize he isn't that great and leave him alone, he ends up messaging Tessa and what starts as a harassing message to her ends in a friendship...until feelings start to develop. When Tessa and "Taylor" agree to finally meet, Eric can't wait to reveal to Tessa who he really is. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and what should have been an exciting meeting ends up being more dangerous than either of them could have predicted...
Told partly through a series of tweets and police interviews, Follow Me Back is a young adult thriller that will leave you questioning everything by the end.
I have to say, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would when I first started reading it. In the first third or so of the book, I found Eric incredibly whiny and ungrateful, and it made the chapters in his point of view super hard to read. His thought process seemed to weird to me...creating a fake twitter profile to talk badly about himself? I can't imagine any celebrity doing that in real life, but who knows. While I understand he was concerned for his safety after what happened to a different celebrity, it seemed like he took his reactions to the extreme, and that made him unlikeable...at first.
After I got over the initial disbelief of the fake twitter account thing and kept reading, I grew to like Eric as his relationship with Tessa deepened and we got to see a better side of him. He was able to open up to Tessa in a way he doesn't open up to anyone else, and she brought out the best in him, so instead of constantly whining or complaining about his life, we found him smiling when talking to Tessa, and I liked that.
For the most part, I liked Tessa, but found some of her reactions a little extreme too. The entire time she was talking to "Taylor" she assumed she was talking to a girl, without ever asking or clarifying, and when she found out Taylor was actually a man, she freaked out because she felt misled. Nothing in their message exchanges made an effort to hide or trick her into thinking Taylor was a girl, so her reaction bothered me. Eventually she got over it, but I felt like that was an overreaction on her part.
The book really picked up at the end, and some of the pieces finally came together about what happened in Tessa's past, and the last page left me totally shocked. The book did leave off on a cliffhanger, and the sequel isn't slated to come out until sometime in 2018, and I can't wait! If the sequel had already been out, I would have started reading it immediately. I have so many unanswered questions, and I imagine they'll get answered in book two.
Overall, if you like YA and you like light thrillers, this may be a good choice for you. It's fast paced, and definitely reads like a YA book. This was a 4 star read for me. Thank you to Netgalley, A.V. Geiger, and Sourcebooks Fire for an advanced copy of the book. It was my pleasure to provide an honest review. Follow Me Back comes out June 6, 2017, so be sure to mark your calendars!
I picked up the arc of this book last year and only got to it now because I wanted some creepy (Halloween) vibes, so I thought a book about a stalker would do the trick!
I really didn’t know much about this book going in but overall I enjoyed it! I listened to the audiobook and I truly felt on the edge of my seat at times! There were some problems with side characters not being fleshed out (and thus came off as the worst people in existence). This was particularly true for the mother and boyfriend, Scott. They were insufferable, and treated the MC terrible because of the trauma and anxiety she had in the book and I didn’t like it. I feel if those characters had more substance (most of their characterization is through telling, but we are are never told why they are acting like tools) I could have understood their POVs on Tessa’s situation. Instead they came off as uneducated on mental health and ignorant (I definitely know there are people in the world like this, but two in one book was too much for me!)
I thought the plot was decently paced. I wish the stalker portion was a bit more fleshed out but the internet culture was definitely on point!
Overall, would recommend!
4/5 stars! 🙂
I really didn’t know much about this book going in but overall I enjoyed it! I listened to the audiobook and I truly felt on the edge of my seat at times! There were some problems with side characters not being fleshed out (and thus came off as the worst people in existence). This was particularly true for the mother and boyfriend, Scott. They were insufferable, and treated the MC terrible because of the trauma and anxiety she had in the book and I didn’t like it. I feel if those characters had more substance (most of their characterization is through telling, but we are are never told why they are acting like tools) I could have understood their POVs on Tessa’s situation. Instead they came off as uneducated on mental health and ignorant (I definitely know there are people in the world like this, but two in one book was too much for me!)
I thought the plot was decently paced. I wish the stalker portion was a bit more fleshed out but the internet culture was definitely on point!
Overall, would recommend!
4/5 stars! 🙂
A wonderful part epistolary, part standard fiction, using DMs and tweets to pull the story together. We skip from the present to the past very cleverly with the use of police statements to bring us a little insight.
Eric Thorn is a famous musician who is finding fame not as exciting as he had hoped and absolutely detests the lack of privacy that accompanies it.
Tessa Hart is severely agoraphobic and communicates with the outside world via twitter. Tessa Hart hearts Eric Thorn.
Pushed by his annoying manager, Eric Thorn opens up a dialogue with Tessa.
Oh, but that's not all. There are twists and turns and homicidal fans and annoying boyfriends and a mother who is living on the brink.
This book covers so many things - romance, thriller, detective, fame - but in a very clever way, so it sin't too scary or syrupy or challenging. It will get you thinking, but not too hard.
Eric Thorn is a famous musician who is finding fame not as exciting as he had hoped and absolutely detests the lack of privacy that accompanies it.
Tessa Hart is severely agoraphobic and communicates with the outside world via twitter. Tessa Hart hearts Eric Thorn.
Pushed by his annoying manager, Eric Thorn opens up a dialogue with Tessa.
Oh, but that's not all. There are twists and turns and homicidal fans and annoying boyfriends and a mother who is living on the brink.
This book covers so many things - romance, thriller, detective, fame - but in a very clever way, so it sin't too scary or syrupy or challenging. It will get you thinking, but not too hard.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book deserves more than 5 stars. It's rare when you come across a book that consumes you right out of the gate. This book was a complete roller coaster. It is giving me the biggest book hangover right now and I don't know what to do about it. My mind is spinning about the way it ended and the way that this story will move forward. There is so much meat to this story. It's about first loves, addiction, accepting ones flaws, childhoods gone wrong, trust and placing trust where it doesn't belong. You absolutely can't NOT fall in love with Kason and Adaline. I felt everything about their relationship and they just spun me right into their web. I felt edgy while reading this like at any moment the rug was going to be pulled out from under me. I don't know what to do with myself right now and the thought that I have to wait to find out how this concludes... Well, I don't know if I'm going to make it. I need Part 2 like RIGHT NOW. Get this book. You don't want to miss out on this one.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hmmm. really ruined it w that ending.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Stalking